Spark AR Studio - Layers, Segmentation and Emitters

[@sufianmaroni378]

LOVE IT. Appreciate how you show it. Its hard for me T_T so many tutorials and you are one of the many help much to get my visual right :) Thank you. I feel like crying sometimes....... suddenly my emitter just won't give the same result as yesterday. spark ar is so fragile and i gave up........

[@rebeccamarie1060]

Best tutorial I've found on Spark AR Studio! You explained everything so clearly

[@khannarmurr]

Great tutorial man, cheers!

[@HakanYilmazAbstractizm]

Hey, thanks for the great tutorial. Nevertheless in Spark AR Studio 90, it's not working. The Particles stay in front. Any ideas?

[@emmachong1056]

wow, thank you so much. This was an amazing tutorial

[@HypeVirale]

bro your videos are fantastic! Can you make a tutorial about how to set and adapt the head occluder for example to put an hat on someone's head? thank you,you are the best!

[@Giovannid01]

Yes true,i need one too

[@CatalystChannel]

@@Giovannid01 Iwould look at using the head forehead value and an offset to add hat.

[@mortando.9558]

You are the man! Thanks for showing and making the video! Appreciate it!

[@feerpm]

Gracias!

[@KPACUBOUSA]

Hello. Can you take a video, How to make background and facemesh (mask) at same time? thanks

[@andersonbruno0201]

im having the same problem

[@andersonbruno0201]

dude try turn off "use depth test" in advanced render options of material of facemesh

[@ИванВалов-ч4э]

@@andersonbruno0201 you realy helped me I had the same problem! thank you a lot

[@andersonbruno0201]

@@ИванВалов-ч4э i'm glad to read that

[@bionicmedia]

@@andersonbruno0201 OMG THANK YOU!!!!

[@РоманБодунов-ш4и]

Thank you so much this tutorial! It's really awesome! Can you tell in next tutorial how make several video windows with different time delay camera display?

[@robertsweeney2]

Your tutorials are INCREDIBLE. And I'm sorry to add to the comments like this.. BUT can the different images from your sequence be populated at random? So they are all different at birthrate?

[@CatalystChannel]

Yes, you could adopt a similiar setup as what was used in the What am I style filter tutorials and adjust birthrate via runtime and an offset with a checker (e.g. greater than). Hope this makes some sense... its late :)

[@robertsweeney2]

@@CatalystChannel You are wise beyond your years, going to be a fun night for me. :)

[@andreslederer3933]

Amazing job!

[@biankabg9]

Hi .. thank you so much.. I try to add also lashes and face smooth .. but .. I couldn’t .. make the face smooth working.. maybe you can show a video for that . thanks again

[@kristinaleonenko6552]

Hey! Thanks fro your videos, really helpful. I have a question for u. How can I add face retouching after separating user and background. I tried to do it but it didn’t work. Thank you!

[@anasid3383]

I have the same question! Help, people!)

[@floretakulafovska259]

@@anasid3383 same here!!

[@amauryd]

How can I add a faec mesh retouching to the foreground? tried to simply drag it above the canvas and putting it on another layer....

[@urbanpeppermint4669]

huh, how?

[@ITGeneral]

lit vid! one question: I'm in the making of a 'who / what are you filter' - is it possible to use the resulting picture that is displayed above the face simultaneously as a particle? (for example: when there's a heart displayed above the face, can the same heart also be shown as a particle in the background at the same time?)

[@CatalystChannel]

Yes, simply use the same material as used for the randomiser as the material for particle and it will show the result as particle. Ideally set as a .png with alpha test

[@ITGeneral]

@@CatalystChannel Thank you man!

[@konniekeyworth8405]

Thank you so much for sharing this !!

[@sandyseptiandhy]

What a very useful tutorial bro!

[@AimeeKatherine]

Thank you!

[@elsrah]

Thank you for your tutorial. Can you please tell me how we can put the face tracker + plane in the foreground with the face movement ?

[@krissie2454]

Hello! Super helfpul tutorial. I added a rectangle with a frame type of graphic on the filter and the particles work fine on Spark AR. however, when I test this on my phone, the particles disappear. Would you know how to work around this?

[@kapilananth8048]

Hey, Thank You for this demo! Is there any way to pause the particle system? using tap gesture or face gesture?

[@emilcupic]

love your tutorials, thanks alot bro!

[@CatalystChannel]

Glad you like them!

[@CrisVergueiro]

ITS PERFECT!

[@pierre8073]

Hi, thanks a lot for your video! I've been having a problem, I don't want to control my particles, however I see that they each one is changing, is it possible to randomly create new ones but make sure that they don't change until they're out of the filter?

[@milesjambeau3241]

You could just create a new generator for each particle type and set the speed very low for each one therefore making to illusion of having one generator making random ones ? I'm new to spark at but I thinking that should work

[@eranthomson]

This is great - please, could you add an update for how to add these floating particles behind your quiz game tutorial (what snack am i?) We'd love to combine them, but right now these additions mean the cards on the head don't appear consistently

[@CatalystChannel]

This video really needs reexploring, its one of the earlier channel vids and honestly think could do better. I will try and get this recorded and addressed over the weekend for Monday as its a video that could solve multiple requests I get especially on particles and layer orders e.t.c

[@salvuuccio6939]

How can I publish an effect using segmentation on Instagram? It seems like you can't but I've seen many filters using it. Help!!

[@taufiqurrahman8741]

Sama

[@chankalun]

Hello this is an amazing tutorial. I am using Spark AR v80, and when I tried to change the emitter particle system to the mid-layer, it doesn't work and is still showing in the foreground. May I ask if you or anyone has the same problem as I do please? xxx

[@CatalystChannel]

This video is a bit outdated now, I keep meaning to revisit this video and redo. Is depth buffer on and are the layers organised correctly. Spark is a bit like reverse photoshop scene order wise

[@chankalun]

@@CatalystChannel Hello thanks for your reply! The layers have been organised correctly and I realised that the mid-layer seems to only work on "plane" but not 3D objects like cubes, spheres, etc... and wonder if there would be a solution to that >

[@nonexistentchannel3277]

same

[@peppivik]

Thank you so much for your tutorials!! How to add 3D object on head with segmentation?

[@CatalystChannel]

Ensure layers are set correctly and Advanced render options are off. I wish I could help more but currently on Christmas leave so to speak

[@peppivik]

Catalyst tank you for your answer))

[@ChristopheTaddei]

Thank you for the tutorial !

[@QAYPL1]

THANK YOU ❤️

[@НаталиСамакеша]

Hello! Can you help me please. If i have 2 face mash, each with Shader tipe "Face paint". On the first mask is a drawing on the forehead. The second mask has a picture on the cheeks. Due to the second mask (on the cheeks), the first pattern (which is on the forehead) partially overlaps. And under this condition ( Shader tipe "Face paint") there is no "advanced render option" button.thank you in advance for your response!

[@jyur245]

When creating Material, Im not getting a opaque grey screen it is still black and white checkboard

[@felifyavuz9437]

Thank you for a great tutorial :). I have a problem, when I move the particles at the bottom of the camera, they suddenly appear in front of the user. I can not make them exist behind the user. I did exactly what you did, but when I changed the "user" material's diffuse texture to cameratexture, the console popped up and gave this error "Unset shader uniforms: u_Texture1". What should I do to fix this?

[@CatalystChannel]

This could be either down to texture file not being found, not uniformed or shader type problem. In regards to order ensure layers are correctly set for each object

[@stefano1891]

Same problem

[@haydendoward5714]

I got the same console error the first time but not the second time. To make the particles go behind the user I had to uncheck the 'Use depth test' and 'Write to depth buffer' options under Advanced Render Options for the particle material (should be fine without them if using layers like this), also changed the Shader Type to 'Flat', try give that a go :)

[@MontyBoopers]

@@haydendoward5714 this didn't work :( I'm trying to get the particles behind user, anything else that could do the trick maybe? I've been sat here for hours trying 😂

[@splitscreen6231]

Hi, you have great video's !! I had a question... Is it possible to make a filter in the style of dance dance revolution ?

[@CatalystChannel]

You could possibly by either having object taps or facial gestures that appear / transition at set runtime values....

[@splitscreen6231]

@@CatalystChannel Thank you, and how could i maybe create a random selection of arrows going straight from bottom to up ?

[@ZacharyAghaizu]

Thanks do you know how I can adjust the emitters scale value in the patch to change over time?

[@ruyabaraz]

Hi. When you scale down the person, it crops the shoulders. Is there a way to avoid that?

[@NiezkenWahyuDivilo]

Hi there! Nice to now ur channel... I'm Niezken from Indonesia. I have a question here... I have a project that got me confused. I had 3 layer on the project. 1st for a background (animated), 2nd for the person, and the last one is plane item that attached with facetracker (in front of eyes). It looks great until i found a bug. When the "person" move too far from the camera (still detected), the plane object is disappear. It move across the "canvas" and disappear. Is it any way to solve this?

[@fabiosuarez4847]

And if I want to add the same but too in the front you know just that not the same way..like in menor quantity ..Not only in the background ..What should I do ?

[@MontyBoopers]

I'm trying to find out how I put my particles behind the person. Yous auto did it. Help :(

[@UniverseYP]

we need more

[@CatalystChannel]

I am trying to find time to produce more and to solve a variety of request issues e.t.c however, workloads are quite high and technical issues are still ongoing. This should be resolved in the next few weeks, sorry

[@13arda1313]

awesome job. but can we use those AR Spark effects outside the facebook community, in our custom app ?

[@CatalystChannel]

Spark AR cant be used to make AR effects outside of Facebook / Instagram (with approval) applications

[@dariakliuchnikova6967]

Thank you for the video!! It helped a lot! I have created a simple mask, however after exprot it weights 25 MB(Though in program it is written that the size of texures is OK) How can i fix this?

[@CatalystChannel]

Keeping image sizes small (canvas size) and optimising where possible is key. Under edit properties you can adjust compression amount, changes wont take into account until saved. Spark closed and reopened

[@Avoid_ed]

i have iris eye effect, but after adding this, i cant see it anymore. how to make it visible again?

[@undyedcreativestudio]

man you good, keep the good work :)

[@CatalystChannel]

Thank you

[@AntonioHernandez-sq4rt]

Amazing

[@jasaeditfotoonline1950]

Hello, can you Solve this please... Your Effects May Not Be Seen or Functional on Some Devices Your effect contains capabilities that are not supported by the following devices: segmentation. Unnecessary capabilities can be removed in Spark AR Studio.

[@ventoPS]

Hey! Ive been playing around with this effect as well, was wondering, can you make it so that it interchanges the pngs randomly? So - in your example - that it would put heart eye emojis and smiley emojis at the same time? So that some of them are heart eyes and some of them are smiles. Or can you only put one png in the animation, that you change by tapping? Thanks for the great tutorial, hope this makes sense :)

[@CatalystChannel]

Emitters (particle systems) can only be assigned one material per emitter. You can change the material via using animation sequences and frame transitions to progress the frame (material texture).

[@jorgecordova6133]

Hi! nice video. I have a problem with some 2d objets. When the person gets too far from the camera the objets disappear. And when I am on a closer distance appear again. Do you know how can i fix this? THanks!

[@CatalystChannel]

This will be to do with Z depth, if possible you can disable deoth test on materials advanced render options this ignores z depth (clipping) but be warned it can also cause ither issues if layer orders are not right. Try toggling it off see what happens

[@jorgecordova6133]

@@CatalystChannel Hi man! thanks for the tip. I fixed my problem. Bro, now when it comes to publish it. it doen`t let me do it bc it says I'm using a hashtag but I only put 2 logos on it. Both on top

[@Hayabusaturbooo]

Hey Catalyst, I am also new to SparkAR and i am currently just playing around and watching tutorials. But one thing is not working for me as it is in the tutorial. When i add a Particles System Layer, the particles are already blacked out and are not the usual default black and white texture. If i want to add a material to them - they disappear completely. Can u help me?

[@CatalystChannel]

This sounds odd and should not happen, only reasons I can think of are either a) Render layer settings b) Lighting issue c) Some weird glitch. Could you send a picture of the setup and issue to [e-mail] and will aim to answer before end of the week

[@Hayabusaturbooo]

Catalyst thanks for your fast answer! I’ve made a reddit post about this question too - there u will find two screenshots. www.reddit.com/r/SparkArStudio/comments/ioebhc/particles_disappear_when_adding_material/?

[@markeropatia]

i don't know if you can help me, i hope. i don't understand if i can insert a PNG photo like green screen

[@iyasuo]

Thanks

[@NadaMartin]

hi!! can you please help me how to use color lut and facemesh at the same time? thankyou

[@insulthink]

How to resize the particles to make it bigger? Great tutorial btw ✌🏻

[@CatalystChannel]

Explore birth and death sizes

[@ev79819]

@@CatalystChannel I can't find it. where can I resize it?

[@CatalystChannel]

@@ev79819 Under emitter properties there are various options some may be nestled away. Im not at a computer atm so limited help wise

[@lucas1879]

hi! I want to make those particles appear when my who/what are you sequence finishes. How can I do it in the patch editor? Thanks

[@claudedelacroix9000]

how to put a face mesh in the front of this layers? i added a face mesh and it dives into the layers

[@CatalystChannel]

Set face mesh to a different layer, one that is higher in hierarchy than one used for background

[@felifyavuz9437]

@@CatalystChannel I wanted to do the same thing and tried what you told but still, the face mesh gets lost between layers. Is there any other way to do it?

[@stefano1891]

Same problem!!

[@vdevis104]

Hi, Your lessons are really amazing! I faced with the problem when I want to combine background and face retouching. I created 2 rectangles, one for background and another for user (Diffuse -> cameraTexture; Alpha -> personSegmentation) Then I've added 2 faceMeshes: one for face copy and another for retouching. But when I create a face copy material I get this "white boundaries" effect around the face in some cases. Basically it depends on the angle of face. Here is an example: ibb.co/J5rBLxd Do you know how to fix it?

[@HikmetAkan]

nice video thanks

[@muhammadali-thegreatest2207]

Can you make a video for a simple game? Thank you so much for this video ,it was awsome

[@jamskof]

Ter-torial? your a brit!! TOOOOTORIAL!

[@CatalystChannel]

;)

[@ThePixelitomedia]

how to make the particle bigger? I use a logo as particle but its tiny even if logo is 1024x1024 px

[@CatalystChannel]

Adjust particle start size on the emitter itself

[@daniel6837]

How do I put 3 icons all together?

[@JuiceableHiphop]

Why does my user always turned black? Can someone explain what did I do wrong

[@CatalystChannel]

This could either down to the shader type not be correct, layer order or depth test settings on materials being incorrect.

[@JuiceableHiphop]

Catalyst thank youuu

[@MikicaXperiaX1]

Hi, i donr everything and now when i uploaded my filter, it wont open on instagram camera, so i cant send to approval. do u maybe know whats the problem?

[@CatalystChannel]

It could be any number of things I am afraid, are both app and spark up to date? Is spark hub online? Does the upload meet requirements if these are all okay then it may be something to do with setup and sadly without seeing the project and setup hard to work out. This is one of the older videos due an update tbh

[@DanAlvesoficial]

How to remove policy update template?

[@DevarzaAfansyah]

thx u. how to make rectangle emitter?

[@CatalystChannel]

The emitters will emit any 2D image so if you made a square image (.png if want to keep transparency if present)

[@cemilersoy3085]

how can I create,glitch filter on spark ar ?

[@CatalystChannel]

You either a) need to create a shader effect or b) create a 'glitch' image overlay or c) create an animated 3D model. Depends on what you want to achieve and the time you have to pursue

[@fatma3082]

I added face retouch and it doesnt show... why is that?

[@CatalystChannel]

Face retouching ignores layer order

[@fatma3082]

Catalyst so face retouch never works with background replacement ?

[@luzferri]

[@lolman5997]

Someone help the policy update blocks the screen and I can’t do anything

[@CatalystChannel]

This sounds like a bug I have not heard of before sadly

[@EoKlaus]

I just had that problem. You can change your windows font size to a smaller one and then you'll give the UI the space to show you the 'ok' button.

[@lolman5997]

Klaus Wikrist Ok it worked thank you!

[@ChadNathaniel]

thank you so much! also your mic is very quiet

[@CatalystChannel]

Sorry about this, microphone setups are still not ideal. Going to invest in better setup and a pop filter.

[@Augustllia]

3D?????.

[@podumau6092]

please, check your mail, thanks!