This repository contains, among the ZED official examples, a TouchDesigner TOP operator for skeleton traking for the ZED 2 Camera. The template for the TOP operator comes from TouchDesigner Plugin Template

Install Visual Studio Code community edition

Install CMake

Install the Zed SDK, I have tested it with 3.6.1 and CUDA 11.1.

Clone this repository and follow these instructions to build the examples.

Now in the build folder, you should have all the Zed Official examples ready to run. Open Visual Studio, open the ALL_BUILD solution. Among all the examples, select "body tracking" and set it as starting project (right click and then "set as starting project"). Right click on "build". If there are no error, set the project in Release mode (menu on the top). Run the solution pressing on the play button, if a window opens, and the application is able to detect the a skeleton, your ZED SDK is installed correctly and you can proceed further.

If the previous step works, open Visual Studio(2017) -> File -> Open -> Cmake and open the file "ZedTop/cpp/CMakeList.txt". Press Cmake -> Build all. In Visual Studio 2019, the Cmake menu is not there anymore. Click on the menu Build -> Build all. If you receive a message like "Build all succeed" everything went well.

If there is no "release 64" mode, click on "manage configuration" -> green button + -> Release 64, right click on the header ot the tab, right click save.

Copy the file 'zedTop/cpp/out/CustomTOP.dll' inside your TouchDesigner bin folder(usually C:/Program Files/Derivative/TouchDesigner/bin/).

Now copy to 'C:/Program Files/Derivative/TouchDesigner/bin/' all the files that are in "C:\Program Files (x86)\ZED SDK\bin"

Open TouchDesigner, create a new CplusPlus TOP and as dll give the path 'C:/Program Files/Derivative/TouchDesigner/bin/CustomTOP.dll'

You should be able to perform skeleton traking

Open Visual Studio. Then -> File -> Open -> Cmake and open the file "ZedTop/CMakeList.txt". Make your edits. Click on "Build All". If it builds without any error, copy the file 'zedTop/cpp/out/CustomTOP.dll' inside your TouchDesigner bin folder(usually C:/Program Files/Derivative/TouchDesigner/bin/).

Sometimes, the camera does not turn on, you can see that the blue light on the front of the camera it is not on. In that case, close touchdesigner. Open the Zed Camera Viewer utility and wait until the blue light is on. Open Touch Deisgner, add a CPlusPlus top, as plugin path select C:/Program Files/Derivative/TouchDesigner/bin/CustomTOP.dll