Templates, parameter promotion by drag and drop, MIDI and OSC mapping, network and navigation shortcuts — built to feel like they shipped with TD. Take the whole toolkit, or pick the three tools you actually want.
Nothing to download just to look around: browse every package in the browser, or read a tool's page before you commit to it.
A full walkthrough with the TouchDesigner team on InSession. Recorded on an earlier release — the tools have grown since, but the ideas are the same.
One container goes into your project. You pick the tools from there, and only those get downloaded.
.tox
Drag FNSTools.tox into the root of a project. It is about 150 KB and
arrives empty — the container you drop is where your tools will live.
Already have a toolkit container? Take the bare installer instead (~14 KB).
Or skip the download entirely: build your install in the browser and paste one line into the TouchDesigner Textport.
Pulse Pick Tools and the picker opens inside TouchDesigner. Browse by category, follow any card through to its docs, then review the plan before anything is written to your project.
See the picker →It downloads exactly the packages you ticked, plus the core registries they need, and verifies every file against the release manifest with sha256 before anything is installed.
Nothing else is written. You can also export a selection.json and hand
that to the installer instead of clicking through the picker.
On the very first run it fetches the catalogue before it can show you anything, and says so while it does.
Each package carries its own version, and the updater compares it against the published one. Update the tools you use, leave the rest alone, and keep your settings across the swap.
How updates workPreferences do not live in the project file. They go into one aggregated JSON in your user palette, so the way you set a tool up follows you into the next project — and survives the next update.
MIDI and OSC maps are the deliberate exception: they save into the project folder, so they travel with the show.
Settings are preserved across a package being replaced, not re-entered afterwards. And the registries are promoted masters you can clone, so your own tools can sit on the toolbar, nav bar or OP menu too. How settings persistence works →
Save the project and set it as your startup file in
Preferences → General → Startup File Mode. Every new project then opens
with your tools already in it.
Everything works except the Olib Browser and clipboard image paste. Where the docs
say Alt, press Cmd — exceptions are called out per tool.
Alt-right-click (or Alt-middle-click) any toolbar icon to
open that tool's page on this site. Option on macOS.
Browse all 49 packages by category, read what each one does, and tick the ones you want. You get a single line to paste into the Textport — it installs that selection and nothing else.
There is one. The same page is served from inside TouchDesigner by the installer — nothing leaves your machine there — and hosted here so you can look around before downloading anything.
The web copy hands you a paste line instead of installing directly. That line re-resolves the current release at paste time, so a copied line stays valid.
49 packages, each installing on its own. Core goes in as a unit; everything else is optional. Open a category to see what is inside.
Every package has its own page, and the docs are searchable — open the documentation →
Nearly everything here is MIT and stays that way. A small number of tools unlock when you support the work — through the same installer, the same updater and the same release.
The core registries and nearly every tool in the catalogue.
Unlocked inside TouchDesigner by connecting Patreon or redeeming a licence key.
.tox you might pass on.The toolkit is not the only thing here. Both of these work the same way: a free core, more with support.
What you read matches exactly what you installed — no hunting through one long page for the three tools you picked. Search covers every page.
The toolkit is MIT and free for everyone, including commercial work. If it saves you time, a membership keeps it moving — and unlocks the Plus tools while you are there. The Discord is where bugs get sorted fastest.
Plenty of this toolkit is not mine. These people contributed tools, mods and the habits I picked up from reading their components — please support them.
Plus a great many best practices learned from reading his components.
by AlphaMoonbase.berlinThe palette search bar that is hard to work without once you have it.
by Yea ChenThe OP Create dialog filters — and the software all of this sits on.
by Greg HermanovicPaste an image straight into a network; find operators by their initials.
by DotSimulateBookmark spots in a project and jump straight back to them.
by Alex GuevaraThe people who used all of this while it was still sharp around the edges.
by Acrylicode and kim0sliceFree tools from the community that pair well with this one.
The de-facto free marketplace for TouchDesigner components.
by Wieland Hilker (AlphaMoonbase.berlin)
One .tox, then pick what you need. It is free, and it takes about a minute.