Plugin Not loading

[oyinkan21]

Hi. I just downloaded ChucKDesigner and wanted to fiddle around with it a bit however I have an issue in Chuck Audio where it says it failed to load the plugin. How do I fix this?

[DBraun]

What’s your OS and TouchDesigner version? Can you try creating and saving a new Toe project next to ChucKDesigner.toe, then reopening the project and trying to use the plugins? I have sometimes observed issues in which the Plugins need to be deleted and recreated in the same project when there’s a new version.

[oyinkan21]

I tried creating a new Toe project next to ChuckDesigner.toe but it still didn't work. I'm not sure if I just didn't use the plugins correctly. How would I delete and recreate them? Is there a way to work around this?

[DBraun]

Assuming you're on Windows and using TouchDesigner 2023.11600, download the Python 3.11 zip here. Unzip the content and put it in the Plugins folder next to ChucKDesigner.toe. Then re-open the project, and it all should work. I have tested it again just now using the files from GitHub.

[oyinkan21]

I just tried doing that but I'm still running into the same issue. Could this be because I'm on Mac and not Windows?

[DBraun]

Yes that is why I asked for your operating system earlier. For macOS you need to build ChucKDesigner locally. The instructions are on the homepage: https://github.com/DBraun/ChucKDesigner?tab=readme-ov-file#macos

[oyinkan21]

I did build it locally but I'm going to try deleting my cloned repo and redoing it.

[DBraun]

Is the issue resolved? The latest release has precompiled plugins for macOS Apple Silicon (arm64) and Intel (x86_64).