Installation
Get a NativeOps plugin loading in TouchDesigner in under five minutes.
Each plugin ships as a single folder containing the operator DLL and its resource files. TouchDesigner discovers it on startup — there is no installer and nothing touches the registry.
Downloads are signed and versioned per TouchDesigner build line. Grab the
build matching your TouchDesigner version from the
dashboard — a 2025.30000 plugin will refuse to load in a
2023.12000 session.
Install locations
Drop the plugin folder into your user plugin path. TouchDesigner scans it on every launch, and updates don't need admin rights.
%USERPROFILE%/Documents/Derivative/Plugins/PhotonRTXPT/What lands on disk
Verify the install
Restart TouchDesigner. Plugins are scanned once at startup — a running session will not pick up a new folder.
Open the OP Create dialog (double-click the network background). The
operator appears under the Custom tab — Photon RTXPT in this
example.
Drop the operator into a network. Until a seat is activated it cooks in watermark mode — full function, watermarked output. Continue to Activation.
Developing on a laptop and deploying to a media server? Install per-user on the laptop and system-wide on the server — the license seat follows the machine, not the install location.