How to get Day of The Week Filter on Instagram This is a Spark AR template for getting the day of week—Sunday, Monday, Tuesday…in the patch editor. We are going to retrieve the weekday value from script and deliver it to the Patch Editor as a String (text) and a Scalar Value (number) using the […]
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How to make a millisecond timer with Spark AR Studio Timers are an essential part of mini games created with Spark AR Studio. If we want to increase the accuracy of our timer, we can use a few objects and lines of code to get the timer to 0.00 format. Patch Editor There are plenty
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How to create a simple timer in Spark AR Studio There are lots of options for keeping track of time and counting things in Spark AR. I’m going to cover a few in this article and promote a patch asset I created called Simple Timer. Runtime From the Spark AR website: “The Runtime patch tracks
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How to pick multiple objects in Spark AR Studio. Say we have more than 5 objects that we need to keep track of. They have their own properties—like size, position, scale and material—that get updated when certain events happen—like an object tap. Keeping track of which object is selected or “active” and which is not
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I recently spoke with a fellow creator from Mumbai who wished to create a teaching mirror effect in Spark AR Studio to teach online with Instagram Live. You may have noticed that when you’re using the front camera (selfie camera) on the Instagram camera, the image is flipped. It produces a mirror effect, which is
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The list of Spark AR Scripting Examples. Copy and Paste Spark AR JavaScript code snippets for all data types: Text, Number, Vectors, Pulse and Boolean. Native UI Picker This common script has been updated in version 85+ of Spark AR. There is updated documentation and an example here. The Picker and Slider UI elements are
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How to drag 2D Object in Spark AR Studio This is a patch tutorial to learn how to drag 2D object Spark AR Studio using the Screen Pan Interaction. Screen Pan can tell us the 2D position of our moving touch location. We could use another touch Interaction Patch, but since we want to drag,
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How to make a color sampler Spark AR Studio Here is the completed patch running in the Spark AR Studio Patch Editor. I will breakdown what each component does to make it clear how the patch objects work together. Screen Size We need screen size in order to translate the screen coordinates to a range
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