One of the most valuable resource of vvvv is it's community. Over the years many users of vvvv have created amazing contributions and extensions.

On this page we have compiled a "Best Of" list of contributions everyone should be aware of when working on a project. They all will make your patching life easier and will save you from re-inventing the wheel.

If you have any additions or changes, please let us know in the forums.

To browse all user contributions, go here: contributions

Rendering

VR

Projection Mapping

3d Models and Geometry

Video

Computer Vision

Audio

Web

Tracking

Workflow

Scripting

Kinect

Machine Learning

UI

Network

Learning

Rendering

DirectX 11 rendering for vvvv

This contribution is a special one and naturally get's the pole position. It's a fully fledged rendering engine that basically covers the whole DirectX 11 graphics API. In fact, most of the contributions below are based on this one. It contains years of work by master vux and everyone using it should head over to his patreon page. You do the math.

directx11-nodes

Superphysical Physically based rendering: Materials, Mutliple Lights, Shadows superphysical

DX11.Particles A comprehensive GPU particle library that also supports kinect 1 & kinect 2 dx11.particles

Instance Noodles A modular patching system for Compute & Geometry shaders in DX11/vvvv instance-noodles

Fieldtrip vvvv pack for working with 2D and 3D scalar and vector fields. fieldtrip

Happy.fxh Lots of HLSL functions in a (somewhat) systematic and organised collection of header files. happy.fxh

HBAO+ HBAO+ is a high efficiency screen-space ambient occlusion (SSAO) algorithm developed by NVIDIA. hbao

ParticlesGPU Shader Library particle systems via GPU, algorithms, shapes and behaviours particlesgpu-shader-library

Gea.NaiveGPU Physics simulation on GPU gea.naivegpu

Multi Light Shaders Gouraud and Phong shaders for multiple lights and can draw point and directional light in one pass multi-light-shaders

CraftLie draw into a dx11 renderer from VL: craftlie-dx11-drawing-for-vl

Izpi Ibiltzen the ultimate and simple as fuck solution for raymarching in vvvv izpi-ibiltzen-raymarching

PDF Texture PDF to texture pdf-texture-(ex9.texture)

Spout DX11 Share GPU textures between applications spout-dx11

GGX Punctual Lights an easy to use pure implementation of a physically based BRDF with GGX normal distribution in one shader GGX Download

mp.dx Rendering related helpers and utilities md.ecosystem

VR

VVVV.OpenVR Get pose data and render a 3D scene into any VR headset supported by SteamVR vvvv.openvr

Renderer to Google Cardboard Display your renderer with Google Cardboard renderer-to-google-cardboard

Projection Mapping

badMapper Select multiple rectangles from a SourceRenderer and distort those (via homography) in a DestinationRenderer. badmapper

Calibrate and Re-Project Semi-automatically calibrate your projector and throw generated content on to your physical object calibrate-and-re-project

Mapping Toolkit 2D a series of tools for creatives, to create visual content for projection mapping mapping-toolkit-2d

VVVV.Tutorials.Mapping.3D Tutorial on 3D projection mapping using the CalibrateProjector node vvvv.tutorials.mapping.3d

MultiScreen LVT (DX11) Enables you to render onto a screen matrix. Screens can overlap or may have spaces between them multiscreen-lvt-(dx11)

3d Models and Geometry

SceneGraph convenient handling of complex 3d scenes (DX11 & EX9) scenegraph

d.o.p.e. Shape-aware blend weight computation for 2D/3D meshes d.o.p.e.

ParaLib Library for Algorithmic modelling and mesh unroll in vl and vvvv paralib

Boolean Geometry Boolean operations on groups of meshes boolean-geometry

Triangle Triangle creates 2d delaunay triangulations of "Planar Straight Line Graphs" triangle

TetGen A Quality Tetrahedral Mesh Generator and a 3D Delaunay Triangulator tetgen

SplinesGPU given a set of 3d positions the shader interpolates to a higher resolution and calulates lines/curves/splines/ribbons with phong shading. splinesgpu

Video

Demolition Media Hap Player Hardware accelerated HAP video player demolition-media-hap-player

DX11 Imagesequence Player Ultra-HighEnd video playback performance for vvvv / dx11. store

DX11 BlackmagicDesign Decklink VideoIn a professional videocapture soltion safe to use across all scenarios store

VVVV.Nodes.DeckLink Capture video streams using a BlackMagic devices vvvv.nodes.decklink

Player (DX11.Texture) Optimized playback of image stacks player-(dx11.texture)

DDS Converter Convert JPG,TGA,PNG to DDS using NVIDIA Texture Tools 2.0 with CUDA Acceleration. dds-converter

TexConvGUI Simple GUI for MS Texconv using DirectXTex to convert image stacks. Can do BC6 and BC7 compression, more recent than DDS Converter. texconvgui

Computer Vision

VVVV.Packs.Image OpenCV for vvvv. Note that there is a newer OpenCV implementation for VL. vvvv.packs.image

Optical Flow DX11 GPU Optical flow solution on GPU optical-flow-dx11-gpu

Audio

VVVV.Audio Pack Alpha vvvv audio engine supporting low latency ASIO sound cards: vvvv.audio-pack-alpha

VVVV.Audio NODE15 Workshop Patches tutorial patches about generative and interactive audio, as well as audio mixing with VST effects. vvvv.audio-node15-workshop-patches

Irrklang 3D Audio Irrklang node in the addon pack 3d spatialized sound playback

Web

Vanadium Html Texture for VVVV which is using CEF and ChromiumFX bindings for that https://github.com/meso-unimpressed/Vanadium

HTMLTexture (DX11) Browser for DX11, based on ChromiumFX library. Perfectly fit for UI. htmltexture-(dx11)

RESTful HTTP Node easy access to RESTful web API's restful-http-node

Tracking

Tracker stabilize blobs, handle ghost blobs and smooth the incoming data tracker

OptiTrack Motiontracking Nodeset to read data about markers, rigid bodys and tracking statistics from an OptiTrack Motive server. store

Track (Vector3D) helps to restore a certain spread order from a unordered list of coordinates. track-(vector3d)

Workflow

Automata UI A visual finite state machine editor automata-ui

Content Management System if you have a large project, with lot's of information, texts and media, you might want to manage that in a less painful way than using folders and XML files. store

vvvv-Patchbox This toolset gives you some additional capabilities to patch with great speed. vvvv-patchbox

WindowHandler (VVVV) find, move, resize and arrange vvvv windows, and show them in the taskbar windowhandler-(vvvv)

Process (Animation) for tasks which require the notion of: "Do that, then that, then that.." and so on. process-(animation)

vpm A package Manager for VVVV vpm

vvvv-Message make plugins with easily typeable io pins and use that to retain order in bigger patches vvvv-message

Struct bundle links/pins into named groups while not giving up visual dataflow, performance and vvvvs graph evaluation strategy struct

mp.essentials Essential lower level utility nodes for everyday patching md.ecosystem

Scripting

Note that this can now also be done in a visual way using VL.

Scripter (CSharp) dynamic c# plugins for the ultra-lazy scripter-(csharp)

Kinect

Microsoft Kinect 2.0 Tools Create playback of sensor stream using Kinect for Windows Tools, aplications using Kinect2 will receive content of this playback microsoft-kinect-2.0-tools

Kinect Hitboxes DX11 Tool for creating site-specific interactions using Kinect kinect-hitboxes-dx11

DX11.Particles A comprehensive GPU particle library that also supports kinect 1 & kinect 2 dx11.particles

Machine Learning

VVVV.Packs.MachineLearning Bringing several methods of the field to VVVV, mostly by wrapping functionality from the great accord.net framework vvvv.packs.machinelearning-(alpha)

UI

Notuiv A UI behavior package providing a robust skeleton for your UI elements notuiv

MultiTouchStack multitouch image gallery, your stock must have multi-touch effect vvvv.packs.multitouchstack

Network

vvvv-ZeroMQ fully fledged toolkit for asynchronous communication vvvv-zeromq

Ableton Link synchronize time and beat with ableton link ableton-link

Learning

Parasitic Design - a vvvv beginners cookbook big series of demo-patches with detailed explanations for generative design parasitic-design-a-vvvv-beginners-cookbook

Video Effects and Compositing Tutorials applying effects on videostreams or compositing multiple streams of video together video-effects-and-compositing-tutorials

don't panic - the noobs guide to vvvv This leaflet gives a short overview of what vvvv is all about and features a collection of the most important keyboard shortcuts and mousetricks. dont-panic-the-noobs-guide-to-vvvv

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