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Is it possible to download an image using a web request in Lens Studio ?

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Jonathan Jennings
Snap Lens Network Member Lens Studio Team

Hello everyone I have just begun to explore Lens Studio and developing with it , I'm currently in the exploratory process to figure out the best way for me and my team to make use of the Lens Studio environment ( which I love btw it reminds me a lot of game engines) .

One thing we were curious about was 

1. whether or not we can make REST web requests from within our lens

2. whether those request can be used to download a texture into an image  and then placed on an image object within the environment ?

 

The idea is to mimic functionality we are doing in an app of our own which downloads high fidelity images  for people to view.  Is that possible using  Lens Studio at this time ?

 

 

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    Jonathan Jennings
    Snap Lens Network Member Lens Studio Team

    Bump I know this is a peculiar request, does anyone know how plausible it is if at all possible? My inkling is that it's not .

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    Kaitlyn Benitez-Strine
    Snap Lens Network Member Lens Studio Team

    Hey Jonathan,

    Lens Studio currently doesn't allow any web requests to be made, but I'll be sure to let the engineers know of your desire of it.

    Cheers,
    Kaitlyn

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    Jonathan Jennings
    Snap Lens Network Member Lens Studio Team

    Thank you Kaitlyn !

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