Set up MediaPipe plugin (multi-modal)
setup_mediapipe_pluginLoads the MediaPipe engine once to enable face, hand, body, or segmentation pipelines, preventing multiple competing webcam instances.
Instructions
Drop the torinmb mediapipe-touchdesigner ENGINE in one shot and enable any combination of face, hand, body, and segmentation pipelines. Use this instead of running setup_face_tracking + setup_hand_tracking + setup_body_tracking + setup_segmentation separately — those tools each re-load the engine, resulting in multiple competing MediaPipe COMPs fighting for the webcam. This tool loads the engine ONCE and toggles its Face/Hand/Body/Segmentation pars. IMPORTANT: there is NO stock TouchDesigner MediaPipe; all five mediapipe tools (this one + the four setup_*_tracking tools) rely on the free torinmb plugin — install it first with tdmcp install mediapipe-touchdesigner. Output paths for face/hand/body are DATs (JSON landmark streams from the plugin), not CHOPs — use a Script CHOP adapter to convert to numeric channels. The engine requires the TD timeline to be PLAYING (uses an embedded browser for webcam capture).
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| tox_path | No | Override path to the torinmb mediapipe-touchdesigner ENGINE .tox (MediaPipe.tox — the full tracker with webcam capture, NOT the bare pose_tracking.tox or hand_tracking.tox processors). Defaults to the package staged by `tdmcp install mediapipe-touchdesigner`. | |
| enable_body | No | Enable the Body/Pose tracking pipeline inside the engine. | |
| enable_face | No | Enable the Face detection pipeline inside the engine. | |
| enable_hand | No | Enable the Hand tracking pipeline inside the engine. | |
| parent_path | No | Existing COMP to load the engine into. | /project1 |
| container_name | No | Inner baseCOMP name. Matches the default used by setup_body_tracking / setup_hand_tracking so re-running is idempotent (the engine is reused, not duplicated). | MediaPipe |
| source_video_path | No | Optional path to a video file to use as input instead of the live webcam. The engine's Camera/Source/Videofile/File par is probed in that order and the first match is set. | |
| enable_segmentation | No | Enable the Segmentation pipeline (outputs a matte TOP; heavier GPU cost than the landmark pipelines). |