Updating face texture doesn't update preview

Hi Marco,

FaceTextureProvider is meant for cropping faces from the live camera feed at runtime. The cropped area will always be relative to faces found on the device camera texture, not the "inputTexture" being passed in.

Usually the reason to set inputTexture is to control which Render Target or Device Camera Texture is being used for rendering, to choose which effects should be rendered over the face. For example, you could use Device Camera Texture as input to render the face with no effects, or you could use your main Render Target as input to render the face with whatever effects have already been applied to it that frame.

So unfortunately, there's no way to detect a face on an arbitrary input texture, except maybe by using MLComponent and training a model to do this. Or, if you are using the image picker specifically, you can use a Face Image Picker texture.

I'm not sure what your use case is, but maybe you could crop the faces out ahead of time, if they aren't dynamic? If you want, I can try pointing you in the right direction if you give a little more context

Thanks,
Jacob

It sounds like you could use a Face Image Picker texture, then call copyFrame() on it every time a selection is made. Store these copies in your array and you can use them directly as textures. As long as "Crop to Face" is enabled on the Face Image Picker texture asset, they'll already be cropped to the user's face.

// @input Asset.Texture faceImagePickerTexture

var faceTextures = [];

// Set a callback for when the user picks a different image from the image picker
script.faceImagePickerTexture.control.setImageChangedCallback(function(){
    // Copy the texture
    var newTexture = script.faceImagePickerTexture.copyFrame();

    // Store the new texture
    faceTextures.push(newTexture);
});

Then later you can just use the stored textures directly like:

script.image.mainPass.baseTex = faceTextures[0]; // Use whatever index you need

Hope this works for you. Let me know if you need any more help!

Jacob