touchdesigner-plugin

This touchdesigner plugin is supposed to generate images for a touchdesigner generative video network using ....

Dependencies

Touchdesigner only works on Mac and Windows, this project was built on ARM MacOS. Please download Touchdesigner from the official derivative website and install it.

Currently you have to install rye package manager to build the project until we get a ci/cd pipeline that builds the dist

First please build and install the project globally

rye build
pip install dist/touchdesigner_plugin-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl

Now navigate to the td_workflow folder and open the latest version of the td_workflow project td_workflow.toe.

Development

This project uses rye package manager. It's simple to use just go to the folder

rye sync
rye run python ...

Image Server

Random Image generator

The random image generator is a simple image server that generates images using opencv you can run it using rye since it doesn't have any additional dependencies

cd path/to/StreamDiffusion
export PYTHONPATH=${PWD}
cd path/to/touchdesigner-plugin
cd src
export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:${PWD}


# for reference `echo $PYTHONPATH` should return sth like this
# /home/<user>/workspace/StreamDiffusion:/home/<user>/workspace/touchdesigner-plugin/src
# now run it
cd path/to/touchdesigner_plugin
rye run python src/touchdesigner_plugin/image_server.py

That's it you can now generate colorful images in your techdesigner session.

Stream Diffusion

Installation

To install stream diffusion please follow the instructions on their Github repository. You have to install it independently from the rye packaged project here and run it in a separate virtual environment. I can't say more because it highly depends on your GPU setup.

Run Stream diffusion on server

The stream diffusion is integrated in the stream_diffusion_server.py, please activate your virtual environment and run it and then just start your touchdesigner session and start generating.

# activate virtual env e.g.
source .venv/bin/activate
python src/touchdesigner/stream_diffusion_server.py

That's it you should now be able to use the generate images in touchdesigner.

Port Forwarding

If you want to forward a port from the remote machine to local e.g. port 8188 remote to 8190 local

ssh -L 8190:localhost:8188 <user>@<remote-ip>

Now access it on the local machine under http://localhost:8190

FAQ

If you have issues using rye you can always generate a good old requirements.txt by doing the following

sed '/-e/d' requirements.lock > requirements.txt
# now make python virtualenv e.g.
python3 -m venv .td
source .td/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt