⚠ The user documentation can be found at help.tixl.app. To fix or extend it, edit the sources under .help/docs/ in the main repository.

This wiki is for people building TiXL from source.

• Installing the dev build
• Running TiXL from an IDE
• VS Code setup
• Working with git
• TiXL vs Tooll3 - an overview for developers

• Operator conventions - designing and naming operators
• Writing C# operators
• FAQ on building C# operators
• Advanced C# operators
• Ideas for operators - wishlist and proposed breaking changes

• Using RenderDoc
• Debugging the Player
• Integration tests
• Guided feature tests
• Manual testing plan - basic smoke test to check releases for regressions

• Creating release builds
• Updating the home template

• Audio roadmap
• Transform gizmos
• Context variables
• Changing file-path format

• How to contribute
• Coding conventions

Upcoming (every second Monday): 2026-10-05 · 2026-10-19 · 2026-11-02 · 2026-11-16 · 2026-11-30 · 2026-12-14 · 2026-12-28

• 2026-09-21 Output System, Projector Calibration & Compute-Shader Point Ops
• 2026-09-07 Geometry Nodes, Output Board & Supercluster Demo
• 2026-08-24 SDF Text Blending, Particle Lifetimes & Anaglyph Stereo
• 2026-08-10 Drone-Show Choreography, Video Pipeline & Audio Graph
• 2026-07-27 Output Management, Projection Mapping & Custom Point Shaders
• 2026-07-13 Custom Shaders, Custom Mesh Drawing & the 4.2 Release
• 2026-06-29 Particles: Transparency, Sorting & FilterPoints
• 2026-06-15 Per-Parameter Snapshots, FFmpeg Clips, MIDI Recording & DMX Lighting
• 2026-06-01 New Timeline, Spline Editor, Audio Clips & AI Coding
• 2026-05-18 Title missing
• 2026-05-04 Title missing
• 2026-04-20 Controlling scenes and procedural modelling
• 2026-04-06 Title missing
• 2026-03-23 Particles forces and Project Show Cases
• 2026-03-09 Line Numbers and Demo Scenes
• 2026-02-23 Building some Complex Scenes
• 2026-02-09 Title missing
• 2026-01-26 Assets, Mediapipe and SkillQuest
• 2026-01-12 Fun with F1 & F2
• 2025-11-03 Asset Lib and SDF fun
• 2025-10-06 Particle System deep
• 2025-09-22 Particle Effects, Groups operators, TimeClips, Time Scaling, Audio Sync
• 2025-09-08 New features for Roadmap; Operator Style guide; Creating a new op
• 2025-08-25 Timeline, PBR-rendering, particles, field and the future of output configurations

Release notes and announcements from the Tooll3 era:

• v3.9.3 · v3.5 · v3.4
• Better points · Namespace folders · New project name · Berlin workshop