Top Guy

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Top Guy It's you!

Inspiration

Since we were little, some of us had the dream of flying. But unfortunately, we were only able to do it in our dreams. Then as we grew older, our parents showed us one of their favorite movies of all time, Top Gun. The thundering sound from the jet engine rattled our ears as we see Maverick and Goose took to the sky. The story itself was a mixture of brotherhood, love, and honor, with a bunch of exciting jet fighting sequence. Least to say, it blew us away.

When the latest Top Gun came out this year, we were overjoyed! The moment we heard the song "Danger Zone" we were brought right back to our childhood memoires when we saw it for the very first time. We decided to build a filter so that we can share our love for the movie.

What it does

Once you've opened the lens, you'll see a floating jet pilot helmet. The person in the rear camera can activate this lens by giving it a thumbs up gesture. After a white light, the scene will transition to the person now wearing the helmet and being in the cock pit of a fighter jet in the sky, just like Tom Cruise!

How we built it

First turn on the rear camera, using Plane Tracking, Tween, and Particles to showcase the fighter pilot helmet. When a person enters in front of the camera, they can gesture a “thumbs up”, this will trigger the scene to change. The subject will now be wearing the fighter pilot helmet in the fighter jet cockpit while gliding in the sky.

Challenges we ran into

Before starting the project, we noticed that the trigger can be a gesture like a “thumbs up”, so we followed the instructions on the Snap Doc site and built the command. First we generated a script, then created an empty object and implimented our script. We also added a trigger, with the command “thumb” then we input the helmet model into the script. Last we used trigger to show the helmet and the animation in the lens.

While we're building the settings and scenes, we often encounter issues in the Lens Studio where the image we see in Lens Studio does not match the ones we see on our cell phone. This took us a lot of time going back and forth to make sure things look right. More detailed issues are addressed in the feedback form.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We noticed that Snap Lens is definitely a powerful AR studio, though none of our teammates this time are that knoweldgable in coding or scripting. As a result, we made thigns easier since we were also pressed with time. As a side note, our boss's son also composed the background music for this lens. All in all, we were very happy with the result!

What we learned and What's next for Top Guy

No matter what, we overcame the issues, and we hope to make more fun and exciting filters for all age and gender in the future. We hope that with our filter, we are able to give all kids and and adults the ability to fly, when they feel the need for SPEED!