Camera Kit Compatibility

If you are a Camera Kit developer please review the Lens Studio compatibility table to ensure your Lens will work in your application.

Release Notes

4.43

New

  • Cubemaps offers Lens Developers the ability to apply multiple 2D Textures to an individual face of a cube to be used to generate effects such as skyboxes, reflections and unique lighting setups.

    • The Cubemap Template showcases various ways Lens Developers can use cubemaps to create lightweight and complex lighting solutions.

  • SnapML’s new Portrait Relighting introduces the ability to enhance or change the light and background of photos, as well as adding your own custom lighting to photos.

  • The Gem Rendering Custom Component provides Lens Developers a way to reproduce the unique lighting effects in gemstones such as ruby, sapphires and diamonds.

    • The Gem Rendering Template offers Lens Developers a quick way to get started with building Gemstone focused Lenses.

  • The Physics Lab template in conjunction with the Content Editor Tools, teaches both Lens Developers and Snapchatters how to both author and play a simple physics-based game on device and from within Lens Studio.

  • Lens Studio Visual Studio Code Extension has been released to the VSCode Marketplace to help streamline Lens Studio development in VSCode.



Improvements

  • Lens Developers can now opt-out of using the Version Control Friendly Project Format.

  • Support for Multiple Custom Locations in a single Lens.


 

Fixed

  • Fixed crash of Lens Studio application when update materials dialog applied for Responsive Plants template

  • Fixed issue when user received update materials button after project reopen instead of on state when assets were added into project

  • Fixed issue when project can not be reopened on macOS after custom components was deleted from the project

  • Fixed crash of Lens Studio application when project with VFX assets was optimized

  • Fixed crash of Lens Studio application when import of ML model was canceled

  • Fixed issue when user received unexpected user dialog in Lens Studio Tutorial

  • Fixed issue when animated WebP asset imported as upside down

  • Fixed issue when ‘getTimeLeft’ for delayed events returning elapsed time, not remaining time

  • Fixed issue when Lens Studio application will not revert updated shaders to old version after Undo

  • Fixed crash of Lens Studio application if script invalidates a physics body

  • Fixed issue on Windows OS when user can not reopen project which was saved in folder connected with Google Drive

  • Fixed issue when Connected lens template shows error level log if not hitting the join button

System Requirements

Operating System

Windows 10 (64 bit); MacOS 10.15+

Hardware

Minimum of Intel Core i3 2.5Ghz or AMD FX 4300 2.6Ghz or Apple M1 with 4 GB RAM; Intel HD Graphics 5000 / Nvidia GeForce 760 / AMD Radeon HD 5570 or better; screen resolution of 1280x768 or higher

Please make sure that you have the latest driver for your specific graphics card installed

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