TDLiDAR — TouchDesigner Operator Family · v1.0.0

Turn an iPhone into ~34 live sensors inside TouchDesigner — motion, LiDAR depth, body / hand / face tracking, audio, camera vision, touch and more — over your local network, with one drag‑and‑drop.

This package is the TouchDesigner half. Get the TDLiDAR app on the iOS App Store for the data source.

Install (one time)

  1. Extract this zip. Keep TDLiDAR_family.tox and the operators/ folder together.
  2. In TouchDesigner, drag TDLiDAR_family.tox into your project. It self‑installs on load — the TDLiDAR tab appears in the OP Create (TAB) menu.
  3. If the operators don’t appear: select the dropped TDLiDAR_fam component, set its Opfolder parameter to this package’s operators/ folder, pulse Ensuremanifests, then toggle the Enable switch.
  4. Save your .toe project.

Zero‑config tip: if you extract operators/ next to your .toe file, the default relative path resolves automatically — nothing to set.

Use

  1. Open the TDLiDAR app on your iPhone → point OSC at your computer’s IP, port 9000 → start streaming.
  2. TAB → TDLiDAR → drop any operator. Each listens on OSC port 9000 and previews its live output on the node tile.
  3. Each operator only wires to its own type (a CHOP op → CHOPs, a TOP op → TOPs, etc.), like native TD.

Troubleshooting “no data”: same Wi‑Fi/LAN, correct IP, port 9000, sensor enabled in the app, firewall allows TouchDesigner. String sensors (Speech, OCR, Sound ID, NFC, QR payload) use an OSC In DAT.

What’s inside

Item What it is
TDLiDAR_family.tox The family component — drag this into TouchDesigner. Self‑bootstraps the TDFam runtime.
operators/ The 34 operator .tox files + manifest.json (per‑op connect‑type metadata).
docs/ Full documentation: README.md, OSC-REFERENCE.md (complete wire spec), and a page per operator in docs/ops/.

Requirements

  • TouchDesigner 2023.30000+ (the 3D operators use POPs).
  • The TDLiDAR iOS app (App Store) streaming on the same network.
  • LiDAR / TrueDepth / iPad+Pencil / Apple Watch are needed only by the operators that use them (each op’s doc page lists its requirement).

Built on the dotsimulate TDFam operator‑family runtime (bundled inside TDLiDAR_family.tox).