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Set camera feed as texture input for CustomMaterial
Hello, in this project https://developer.apple.com/documentation/arkit/content_anchors/tracking_and_visualizing_faces there is some sample code that describes how to map the camera feed to an object with SceneKit and a shader modifier. I would like know if there is an easy way to achieve the same thing with a CustomMaterial and RealityKit 2. Specifically I'm interested in what would be the best way to pass in the background of the RealityKit environment as a texture to the custom shader. In SceneKit this was really easy as one could just do the following: material.diffuse.contents = sceneView.scene.background.contents As the texture input for custom material requires a TextureResource I would probably need a way to create a CGImage from the background or camera feed on the fly. What I've tried so far is accessing the captured image from the camera feed and creating a CGImage from the pixel buffer like so: guard     let frame = arView.session.currentFrame,     let cameraFeedTexture = CGImage.create(pixelBuffer: frame.capturedImage),     let textureResource = try? TextureResource.generate(from: cameraFeedTexture, withName: "cameraFeedTexture", options: .init(semantic: .color)) else {     return } // assign texture customMaterial.custom.texture = .init(textureResource) extension CGImage {   public static func create(pixelBuffer: CVPixelBuffer) -> CGImage? {     var cgImage: CGImage?     VTCreateCGImageFromCVPixelBuffer(pixelBuffer, options: nil, imageOut: &cgImage)     return cgImage   } } This seems wasteful though and is also quite slow. Is there any other way to accomplish this efficiently or would I need to go the post processing route? In the sample code the displayTransform for the view is also being passed as a SCNMatrix4. CustomMaterial custom.value only accepts a SIMD4 though. Is there another way to pass in the matrix? Another idea I've had was to create a CustomMaterial from an OcclusionMaterial which already seems to contain information about the camera feed but so far had no luck with it. Thanks for the support!
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Set camera feed as texture input for CustomMaterial
Hello, in this project https://developer.apple.com/documentation/arkit/content_anchors/tracking_and_visualizing_faces there is some sample code that describes how to map the camera feed to an object with SceneKit and a shader modifier. I would like know if there is an easy way to achieve the same thing with a CustomMaterial and RealityKit 2. Specifically I'm interested in what would be the best way to pass in the background of the RealityKit environment as a texture to the custom shader. In SceneKit this was really easy as one could just do the following: material.diffuse.contents = sceneView.scene.background.contents As the texture input for custom material requires a TextureResource I would probably need a way to create a CGImage from the background or camera feed on the fly. What I've tried so far is accessing the captured image from the camera feed and creating a CGImage from the pixel buffer like so: guard     let frame = arView.session.currentFrame,     let cameraFeedTexture = CGImage.create(pixelBuffer: frame.capturedImage),     let textureResource = try? TextureResource.generate(from: cameraFeedTexture, withName: "cameraFeedTexture", options: .init(semantic: .color)) else {     return } // assign texture customMaterial.custom.texture = .init(textureResource) extension CGImage {   public static func create(pixelBuffer: CVPixelBuffer) -> CGImage? {     var cgImage: CGImage?     VTCreateCGImageFromCVPixelBuffer(pixelBuffer, options: nil, imageOut: &cgImage)     return cgImage   } } This seems wasteful though and is also quite slow. Is there any other way to accomplish this efficiently or would I need to go the post processing route? In the sample code the displayTransform for the view is also being passed as a SCNMatrix4. CustomMaterial custom.value only accepts a SIMD4 though. Is there another way to pass in the matrix? Another idea I've had was to create a CustomMaterial from an OcclusionMaterial which already seems to contain information about the camera feed but so far had no luck with it. Thanks for the support!
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