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Lightpath OS × TouchDesigner

Turn any TouchDesigner project into a permanent, operable install. Lightpath OS wraps TouchDesigner in everything a permanent install needs: handoff, a browser UI, scheduling, and monitoring.

The Lightpath OS Plugins view — TouchDesigner .tox system, source, and effect plugins

The split

Who does what.

  • You build only what is unique to your install in TouchDesigner: patterns, outputs, sensor logic.

  • Lightpath OS provides the entire operational layer on top: UI, scheduling, monitoring, content, and access.

The connection

How it works — the .tox contract

  1. 01

    Outputs are destinations

    one .tox per physical endpoint (a pixel-mapped LED form, a projection surface, a video wall over NDI). Lightpath OS routes the composed texture to it and streams it back to the browser.

  2. 02

    Plugins feed the outputs

    Sources (generate texture), Effects (transform texture), System plugins (pull sensor/camera/API data, send control signals).

  3. 03

    Parameters auto-surface

    any param on a page named Look, Config, or Status appears in the web UI. Look = per-look (tuned in the look editor), Config = set once at project level, Status = read-only values that stream into the Devices view and can trigger alerts.

  4. 04

    Real-time

    TouchDesigner streams straight to the browser for live pre-vis; comms run over Socket.IO / an RPC layer.

The Lightpath OS Outputs view side by side with the TouchDesigner node network routing each output .tox

What you get

  • Keep TouchDesigner's full power

    any geometry, any hardware, any sensor.

  • Inherit the operational layer out of the box instead of rebuilding client UI, scheduling, and monitoring every time.

  • Survive the handoff

    a shared, opinionated structure that stays maintainable years later.

  • Author content live in the browser with real-time pre-vis, approachable for people who never open TouchDesigner.

  • Multi-machine rendering plus process supervision and auto-recovery for years of uptime.

  • TouchDesigner is the shared language, so any TD developer is productive on day one.

Proof

“Out of that work came Lightpath, a web-based platform that wraps TouchDesigner in everything a permanent install needs to be handed off, operated, scheduled, monitored, and evolved over its whole lifespan.”
Derivative, in its feature on Lightpath

The Lagunitas Experience was built this way: custom C++ Ouster LiDAR ingest, a system plugin feeding it in, and custom sources generating content in real time.

See it running on TouchDesigner.

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