Line MAT Structures – TouchDesigner Tutorial 20

In this TouchDesigner tutorial, we use the Line material in two simple but very useful examples.

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00:00 Intro / Overview
01:00 Part I - Setup
04:12 Part I - Basic Shapes
05:30 Part I - Noise, Fractal and animation
09:34 Part II - Setup
11:50 Part II - Line MAT options
15:40 Outro
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[HarisCupina]

Today I took time (8h) and followed your Tutorial extensively Bileam, it was a success story, all trough until the very end. Results I achieved - are beyond what I imagined. Touch Designer is the way to go. Bileam Tschepe thank you for your effort, it will be reworded soon enough !

[paxk.]

wow, the grasslandy grid is really cool. Thank you so much for that one and your excellent teaching 🙏😊

[afrosymphony]

Thats it, i'm finally ready to download and dive into touch designer, THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[enidlee]

really really thank you for your tutorial,  
I started to self-learned TD currently n your videos help a lot 🌷

[ruanth]

thanks so much for this short and sweet lesson, learn so much from your videos! please keep them up

[zhuoranli]

Really appreciate your tutorials, your tutorials are so incredible

[WaterSignss]

Thank you so much. You are an absolute hero!

[knast]

Thank you for yet another fantastic tutorial!

[AgustinDavidF]

Really nice and "simple" kind of TRON visuals. Thank you! New subscriber here :)

[eggmary]

Thank you.I've learned a lot from you.

[ashwin]

Adding audio to this would be cool audio reactive line art

[stevechant]

I’m having an issue with adding the line MAT op. When first added I cannot see a torus rendered, and after fiddling around with the parameters, I still cannot see any lines rendered. Drawing points does work. Anyone know what the issue might be? I’m running on a fairly old machine (MacBook, 2013) and the non-commercial license.

Edit: dug through the forums a little bit and discovered that there seems to be an issue with rendering the line mat on macOS machines running intel graphics. If anyone else runs into the problem, that seems to be the reason.

[unveil]

nice i ll try to make some hairs ... will be cool to controll the normal position with some forces!!! i think will run smooth with this line MAT .... :-)

[bensimmons]

Awesome video! Is there an operator that I could use to pull the structure into a specific shape for a moment, the release it? I am new to touch designer and haven't been able to figure it out.

[enneagramma]

how i can sync audio into the line mat?
also great video thx ♥

[Harsh-lsin]

Your tutorials are great!!!
But one major problem for me is that I couldn't figure out how to export those videos/gifs/images as they look while making them. You have tutorial on exporting too but it wasn't helpful to me as it shows different ways which sometimes are not used in the making. I wish you show how to export things in each video. It will be great help to me in understanding it in better way.

[jarydfarah]

I love your tutorials man and I wanted so badly to try this one, my line MAT appears to make the geo vanish. I do exactly how you did it and it always vanished and I just have a black screen

[martinnagy]

Hi!
Thx for the tutorial, i really enjoyed the playing with the touchdesigner.
Can you tell me what shape can still be used instead of a sphere?

[bellsbells]

Hi! Thank you for this tutorial. I have a question..I've just got into touchdesigner and kinect. How do I make the first design reactive to movement? I have a kinect but I haven't figured how to connect kinect and the first design together. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!

[nicolasorellana]

Is it possible to make the first form respond to music input? If it is could you make a video about it please!!!