Operator templates, parameter promotion by drag and drop, MIDI and OSC mapping, network shortcuts and extension helpers — built to feel like they shipped with TD. Take the whole toolkit or pick the three tools you actually want.
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. From there you pick the tools, and only those get downloaded.
.toxDrag the bootstrap container to the root of a project. It is about 150 KB and arrives empty — it carries the installer, the updater and nothing else yet. The container you drop is the install target.
Downloadv2.12.19Already have a toolkit container? Grab the bare installer instead (~14 KB).
Pulse Pick Tools and a picker opens, served from inside TouchDesigner — nothing leaves your machine. Browse by category, read what each tool does, then review the install plan before anything is written.
Browse the catalogueEach 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 workFunctionStore_tools_2025.tox into the root (/) of a project.FNS_Installer inside it, pulse Pick Tools. On the first run it fetches the catalogue and tells you it is doing so.
Make it the default. Save the project and set it as your startup file in
Preferences → General → Startup File Mode, and every new project opens with your tools already in it.
On macOS, everything works except the Olib Browser and clipboard image paste.
Where the docs say Alt, press Cmd — exceptions are called out per tool.
Finding help. Alt-right-click (or Alt-middle-click) any toolbar
icon to open that tool's page on this site. Option on macOS.
Each package ships with its own docs, so what you read matches exactly what you installed — no hunting through one long page for the three tools you picked.
Every package installs on its own. Core goes in as a unit; everything else is optional.
The registries every other tool plugs into. Installed as a unit.
The parts of TouchDesigner you look at all day, made yours.
Promote, bind, randomize and reset — by drag and drop.
Build, swap, collapse and navigate without touching a menu.
Where the picture and the sound actually leave the project.
Hardware in, parameters out.
The small frictions, removed.
Extensions, stubs and the editor you actually write them in.
Preferences 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.
MIT licensed and free for everyone, including commercial work. If the toolkit saves you time, a Patreon follow keeps it moving — and 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)Mission control for TouchDesigner projects — gallery, palette, session control.
by Function StoreMIDI controller mapping without the wiring, if you need more than the built-in mapper.
by Function Store
One .tox, then pick what you need. It is free, and it takes about a minute.