Depth Anything TouchDesigner Tutorial
In this tutorial, we'll dive into Torin's new DepthAnything plugin for TouchDesigner—a drop-in .tox that turns any webcam or TOP into a real-time depth map (no extra installs or special hardware) for Mac + PC. We’ll explore instanced visuals with trails, experiment with occlusion, and set up high-quality depth exports. We'll also show how to integrate the plugin with Josef Pelz’s PCR point-cloud renderer tool, and Prismatic's screen-space depth rendering tool for rim lights and material controls.
🔗 DepthAnything Component (.tox) / Full Project (Patreon) – https://www.patreon.com/posts/depthanything-140120766
📌 Resources & Links
🔗 Josef Pelz – PCR Point Cloud Renderer (Patreon) – https://www.patreon.com/collection/1521576
🔗 Prismatic – SSDR (Patreon) – https://www.patreon.com/posts/tox-screen-space-138369954
🔗 Dean Cheesman – TD Depth Point-Cloud Tutorial (POPs / Experimental) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSK0hGhGOUs
🔗 PJ Visuals / Nick Marriott (NIN) –https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnMyroAH0rg
Thanks for all your support, and I'm looking forward to seeing what you all create!
Comments (9)
May I ask why, after using Depth Anything, I’m unable to overlay colored layers on top of the resulting image?
Hi man, great work! Are you planning to make one for Anydepth V3 as well soon?
did anyone succed in exporting the depth map for a movie without lacking frames? or as a img sequence using the python expression? the tutorial is cut off at this part, and i dont know how to use the code. I watched this tutorian for the img sequence setup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIDMulbuWAg, which was really helpful but it still exports the same image for every frame. i hope someone can help :^)
Hey you need you set your movie file in TOP to ‘specify index’ and the code snippet goes in the index. The goal is to only progress to the next frame once the previous one has been processed and saved to disk
Hi! thanks for the tools! I'm on a windows, latest version of touch (32050), firewall is fully off. I have the toe I'm working with and the depth_anything_small and depth_anything_base toxes in the same folder, im referencing them but I dont know if im doing it properly because: when i go inside the depth_anything container, framerate is 60fps and all is working well, when I go to the main project space outside of the container, framerate drops to 3 and the image keeps disappearing! can this be my referencing or is there any other thing that I should go through?
How do we join the discord?
can't find the tox T.T
This post has three tox attached: https://www.patreon.com/posts/depthanything-140120766
So useful! Thank you for sharing! 🙏