Render TouchDesigner text with obstacle avoidance and GPU-instanced atlas glyphs.
npx skills add https://github.com/GuiGPaP/TD_starter_pack --skill td-pretext
Please help me install this Agent Skill. Skill: td-pretext Source: https://github.com/GuiGPaP/TD_starter_pack/tree/main/.agents/skills/td-pretext Command: npx skills add https://github.com/GuiGPaP/TD_starter_pack --skill td-pretext
Native TouchDesigner text layout is difficult when text must flow around obstacles; this skill provides a complete native pipeline with obstacle avoidance and atlas-generated glyphs to ensure smooth, performant text rendering.
Load the TD Pretext skill in your project and run the provided sample to render obstacle-avoiding, atlas-based text in TouchDesigner.
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To render obstacle-avoiding text in TouchDesigner at 60fps, this skill uses GPU-instanced rendering with GLSL and font atlas metrics. It computes per-character layout to ensure text natively flows around circular or irregular shapes.
GPU-instanced text layout with font atlas generation is a rendering technique that pre-computes glyph metrics into an atlas. This allows per-character layout computation and rendering via GLSL, bypassing CPU bottlenecks for high-performance text displays.
Yes, you can port Pretext.js patterns to native TouchDesigner. This skill encapsulates that workflow, translating Pretext.js-inspired text measurement utilities and layout computation directly into TD native operators and GLSL rendering.
You generate a font atlas and compute text measurement in TouchDesigner using the skill's built-in measurement utilities like evalTextSize. These utilities evaluate text dimensions and output atlas metrics required for per-character rendering.
TouchDesigner does not natively support text flowing around arbitrary shapes without custom setup. This skill provides the necessary obstacle-aware rendering pipeline, applying atlas-based per-character layout to achieve native obstacle avoidance.
Limitations of atlas-based GPU rendering for text layout include the need to pre-generate font atlases for specific sizes and the complexity of handling dynamic font changes. Obstacle avoidance requires per-character layout computation which can be intensive for massive text blocks.
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