reflective eyes

Hi Austin,

You can use a Face Mask to cover up the parts of the eye mesh you don't want to show.

First, add the two eye meshes. It sounds like you've already done this part but I'll include it just in case. You can skip to the next section if you just want to set up the face mask.

• First, create a head binding by going to Add New > Face Effects > Head Binding. Remove the Face Occluder object underneath it (right click and select "Remove").
• Set the binding's attachment point to "Left Eye".
• Add a child mesh object by selecting the head binding object and clicking Add New > Mesh > Empty
• On the new mesh object's Mesh Visual, change the "Mesh" property to the eye mesh you want to use. You can just use the built in "Sphere" mesh if you don't have your own.
• Change the Mesh Visual's Material 1 to the eye material you want to use.
• Scale the object to roughly fit the size of an eye. I used the default Sphere mesh and scaled the object to about (0.23, 0.23, 0.23).
• Now, select the head binding object and duplicate it (right click and select "Duplicate"). On the new copy, change the attachment point to "Right Eye".
• You should now see two meshes being drawn over your eyes (and above your face around them)

Now it's time to set up the face mask. This Face Mask will use your actual face as its texture and draw above the eye meshes created earlier, masking out the parts we don't want to show.

• First, create a face mask using Add New > Face Effects > Face Mask. 
• Select the new face mask and make sure "Use Orig. Face" is checked.
• Change the face mask's Texture to Device Camera Texture. This is important so make sure it's right!
• Now you need to find or make an opacity texture that covers the area around the eyes, but not the eyes themselves. I went to the "Photo" template and grabbed the "eye_1" texture found in the "Opacity Textures" folder. This one works pretty well but isn't perfect, since there's a little too much opacity fading around the eyelids. You can edit the texture in image editing software to adjust this.
• On the face mask, set "Opacity Texture" to the opacity texture you just brought in.
• You should now see your eye meshes visible between your eyelids, with the face mask covering over the rest of your face. If the eye meshes are completely visible and drawing over your face, make sure the face mask is below them in the hierarchy. My hierarchy looks like this at the end:

Hope this helps! Let me know if you have any more questions.

In Lens Studio, you can go to File > New Project From Template > Face > Photo to open up the Photo template.
Or, from the starting screen you can go to the "Templates" tab and then open the Photo template from there (it should be near the top of the Face templates).

Once you have the template project open, save it as a new project. Now that the project is saved, you can access any of the textures by looking in the "Public" folder in your project directory. Here's a quick way to do that:

• Expand the "Opacity Textures" folder in the Resources panel
• Right click on any of the textures inside
• Click "Show in Finder" if on OSX, or the equivalent on Windows

This should open up the folder containing all the textures. From here you can just switch back to your main project and import whichever textures you want.