8thWall camera with glow layer

MouseOverYou · December 17, 2019, 2:46pm

Hi, I use 8thwall(an augmented reality library?) and BABYLON to create Augmented Reality. So far so good. I just noticed something kind of annoying. If I add a glowlayer to the scene, the camera feed gets treated as an emissive texture and everything starts to glow. so everything turns on white.

I have tried addIncludedOnlyMesh for just one mesh, but still everythings turns on white.

I reached the guys at 8thwall and they told me to ask the babylon people since they dont know how the glowlayer works.

the 8thwall / babylon example is here:

github.com

8thwall/web/blob/master/examples/babylonjs/placeground/index.js

const modelRootURL = './'                                 // Directory where 3D model lives
const modelFile = 'tree.glb'                              // 3D model to spawn at tap
const startScale = new BABYLON.Vector3(0.01, 0.01, 0.01)  // Initial scale value for our model
const endScale = new BABYLON.Vector3(0.05, 0.05, 0.05)    // Ending scale value for our model
const animationMillis = 750                               // Animate over 0.75 seconds

let surface, engine, scene, camera

// Populates some object into an XR scene and sets the initial camera position.
const initXrScene = ({ scene, camera }) => {
  console.log('initXrScene')

  const directionalLight = new BABYLON.DirectionalLight("DirectionalLight", new BABYLON.Vector3(0, -1, 1), scene)
  directionalLight.intensity = 1.0

  const ground = BABYLON.Mesh.CreatePlane('ground', 100, scene)
  ground.rotation.x = Math.PI / 2
  ground.material = new BABYLON.StandardMaterial("groundMaterial", scene)
  ground.material.alpha = 0
  surface = ground

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the babylon camera gets the 8thwall behavior on line 96:
camera.addBehavior(XR8.Babylonjs.xrCameraBehavior(), true)

Has somebody any idea on how to solve this? probably is hard to debug since you need an appkey to run the example locally

Deltakosh · December 17, 2019, 2:48pm

Well this could be trickybut let me ask @sebavan

sebavan · December 17, 2019, 3:32pm

Main issue is that they use emissive for their mesh to display the camera feed

You could try to exclude their mesh (addExcludedMesh) ???

MouseOverYou · December 17, 2019, 3:47pm

so I guess i have to ask them how to access their mesh (i guess is a plane where they are rendering the camera feed, right?)

sebavan · December 17, 2019, 3:53pm

Yup sounds like it to me, you might be able to find it under scene.meshes

MouseOverYou · December 17, 2019, 4:09pm

for(var i=0; i<=scene.meshes.length; i++){

alert(scene.meshes[i].name);

}

gives me only one mesh…“ground” that is not what we are looking for so they are not adding any mesh to the scene

Deltakosh · December 17, 2019, 4:45pm

Maybe a different scene?

sebavan · December 17, 2019, 4:49pm

Or a layer ?

ArSancube · October 16, 2020, 4:14am

I am facing the same problem, any idea on this?

Lonerobot · January 25, 2021, 12:03pm

Yep, I have this issue too, anyone ever figure out a solution for this?

Lonerobot · January 29, 2021, 11:34am

I’ve posted this back to the 8th wall devs Slack channel as I need to clarify the points @Deltakosh and @sebavan made above, hopefully they will be able to suggest something.

Lonerobot · February 17, 2021, 4:17pm

This was the only reply so far to this issue on 8th wall

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