This is a collection of the template projects included with Lens Studio.
- Learn more about what Lens Studio is: What is Lens Studio?
- Building Your First Lens using Built-in AR Effects
- Lens Studio Project Structure
- Pairing your device to Snapchat
- Lens Studio Home Page
- Scene Overview
- Panels
- Toolbar and Shortcuts
- Workspaces
- Importing and Exporting Resources
- Migrating from Meta Spark to Lens Studio
- Lens Studio for Unity Developers
Snap AR offers an extensive range of tutorials across various categories to help you create and enhance your lenses.
- Guides
- Importing and Exporting Resources
- Guides
- Overview
- Basic Structures
- Best Practices
- Building Plugins
- Common Tasks
- Installing
- Figma Importer Plugin
- Managing Plugins
- Figma Importer Plugin
- Transitions Library Plugin
- Guides
- Lens Discovery
- Sharing Your Lens
- Snapcodes
- Snap Kit
- Unlocking Lenses
- Guides
- Configuring Project Settings
- Preview Videos
- Creating an Icon
- Lens Hints
- Scene Manager
- Wired Parameters
- Asset Packages Introduction
- Package Library Management
- Installed Content Preferences
- Guides
- 3D Optimization
- Compression
- Mobile Monitor and Trace Analysis [Beta]
- Mobile Lens Profiler Case Study
- Performance and Optimization for Lenses
- Lens Quality Assurance Troubleshooting
- Texture Optimization
- Guides
- Submission Guidelines
- Lens Visibility
- Lens Analytics
- Lens Creator Rewards
- Submitting Your Lens
- Guides
- Animation Curve Editor
- Animation Events
- Animation Player
- Animation State Manager
- Importing 3D Animations
- Transitions & Triggering
- Pin To Mesh
- Prefabs
- Procedural Mesh
- 3D Animation
- Vertex Animation Textures Guide
- Vertex Animation
- Templates
- Overview
- Audio Tracks
- Audio Component
- Audio Templates
- Audio Listener
- Audio Output
- Speech Recognition
- Text To Speech
- Templates
- Audio Analyzer
- Audio Output
- Keyword Detection
- Music Video
- Soundboard
- Guides
- Bitmoji 2D
- Bitmoji 3D
- Animating Bitmoji 3D
- Bitmoji Head
- Adding Bitmoji Props
- Templates
- Bitmoji Runner Game
- Guides
- 3D Body and Hand Tracking
- Body Mesh
- Body Mesh Attachments
- External Body Mesh
- External Body Mesh Creation
- Head & Neck Tracking
- Portrait Skin Segmentation
- Normals and Depth
- Footwear Segmentation
- Fullscreen Segmentation
- Segmentation Trails
- Upper Body Tracking
- Upper Garment Segmentation
- Templates
- 3D Body Tracking
- Body Morph Guide
- Body Mesh
- Body Segmentation
- Earring Try-On
- Eyewear Try-On
- Full Body Attachments
- Full Body Triggers
- Shoulder
- Skeletal
- Try-On Template
- Footwear Try-On
- Garment Transfer
- Necklace Try-On
- Cloth Simulation Try-On
- Guides
- Connected Lenses Overview
- Development Workflow
- Lifecycle
- Sharing Data Between Partipants
- Connected Lenses Example
- Templates
- Connected Lens
- Sync Framework
- Sync Framework - Voting
- Realtime Store
- Guides
- 3D Object Export
- 3ds Max, 3D Object Export
- Blender, 3D Object Export
- Cinema 4D, 3D Object Export
- Maya, 3D Object Export
- Qlone, 3D Object Export
- Templates
- Guides
- Eye Color
- Eye Tracking
- Face Expressions
- Face Image Picker
- Face Image
- Face Index
- Face Inset
- Face Landmarks
- Face Liquify
- Face Mask
- Face Mesh
- Face Texture
- Hair Component
- Head Binding
- Head Attached 3D Objects
- Working with Multiple Faces
- Templates
- 2D Objects
- 3D Objects
- Baseball Cap
- Chain Physics
- Countdown
- Cricket Helmet
- Distort
- Face Expressions
- Face Image Picker
- Face in Picture
- Face In Video
- Face Landmarks
- Face Mesh
- Face Morph
- Facial Features Segmentation
- Face Paint
- Face Stickers
- Hair Color
- Hair Simulation
- Head Mesh
- Makeup
- Media Picker
- Paper Head
- Photo
- Portrait Particles
- Segmentation
- Sunglasses
- Team Celebrate
- Trigger
- Guides
- 3D Capture
- 3D Asset Generation
- Bitmoji Animation Generation
- Body Morph Generation
- Easy Lens (Beta)
- ML Face Effect Generation
- Garment Generation
- Head Morph Generation
- Immersive ML Generation
- Guides
- 2D Hand Tracking
- Hand and Nails Segmentation
- Wristwear Try-On
- Ring Binding Component
- Templates
- 3D Hand Interactions
- 3D Hand Tracking
- 3D Hand VFX
- ASL Fingerspelling
- Hand Gestures
- Hand Segmentation
- Hand
- Hand Joints
- Wristwear Try-On
- Ring Binding Component
- Guides
- 3D Object Import
- FBX, 3D Object Import
- glTF, 3D Object Import
- OBJ, 3D Object Import
- Guides
- Lens Cloud Overview
- Multi-User Services
- Location-Based Services
- Remote Assets
- Storage Services
- Guides
- Light and Shadow
- Environment Matching
- Screen Space Normals Generation
- Signed Distance Field Generator
- Gaussian Splatting
- Person Normals and Depth
- Guides
- Landmarkers
- Map Component
- Templates
- Custom Location
- Custom Location Creator Lens
- City-Scale AR
- Spatial Persistence
- Guides
- Overview
- Nodes
- Guides
- Introduction and Concepts
- VFX Sub-Graph Library
- VFX Collisions
- VFX Graph Optimization
- VFX vs GPU Particles
- Templates
- VFX Collision
- VFX
- Guides
- Persistent Cloud Storage
- Single Player Example
- Multiplayer Example
- Persistent Storage
- Templates
- High Score
- Simple High Score
- Guides
- Physics Overview
- Physics Assets and Components
- Force
- Raycast
- Collision and Overlap
- Cloth Simulation
- Templates
- Physics
- Physics Toys
- Responsive Plants
- Collect Coins
- Gravity Gun
- Cloth Simulation
- Physics Lab
- Guides
- Scripting Introduction
- Scripting Example
- Accessing Components
- Custom Script UI
- Custom TypeScript Configuration
- Debugging with Logger
- Script Components
- Script Editor
- Script Events
- Script Library Management
- Script Modules
- Touch and Interactions
- TypeScript
- Visual Studio Code Extension
- Behavior
- Tween
- Guides
- Compatibility
- Crop Texture
- Export from PyTorch
- Export from TensorFlow
- Faceless ML Component
- Model Zoo
- ML Component Overview
- Scripting ML Component
- SnapML Overview
- Quick Start
- Templates
- Classification
- Disappearing Effects
- Ground Segmentation
- ML Environment Matching
- Paint To Erase
- Portrait Relighting
- World Eraser Template
- Style Transfer
- Custom Segmentation
- Object Detection
- Multi Class Classification
- Multi-Object Detection
- Optical Character Recognition
- Guides
- Shopping Lens
- True Size Objects
- Guides
- Photoshop Texturing
- Substance Texturing
- Guides
- Text Overview
- Text 3D
- Caption Sticker Component
- Localization
- Native Keyboard
- Shareable Text Edits
- Templates
- 3D Text
- Guides
- Guides
- Remote Service Module
- AccuWeather API
- ChatGPT API
- Snapchat Places API
- Guides
- Screen Transform Overview
- Screen Transform Properties
- Screen Region and Device Simulation
- Masking
- Canvas
- Pixel Accurate Rendering
- Camera Roll Widget
- Image
- 2D Animation
- Image Carousel
- FlexBox Layout
- UI Widgets
- UI Scroll View
- GIPHY Import
- Leaderboard
- Templates
- 4 Randomizers
- Configuration
- Drawing
- Freeze Frame
- Meme Sticker
- Persistent Noteboard
- Quiz
- Simple Canvas
- Tournament
- What x Are You Spinner
- Guides
- User Context System
- Friends Components
- Friends Carousel
- Templates
- Friends Sorting
- This or That
- Guides
- User Context System
- Friends Components
- Friends Carousel
- Templates
- Friends Sorting
- This or That
- Guides
- Question & Answering Service Template
- 2D Animated TTS
- Audio Classification Template
- Sentiment Analyzer
- Speech Recognition
- Text To Speech
- Voice UI
- Guides
- Overview
- Nodes
- Guides
- Device Tracking
- Marker Tracking
- Object Tracking
- World Mesh and Depth Texture
- Manipulation
- Combining World and Face
- Templates
- Content Editor Tools
- Content Editor Tools Continued
- Cutout
- Instant World Hit Test
- Marker
- Marker with Snapcode
- Pet
- Simple World Mesh
- World Mesh Example
- World Tracking Planes
- Depth Toybox
- Look Around
- Picture Frame
- Portal
- Static Object
- Window
To use Lens Studio effectively, your computer must meet the following requirements:
- Windows: Windows 10 (64-bit)
- MacOS: MacOS 10.15+
- Processor: Minimum of Intel Core i3 2.5GHz, AMD FX 4300 2.6GHz, or Apple M1
- RAM: 4 GB or more
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 5000 / Nvidia GeForce 760 / AMD Radeon HD 5570 or better
- Screen Resolution: 1280x768 or higher
Note: Ensure that you have the latest driver installed for your specific graphics card.
Lens Studio 5.3 is compatible with Snap OS v5.58 and later.
| Lens Studio Version | Snap OS Version |
|---|---|
| 5.1.x | 5.57+ |
| 5.2.x | 5.58+ |
| 5.3.x | 5.58+ |
| 5.4.x | 5.59+ |
If you are a Camera Kit developer, review the Lens Studio compatibility table to ensure your Lens functions correctly within your application.
- RAM Usage: The Lens should consume a maximum of 150 MB RAM memory.
- Exported Lens Size: The zipped Lens file should not exceed 8 MB.
- ML Models: ML models are counted separately, with a limit of 10 MB.
- Texture Size: Textures should not exceed a resolution of 2048 x 2048.
A license file is included with each template project. The full license can be found here: Template License.
See the documentation site for detailed guides on each template.