Lens Studio Tutorials!

Hey everyone!

I have been making tutorials for Lens Studio and thought you might find them useful! They cover a range of topics such as tweening, basic javascript, animation, as well as some more fun topics! If you have any questions about the videos feel free to comment inside the videos on youtube or reply to this comment!

Here's a list of my current tutorials:

Object Spawner Template - Use this template to allow your users to choose between different objects, then move, scale and rotate them, and spawn them in the AR Scene! Shoutout to Charles Hamblen for the modeling and animation of the trees!

Make Objects follow the Camera from any direction! - In this video, you’re going to learn how to make objects follow the camera in augmented reality! Whether you want to have a zombie, a spooky skeleton dancing, or even a severed hand stalking your users, this is the video for you!

Skeletal Mask Template - This template adds a slight modification to the new Skeletal tracking template in the latest 2.1 build. It allows you to mask out certain effects using the skeletal tracking, so you can make effects happen on people's arms and torso!

Particle Controller Template - This Template lets your start and stop any particles you want when the user opens and closes their mouth! You can also add other effects and, for the scripters, you can change the mouth opened and closed events to any other events you want to trigger the particles! Just make sure to copy the code inside the events :)

Tracers Template - Here's a template to make your own custom Tracers Lens! Template download is in the Youtube description!

The Call Template - Now you can make your own Fake FaceTime call lens and prank your friends! Template download is in the Youtube description, enjoy!

Four Cameras Template - This is an expansion of a previous tutorial, where you learn how to make four different effects for your lens. In this tutorial, I've made a fully functioning template for you to use! Now, users can just tap on the screen to make one of the effects to fullscreen! Template download link is in the Youtube description.

Smooth Effect Template - Use this template to create your own wacky face effects that smoothly transition as you open your mouth! (Updated for Lens Studio 2.0)

Tracers 2.0 - Learn how to re-create the Tracers effect in Lens Studio 2.0!

Lens Studio 2.0 Walkthrough - With the newest update, a lot of features and functionality has been added! In this video, I walk through the major additions and changes made. I added timestamps in the YouTube description so you can skip to certain areas you're more interested in. Let me know if you have any questions, and happy creating!

Creepy Face Effect from my Nightmare - In this tutorial we will learn how to imitate one of the recent Snap Official lenses that has haunted my dreams. We'll learn how to combine a face texture with a face mask to get a small piece of our skin tone, and cover our whole face with it. Then, we can start adding more face effects to complete our nightmare fuel!

One thing I forgot to mention in the video - In the face texture you can play around a little more with the scale, offset and face region to get a better sample of skin. Let me know if you have any questions!

Adding Multiple Camera Outputs for Different Effects - After watching this video you'll be able to create multiple different cameras and add whatever effects you want to them! That way people can see all your post effects in one lens!

Creating a dynamic count or score using Javascript and the Text Label - This one is great if you want to add a score to your lens, to add some game elements! You could also use it as a general counter!

Creating an Augmented Reality VR Animated Solar System - Here's a great sciene project that is super easy to make. All the resources are available online for free, so anyone can create their own solar system model!

Fading a Face Mask using Tweens - Here's an easy way to incorporate tweens and a little scripting to make your face mask fade in on a custom event!

Cycling through Post Efefcts on Tap - If you like making cool post effects or filters, this tutorial will show you how to add multiple effects and cycle through them with some scripting! You could also achieve the same effect using the fullscreen template :P

How to Create Smooth Effect Transitions - This is a fun tutorial because it shows you how to dynamically change values based on how much someone opens their mouth! It's a great way to make a smooth realistic transition instead of just using a mouth opened event!

Beginner Scripting in Javascript - This tutorial goes over some very basic javascript knowledge you'll need to start creating custom scripts in Lens Studio. You'll learn about things such as referencing objects, creating variables, and also conditional logic statements!

Pixelate Effect - If you've seen those 'censored' effects in some lenses, this is how they did it! Simply by lowering the camera output resolution!

Blur/Tracer Effect - If you liked the 'Tracers' lens, then this tutorial will show you how to get that effect in your own lens! This effect will create visual trails from the camera adding a groovy feeling!

Behavior Script and Custom Animations using Tweens - This tutorial goes over the behavior script and shows you how to create some custom tween animations without doing any scripting!

How to make the Bongo Cat Lens - This shows you how to do a little custom scripting to make your own tappable critter!

Sunrise Face using Custom Tweens - This lens goes through my process for creating the sunrise face lens, and how you can make your own 2D animations with Tweens and some custom scripting!