Free TouchDesigner projects (.toe) and components (.tox) from Derivative, course teachers and the community: audio-reactive visuals, GLSL, particles and POPs, projection mapping, VJ setups and Kinect or MIDI control.
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jpkelly shares TDXvCon, a batch video transcoder built in TouchDesigner, in the Derivative community Asset section. The transcoder.toe project runs a Movie File In TOP into a Movie File Out TOP so encoding happens on…
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mylesjaeger shares TurgorSystem as a free .tox file in the Derivative community Asset section. The component simulates cells that are internally pressurized and press against their neighbors until they fill the space…
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mylesjaeger shares Generative Metaball Tangency as a free .tox file in the Derivative community Asset section. The component uses GLSL to generate a network of circular blobs that snap onto a hidden grid and grow into…
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aliu292 shares a quick Color Picker component in the Derivative community Asset section. It is made to get a specific color from a TOP input, and in an active viewer the mouse-over RGB values display on the viewer…
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Tender World shares Gaia Stellar, an audiovisual piece in which each sphere represents a known star. The post explains that a minimal set of stars within a limited magnitude range was downloaded from the HYG database…
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Artcraft shares Grid POP LOD in the Derivative community Asset section, a geometry-clipmap style LOD plane with dense tessellation near the camera and coarse tessellation far away.
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sonomika offers SonomikaTD, a free VJ tool built in TouchDesigner that loads as a regular .toe file. Videos and TOX effects are dragged onto a layer-and-column grid, each cell can stack its own effects, and up to 32…
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cacheflowe shares TdHttpApi.tox, an HTTP bridge that gives AI agents autonomous read/write access to a running TouchDesigner project, in the Derivative community Asset section.
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qo84531342 shares Gestation, a real-time generative digital lifeform experiment, as an open TouchDesigner project in the Derivative community Asset section.
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Atsushi Tadokoro (tado) of Tokyo University of the Arts publishes tdexamples, the TouchDesigner files for his course 'Media Art Programming I', updated in July 2026.
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alison rc, a Paris-based new media artist, shares protocole_modulaire.toe, an experimental open-source interface built entirely in TouchDesigner for generative visual work.
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Stanislav Glazov (exsstas) shares a real-time diffuse lighting toolkit for TouchDesigner based on L2 spherical harmonics, which stores incoming light as 27 numbers per probe in a 3D world-space grid.
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nicholaspjm shares a small notes tool for TouchDesigner as two components: notesTD.tox, a web-based version, and notesTDLite.tox, a lite version built from TouchDesigner's own UI components.
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Ruben Papacci shares Panini.tox, a custom TouchDesigner component that turns a cube map into a Panini projection. The tutorial first revisits rendering basics such as the FOV slider, fish-eye, cube map and…
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Bryan Chung of HKBU's Academy of Visual Arts maintains this teaching repository on using Python libraries inside TouchDesigner, updated in May 2026.
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Derivative publishes CurriculumExamples, the official example files behind the TouchDesigner Curriculum at learn.derivative.ca, updated in May 2026.
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nicholaspjm releases version 4 of his custom blob tracker for TouchDesigner for free. The public Patreon post holds the component, blobTracker v4.01.tox, and an example project, blob tracker v4.51.toe.
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Artcraft shares 4D GLSL Noise in the Derivative community Asset section: a single .tox containing 16 procedural noise types that all run in true 4D.
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Theo_Rosemffet shares two .tox components in the Derivative community Asset section that recreate the famous Droste Effect and Infinite Regression with GLSL.
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imihailidis shares last beat standing in the Derivative community Asset section, a real-time beat tracking component for TouchDesigner that uses LSTM neural networks and a Dynamic Bayesian Network beat tracker.
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THETOUCHLAB shares TLSTRUDEL in the Derivative community Asset section, a component that runs Strudel inside TouchDesigner out of the box with no installation and no OSC bridge.
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Skywalker.Visuals shares Audio Analysis 2.0 Extended in the Derivative community Asset section as a suite of TouchDesigner components that works downstream of the default audioAnalysis tool from the palette.
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Black Pomeranian built this complete VJ system in TouchDesigner 2025.32050 and shares it free on GitHub, with a Japanese write-up on note.com explaining its structure.
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Samo, who posts as roguesamo, shares RSM, a monitoring-system piece that the video frames as something that watches its surroundings.
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Samo shares the TouchDesigner file behind his short Edge Tutorial video. The download is Rogue Edge .toe, attached to a free Christmas post on his public Patreon page that embeds the video.
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Tender World shares the TouchDesigner patch behind Yellow On Stones, an audiovisual piece set to a track of the same name that is linked on SoundCloud.
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caro villeneuve shares a starter file for splitting audio into frequency bands so that each band drives a different visual layer.
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GabPelland shares Cuelist Sequencer in the Derivative community Asset section, a generic cue-sequencer COMP for managing presets or lighting cues.
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caro villeneuve shows how to make a quick network with the Ray POP operator in a short TouchDesigner tutorial. The project file, rayPOP.toe, was made in TouchDesigner 2025.31740, a build that includes POPs.
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offlineartisan shares a set of toxes in the Derivative community Asset section that make it easy to use the OKLCh color space in TouchDesigner.
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Chaosandlogic shares UberRamp in the Derivative community Asset section, a GLSL TOP that generates rich 2D and 3D procedural patterns with up to three texture inputs: two color ramps and an optional control map.
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GitHub user patrickhartono shares TD-EduPack, a collection of beginner-friendly TouchDesigner modules first made for first-year design students at RMIT Vietnam who are new to node-based systems.
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tormozgh shares Post Process Volume in the Derivative community Asset section, a custom tool that applies visual effects to a defined region of a 3D environment, inspired by Unreal Engine's Post Process Volume.
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harveymoon shares Pop Truss in the Derivative community Asset section, described as a parametric stage truss in the 12-inch standard.
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anya maryina's Bus Seat tutorial project recreates the busy generative fabric patterns found on bus seats using TouchDesigner instancing.
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Derivative documents the Dome Viewer palette component, which previsualises dome-specific content and can generate a dome shell in POPs, and credits it to Fred Trétout's InsideDome.
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GRNCH shares PoST in the Derivative community Asset section as an end-of-chain post-processing component that brings color grading and finishing tools into a TouchDesigner workflow.
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Pablo Torri shares the project file from his VHS Animals tutorial, saved in TouchDesigner Build 2023.12370. The public Patreon post holds VHS Animals.toe together with the Black Shiba Inu .fbx model by elkiotbear that…
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GabPelland shares the LaunchControlXL Utility in the Derivative community Asset section, a component that simplifies the MIDI mapping process for the Novation LaunchControl XL.
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Samo shares LIVE.toe, the TouchDesigner project file behind his Live Tracking/Tracing video. The video title marks the project file as a free download.
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Blake Marques Carrington's 'MediaPipe in TouchDesigner' tutorial comes with its example .toe hosted on GitHub. The video covers getting started with the free MediaPipe plugin, including the face and hand tracking toxes…
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Pablo Torri shares the project file from his LED Fragmentation tutorial video. The download is LED Fragmentation.toe, a small .toe saved in TouchDesigner Build 2023.12370.
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supermarket_sallad and VJ BunBun share okVJ, a toolkit of TouchDesigner components they use to build live shows, released under the MIT license.
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Pablo Torri shares the TouchDesigner project file from his Spectral Audio Reactive tutorial video. The download is a single .toe file, Spectral Audio Reactive.toe, built in TouchDesigner Build 2023.12370.
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INFRA (theinfranet) shares the TouchDesigner Fulldome Simulator, a lightweight component that wraps any 2D or 3D visual onto a virtual dome to preview how it deforms in a real fulldome environment.
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Samo shares the TouchDesigner file from his Metallic + Overlay video, which the title marks as a free project download. The file is Metallic .toe, attached to a public Patreon post titled FREE FILE that embeds the video.
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ETCH-01 shares Presentation_TD in the Derivative community Asset section, a simple tool for handling presentations inside TouchDesigner.
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Pablo Torri shares ParticleWhale.toe, the project file from his Particle Whale tutorial, saved in TouchDesigner Build 2023.12370.
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Pablo Torri shares BioCloud Tree.toe, the project file from his BioCloud Tree tutorial, saved in TouchDesigner Build 2023.12370.
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Compilervisuals shares this project breakdown on derivative.ca for artists who want to get started with DMX and LED control.
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Pablo Torri shares Alphabet Soup, a TouchDesigner study in which little letters dance across the screen. The description calls it friendly for beginners, with clean and helpful notes and no code, scripts or complex…
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Dario Pagliaricci shares about 130 Shadertoy GLSL shaders that he ported and adapted to TouchDesigner, each in its own folder with the .toe file and the textures it needs.
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Derivative distributes the official POPs Examples Package for TouchDesigner's Point Operators, the GPU-based geometry family introduced with the 2025 Experimental builds.
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Tender World shares a simple synthesizer made entirely in TouchDesigner for visual artists who want to explore sound. The tutorial walks through the synth's structure, its step sequencer, the sound controls and how to…
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Tim Gerritsen (y=f(x) lab) shares yfxVLight in the Derivative community Asset section, a component that renders volumetric cone lights, which the post notes are especially useful for rendering pre-visualizers.
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macS shares EnhancedBlobTrackV2.tox, a TouchDesigner component that tracks an unlimited number of blobs even on the free licence.
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David Braun (DBraun) shares TouchDesigner_Shared, a GitHub collection of 30 .toe 'Starters' and 107 utility .tox files, updated in April 2025.
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Skywalker.Visuals shares Strobber Tox in the Derivative community Asset section, a set of components inspired by club visual strobe effects.
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paketa12 shares the fluid simulation system presented on day two of the TouchDesigner meetup in Berlin in May 2024 as a project file in the Derivative community Asset section.
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Derivative's documentation page for the Sync In and Sync Out CHOPs explains how several TouchDesigner processes keep their timelines within a single frame of each other, with non-realtime clients paced by the server.
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