Text Textures - TouchDesigner Tutorial 9

In this tutorial we map text onto a few different SOPs (3D geometry) and combine that with instancing.
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[@yahankoinahi2690]

these are the best touchdesigner tutorials on the internet, great work.

[@elekktronaut]

Wow thank you :)

[@terrorgrimm]

Your tutorials are great!. I do wish you would talk more about what each step is actually doing. It would be really helpful for gaining a deeper understanding of the program. I have been learning a lot from these.

[@Statience]

Loving these videos, and they keep getting better. Thoroughly enjoying this! Great work

[@CarolineReize]

Love it! I had actually been digging into using Text in TD in various ways.

[@antoniasophia62]

Thanks so much for your great tutorials. I find them super clear, helpful and calm, what I appreciate a lot. I also really enjoy your aestethics!

[@GlamorousAgustina]

Me encanto! reviviste mi amor por el touch. LOVE YOU!

[@elekktronaut]

Much love right back :)

[@NikosE99]

Thank you for all your videos! You are keeping the instructions really simple and really easy to follow. Congratulations!

[@Carlos982206]

I'm so glad i find your channel!!! Thanks for sharing!!

[@dinobotti1913]

Another good one !!! thanks for sharing your experiments on TD

[@isaiahisaiahisaiah1]

something im wondering about is how your text is so clear and high resolution compared to mine. im not sure if it has to do with the fact that im running the non-commercial version of touch designer that limits your output resolution?

[@kodaliewfy2391]

Thanks for your great tutorial! If I have different sentences want to show (not only "we are spinning", which steps should I modify or add? It would be helpful if you can answer this question. Thank you very much!

[@VID.VYATKA]

Man it's an awesome !thank you and respect!

[@JoelLaviolette]

Thanks! These are great!

[@vyu1152]

amazing tutorial! always helpful for TD learners like me~~

[@bram_adams]

Using this for a little music video I'm creating, thank you so much!!

[@gcxz3]

Thank you for the great tutorial! There is a problem at about 3:13. Several TouchDesigner version do not have plane, and geo1 give a torus or donut without in and out for rectangle and render. Any hint?

[@ianvsgod]

Amazing job, thank you

[@perimosh]

Love it, thanks.

[@ActiveGeometry]

Beautiful

[@formatformat]

Many thanks, great tutorial! Keep on sharing, please! :)

[@mirkonardecchia]

Awesome tutorial, I have an issue, why can't I attach the null at the back of the Geo1? Am I missing anything? Thanks :)

[@emilylyu5498]

same here

[@ipalmeirastkd]

SAME HERE ! WHY??? PLEASE!

[@ehvie]

I had the same issue! I was able to workaround by just adding another geo from the null itself so it inserts already connected, and then you can just delete the geo1

[@DanielBeecham]

Late reply here but might be useful to people who see this later: It depends on how you create the geo. If you, like in the video, first create a rectangle SOP (or any other sop), then right-click the output on the sop, and then select Geo, you get a version of the Geo which has that input. If you create the Geo by just pressing tab (or double-clicking), you need to go into the Geo, remove the default Torus SOP and replace it with an "In SOP". Don't forget to press the "render" and "display" buttons on the In SOP in the Geo.

[@davidgigon2820]

U can use the AUTO-SIZE FONT option inside the text TOP

[@alextuthill-preus3972]

this ^^^

[@PsyklonAeon]

thank you so much for this awesome tutorials! can you please make a tutorial on wireframe?

[@elekktronaut]

What exactly do you mean?

[@GrigoriiCrab]

Wow, thx fot posting such a content

[@sonomute]

Thanks for the tutorial. I'm trying to recreate the moving tunnel effect, but i choose tz in translate z it creates the tunnel which is static, it doesn't move, forward or backward, nowhere) Bug maybe?

[@elekktronaut]

Hi! apparently that isn't working in the newest version anymore unfortunately. idk why and I hope they'll fix it!

[@sonomute]

@@elekktronaut thanks. At least I'm not the only one, checked everything many times thinking I was missing something somewhere although the setup is pretty simple...

[@o.g.endless.8254]

@@sonomute I tried to check and the problem come from the range value in the math. Instead of -100 to 10 in To Range, I've put something between 0 and -5 and it worked fine.

[@RenzoLi]

how do i make it audio reactive ??

[@anginiotorres8292]

thankkss great teacher

[@riccardoluise8630]

Hi! I'm super engaged by this videos!! Thank you a lot! It would be nice to see what inspires you by making design interacting with something like mouse/webcam/kinect skeleton Also it would be interesting a simple custom-geometry projection mapping Thank you again!

[@elekktronaut]

Hi! Glad to hear you enjoy my videos! I was asked several times for some work with kinect, so I might make some tutorial on that soon.

[@Yoon-h6u]

Hi! It’s awesome tutorial, thanks!! Can I introduce this tutorial in Japanese on my channel? I wanna share to Japanese TD user like me who are not good at English or programming !

[@PabloLucio]

Thanks for the tutorial! I am watching some TD tutorials out there, and I have a question: why do people always attach to the end of Sphere SOP (and other SOPs and TOPs) a Transform SOP/TOP? Even if they don't use them after attaching them. Sometimes, I've also seen this but using Level TOP, people add it at the end but some times never use them. Is there any reason? Thanks again for all of your videos. Really useful!

[@elekktronaut]

You're welcome! It's just so you have more control. It's not necessary but it ensures that you can easily change the size, position etc. (or brightness, contrast etc) later.

[@PabloLucio]

@@elekktronaut I wasn't expecting such a quick answer! What a great channel, thank you very much, man. Let's go for kinetic typography tutorial now!

[@ibnraoof]

Hi I have followed, however, my after adding rectangle to set up geo . the geo will not allow me to attach rear of geo.( closed field) what small step am I missing?

[@elekktronaut]

You need create the geo from the rectangle by right clicking on the rectangle's output and then selecting it.

[@ibnraoof]

@@elekktronaut Thanks.

[@ibnraoof]

when I put Abs times equation in the wave form goes really fast. and I try to adjust it stops completely. (to extremes.)

[@channeltr7611]

Good day, I've great appreciation for your work. I was wondering if this can be achieved with say 30 second video clips, instead of text base off this tutorial ?

[@elekktronaut]

Sure, just change the input from text to Movie File In. Or am I getting your question wrong?

[@mareletudor]

Hello! I’ve been watching your tutorials lately and I find them very useful. Could you look into Delaunay triangulation and maybe make a tutorial ? Thanks

[@valeduran]

Hi, thanks for such an amazing tutorial. In the text TOP I don't know why but it only shows the first letter I'm writing, for example D of Derivative, do you know why this happens?

[@a.f.m.4134]

did you figure this out?

[@valeduran]

@@a.f.m.4134 no

[@ilindytranslate4302]

I can't connect the SOP's null to the geometry, any ideas on why?

[@elekktronaut]

You need to create the null first and then create the geo from the null. Does that help?

[@derekedwards2461]

Hey bileam awesome tutorial! Do you mind if I use your idea in a music video?

[@elekktronaut]

Thanks! no not at all, go ahead :)

[@derekedwards2461]

@@elekktronautThanks! I'll credit you :)

[@justcrea333]

hi the video it's only 360p

[@elekktronaut]

it takes a bit to process, will be in 1080p in a few minutes :)

[@justcrea333]

@@elekktronaut ahah okay thank you great work , regards from italy