FNSTools by Function Store

Documentation

Every package that ships with FNSTools. Each tool installs on its own, so each one is documented on its own.

Core

FNS_ConfigRegistry Settings persistence registry: one aggregated JSON in the user palette, so preferences follow you across projects and survive updates. The raw master, promoted to /sys. FNS_Console The toolkit's web front, served from inside your project: every tool's settings on one page, the install picker, and any tab a tool contributes. The raw master, promoted to /sys. FNS_Hub The FNS button in TouchDesigner's main-menu bar and the one-stop manager window behind it: the Toolbar, Navbar and Main Menu configurators as tabs, the console, and any tab a tool contributes. Drop a panel COMP on the button to register it into a surface. FNS_HubRegistry The registry behind FNS_Hub's tab bar: tools contribute native panels, viewers or parameter pages as hub tabs. The raw master, promoted to /sys. FNS_MainMenuRegistry TD main-menu surface registry, including project-name display. The raw master, promoted to /sys. FNS_NavbarRegistry The pane-bar surface registry. The raw master, promoted to /sys -- clone it to add your own pane-bar widgets. FNS_OpMenuRegistry OP Create dialog surface registry: search words, row decorations, right-click items, filter stages. The raw master, promoted to /sys. FNS_PaletteRegistry Contribute tabs to TouchDesigner's Palette Browser: a tool publishes a native panel COMP and it appears beside the stock Palette tab, sized to the slot and notified on every tab change. FNS_PaneTypeRegistry Named, persistent pane-type entries for TD's panebar: any COMP can appear in the pane-type dropdown and be recalled with configurable owner, type, window actions and callbacks. FNS_TimelineRegistry Publish a widget into TouchDesigner's timeline bar: transport controls beside the stock ones, an entry on the time-properties block, or a full-width strip in the frame-ruler band that gets its own row. FNS_ToolbarRegistry The toolbar surface registry and mirror rail. The raw master, promoted to /sys -- clone it to put your own tools on the bar.

Surfaces

BorderlessTD Borderless TouchDesigner window, plus timeline hiding. ColorUI Operator and family colour palettes, with the active palette roaming through config. FNS_Navbar Pane-bar extras: parent-hierarchy navigation, path injection and drag-drop hijack, plus the navbar Configurator. FNS_OpMenu OP Create dialog extras: the IO filter, operator search words and script injection. FNS_Toolbar Toolbar extras: the Configurator UI for ordering, grouping and hiding bar widgets, plus stock widgets.

Parameters

CustomParTools Promote parameters to a parent with binds or expressions, customize name/label/range on drop, plus extension creation, parent shortcuts, parameter clearing and IOP promotion. Also carries four stock-TouchDesigner shortcuts for opening parameters and the COMP editor. ExprHotStrings Abbreviations that expand into TouchDesigner expressions as you type in a parameter field. ParOPDrop Create Parameter CHOP/DAT and Parameter Execute DAT nodes inside a COMP from its custom parameters, by drag and drop or hotkey. ParRandomizer Randomize parameter values within range, for quick exploration.

Network

AltSelect Alternative selection helpers for operators in the network editor. AutoCombine Hold Alt while placing a generator TOP to have it come in pre-set to composite over its input. OpTemplates A library of preconfigured operator templates to drop into a network. OpToClipboard Copy the selected operator's reference to the system clipboard, ready to paste into an expression. paste_from_clipboard Paste images and data from the system clipboard into TouchDesigner. QuickCollapse Collapse a selection into a component, with an optional customize dialog. QuickMarks Bookmark network locations and jump back to them. Bookmarks stay project-local by design. SwapOps Swap one operator for another while keeping connections intact. SwitchOPs Switch between operators in place.

Media & Output

AutoRes Project-wide resolution reference that operators can follow instead of hardcoding pixel sizes. FNS_TimelineToolsPlus Drive the timeline from your media: pick a movie and an audio file, optionally resize the timeline to fit, and see them behind the ruler and the Keyframer graph as a filmstrip and a waveform. GlobalOutSelect Browse Global OP Shortcuts and the out operators inside them in a tree, and drag any of them into a network as a Select. GlobalVolControl Global audio volume control. HydroHomie A toolbar reminder to drink water at an interval you set. Off by default. OUTPUT Output window and display routing helpers.

Control

midiMapper Map MIDI controls to parameters, with a learn mode you drive by dropping a parameter on the toolbar button. Mappings are saved into the project folder by design; the tool's own settings roam through config. oscMapper Map OSC messages to parameters. Mappings are saved into the project folder by design. SetSmoothness Set Input/Viewer Smoothness on selected TOPs, or on every TOP in the network.

Workflow

FNS_HotkeyManager Unified hotkey discovery, conflict detection and rebinding UI across the whole toolkit. MISC Assorted small utilities that ship together (hog CHOP, mouse input and friends). QuickPane Pane layout shortcuts. QuickTime Timeline and time-related shortcuts. ResetPLS1 Reset stateful operators (feedback, cache, timers, counts) across the project, with a pattern-based exception list. Bound to ctrl+0. TDX_SearchPalette Search field for TouchDesigner's palette browser, installed into the palette on startup. Vendored TD-SearchPalette by Yea Chen.

Developer

FNS_CommandKit Drop-in kit that lets ANY component publish quick-launch commands to the TDXL launcher palette — decorate a promoted method, or declare a spec. Guarded: with no launcher in the session nothing happens and nothing errors. FNS_ConfigHost A standalone FNS_ConfigRegistry host. Drop it into a component to give it roaming settings — its parameters save and reload with your config, with per-parameter and per-page exclusions. FNS_Updater In-place toolkit updates, with settings preserved across the replacement. OpenExt Open an operator's extension source quickly. VSCodeTools VS Code integration: open externalized scripts, sync files and generate TouchDesigner type stubs.