SS24 – TD – 07 – Using CMS to Manage TouchDesigner Installations

Description

June 12th 2024, 6 – 9 PM (UTC+2)
In English Language / Online via Zoom
Recording available for access for one year after purchase

A headless CMS (Content Management System) is a powerful tool for managing different types of content. In this module, developer Wieland Hilker from Berlin will teach you how to use basic web technologies in TouchDesigner. This includes techniques like HTTP requests and websockets. We’ll also explore how a CMS can be used to manage content in TouchDesigner setups.

A headless CMS lets you manage data through a web interface. It can be hosted locally or on a web server. With HTTP requests, we can get or send data according to a custom data structure. This structure defines how data is organised and stored in a database, and how different tables relate to each other. Using a websocket connection, we can get real-time updates about changes to the data and make our TouchDesigner setup respond to them.

In this course, we’ll look at different CMS options. However, we’ll focus on Directus for our examples because it’s easy to use and open source.