Hand Tracking in TouchDesigner with MediaPipe - TouchDesigner Beginner Tutorial

[@3DMVR]

very useful great pacing

[@3DMVR]

prob will figure it out before you answer but how do i grab those points that are sued for hand tracking and draw lines between them like one finger to another.

[@pollyyyyyyy6759]

I have successfully used Mediapipe in real-time applications, but I'm unsure how to apply it to recorded videos. I noticed the use of a web browser in TD, but I'm not sure how to adapt it for recorded video. Apart from that, the hand tracking tutorial has been incredibly helpful. I've been searching for this for a long time! Thaaaaaaanks a lot!

[@blankensmithing]

Glad the hand-tracking has been helpful. Are you trying to pipe a recorded video into MediaPipe to analyze it?

[@pollyyyyyyy6759]

@@blankensmithing Ohhhhhhhh, I get it now! At first I had no idea what "pipe a video” meant, but then I found your earlier video showing how to pipe a video, which is exactly what I’ve been searching for! Learned a new term. Thanks for your reply!!!

[@blankensmithing]

@@pollyyyyyyy6759 yay glad you got it working!

[@WorldWideBasementVibes]

Good stuff, Torin!

[@blankensmithing]

Thanks!!

[@AtelieristaMHP]

thank you for this amazing tutorial, in my case I'm using particlesGPU for one hand to manipulate images. I don't see how to enable several hands of different people in the same time. it only works with one hand at. a time. is there a setting I can change that? thanks

[@liyanahanif5152]

This is so helpful! Are you using a Mac? Can you please do more tutorial using the mediapipe plugin pleaseee?

[@blankensmithing]

Thanks! Yeah I'm on Mac, but this works on Mac and PC. Looking forward to putting out some more tutorials soon!

[@manaaloomerbhoy5264]

so cool, thank you!

[@DrNapalm]

Hello there! Is there a way to detect the left hand (sx) and right hand (dx) separately? At the moment, Mediapipe detects "hand 1" as the first hand it finds, regardless of whether it’s the right or left hand. I need to differentiate this data so I can consistently label "hand 1" as "right hand" (dx) and "hand 2" as "left hand" (sx), for example. This would give me more control, similar to a Kinect (which I can't afford, lol)

[@aa-qb1bt]

Great. How should I input a video that was originally shot vertically into MediaPipe, instead of trimming it vertically? I captured the video using OBS and set the resolution in TouchDesigner to 1080x1920, but the bottom half is covered in black and not displayed properly.

[@rishabhgandhi6869]

Hey, the effect looks amazing! I'm very new to TD, when i do video device in, I can see my webcam but unable to see it in the mediapipe webcam section, any suggestions on how i could fix this?

[@光亮张]

good work

[@HeLevi]

I am doing a face-tracking vfx project right now, your Mediapipe is an actual life saver, but there is an issue that the Mediapipe container node keeps showing the loading animation, how could I fix this? Thanks in advance!!!!

[@danger_design]

"In the common section, set it to the parent panel size" Set *what* to the parent panel size? What parameter am I interacting with? "Set the *output resolution* to the parent panel size" would be the only instructive way to describe what you're doing. I'm really not sure if this deserves to be described as a 'tutorial'.

[@blankensmithing]

thanks for the feedback I’ll try to be clear in the parameters that I describe. seems like from the visual reference you were able to put it together though 😄

[@danger_design]

@@blankensmithing I managed to put together the demonstration, yes. I'm sure that if I did 30 of these in a month, I'd also miss some details here and there.

[@Luigih12]

I tried a lot but cant get it to work. I always get this error: /project1/MediaPipe (Parameter menusource: Webcam) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/project1/MediaPipe", line "tdu.TableMenu(me.findChildren(name='webcam_menu')[0])", My camera works and i can use it with videodevicein