Lens Studio AI Assistant got a visual update! You can find it under Window > “AI Assistant”.

Animation APIs have been overhauled with imports now producing a new Animation asset and a new AnimationPlayer Component. This single Asset + Component pair makes it easier to work with imported animations in the inspector. This is especially helpful for targeting them at meshes like are provided separately like Bitmojis. 

The Friend API allows Lens developers to add dynamic friend info into their Lenses including Bitmojis, zodiac, and streak counts.

Bitmoji 3D component update - now supports new version of avatar, allows access to friend’s avatar or My AI avatar, provides ability to apply animation. Additionally we release Bitmoji 3D source rig (Maya) to allow users to create custom animations to their Bitmoji Avatar.

A new Installed Content tab in the Application Preferences allows managing installed and registered Custom Components.

Explore the new addition of templates as assets in the Asset Library. Discover popular effects like Background Image or Hair Color within the Custom Components and Essentials Category. 

New “Ring Binding” custom component to enable easy creation of ring try-on experiences.

Added Support of Ray Tracing

Added Mesh Property for the VFXAsset

Added Default VFX Custom Mesh and Related Sub-Graphs

Added Support Install of previous content versions from asset library

Added Custom Resolution for Render Target

Added “Select” context menu for assets in picker

Added support to open project via drag&drop on macOS

Added support of component reordering through inspector drag & drop

Added support of Attack/Decay and Pixel Fog subgraphs

Added support of new subgraphs Depth Distance Fade & Polar Coordinates and new VFX Output Subgraph for Depth Distance Fade

Improved Matcap Reflection and VFX Output Subgraph Align to Velocity to support a new facing mode

Allow applying external changes to prefab instances in scene after fbx / gltf update

Support FBX scaling mode when importing from Maya Software

Speed of automatic merge improved greatly

Fixed application crash when user is trying to add ‘Particles’ object

Fixed application crash during shader undo

Fixed issue with Face Inset Editor

Fixed issue when Custom Component Type in input doesn’t work when array is used

Fixed issue with scale for 3d models import

Fixed issue when user can not be opened Face Stretch Editor

Fixed issue with opening of Image Editor

Fixed issue when application crashes when user is trying to click on Hand Tracking icon in Preview

Fixed issue when application crashes when user is trying to copy&paste items in VFX graph

Fixed crash when trying to turn on Hand Tracking in Interactive Preview

Fixed issue when Segmentation was not applied to full Preview

Fixed issue with touchable area for editable text being too large

Script Graph is largely not functional. Graphs will not execute in the scene or in published lenses. Most nodes are not addable.

In Snapchat 12.83 AnimationAssets with only a single animation event will only ever fire that event once.

In Snapchat 12.83 animation events near the beginning and end of clips may not fire.

In Lens Studio and Snapchat 12.83 + 12.84 AnimationPlayer will play animations even when disabled.

In Lens Studio and Snapchat 12.83 + 12.84 all SceneObjects under an AnimationPlayer will be enabled if any animation is playing.