tdfw 0.1.1

TouchDesigner Framework CLI scaffold tool for opinionated State Driven Command and Control/Code Driven project architecture

tdfw

TouchDesigner Framework CLI scaffold tool with an opinionated slant towards State Driven/Code Driven project architecture.

About

Hi, I'm Michael. I play guitar and write code. I was introduced to TouchDesigner by my friend Andrew Zolty, who's also known as BREAKFAST. He's an incredible kinetic artist.

Getting started with TouchDesigner as a GUI never really happened for me. I started a few YouTube courses on it but didn't have the time to follow through and learn how to use the interface.

But the concept of a network of nodes and subnodes made sense to my programmer/software engineer brain. I thought "there must be a purely code driven way to architect these TouchDesinger apps". So I looked on YouTube and found this video (read more about that in BACKGROUND.md). I was thrilled and what has resulted is essentially this tool which abstracts out all the boilerplate he gives.

How To Use

# Install 
uv pip install tdfw

# Confirm installation and check options
tdfw help

# Start a TouchDesigner App
tdfw start-app <MyFirstApp>

# Create a Python Extension stub (from your TouchDesigner Project Root i.e. the dir with the <MyFirstApp>.toe file)
tdfw create-ext <MyFirstExt>