hello welcome today we're gonna update
creator cam now all my favorite
youtubers like to jabrils, brackeys,
Blackthorneprod, Dani, they're always
doing these game jams and it looks like
so much fun but I prefer little to no
human interaction so in the last video I
did one by myself hey put me down
we made a prototype and put it on the
App Store what me down I said no I
thought the prototype turned out pretty
good
unhand me human but I suffer from a very
severe case of project A.D.D so I threw it
in the trash
almost immediately not to mention I got
other projects calling my name I love
you come back to me a couple days later
I'm out skating with my friend Jerry
this is gonna be Jerry cuz he's really
tall dude brah you should put your app
on the real life doodle subreddit your
real life doodles what the hell is that...
free focus group all right boys back on
now I subscribe to the belief that you
should get your MVP out there as quick
as possible
because any work you do before user
testing is just guesswork and
potentially a huge waste of time now I
know what you're thinking but Matt
you're giving us all this advice about
making apps and you've never actually
made a successful app in your life well
that's not entirely either way I don't
know any of the intricacies involved
with the real-life doodling community
like maybe there's some artistic quality
that the app can capture or maybe the
hardcore people might say it's cheating
but this is what we need to find out so
let's make a post okay so what ended up
doing pretty well
we got like 30,000 views 97% up voted
pretty good for spending $0 so let's see
what they say oh the app is wonderful
I'm a new customer dude that app is
awesome well isn't this just fantastic
amazing it but very slow probably is on
your Android pixel potato how are you
doing the movement tracking as if I
would give away my secrets alright let's
get into the suggestions would be nice
if you had more options for mouths and
eyes okay is there a way to scale the
mouth and eyes there most certainly is
not
alright so idea successfully validated
let's get to work
first of all we need to update the UI if
you let a small child design an app in
mspaint
it would probably look better than what
I have so I tried to darken the colors a
little bit on the menu screens but I
left the buttons on the main screen
white because I found if you use darker
buttons over top of the camera feed you
can't really see them so I tied up some
other loose ends and put some tutorial
screens where I thought they might be
needed now some people were reporting
some bugs mainly around app permissions
I guess there's still a few people out
there wearing tinfoil hats that actually
decline permissions so I spent some time
handling the edge cases and I tried to
populate air modal's in places where you
need that permission to continue so
currently I have toggles for the mouth
and eyes and you just drag them to move
them around the people of Reddit wanted
to be able to rotate and scale them so I
added some rotate and scale toggles into
the app and gave it to my girlfriend to
get some user feedback
all right so try this out I don't want
to tell you how it works just see if you
can figure it out man it doesn't even
work
it's broken what do you mean it broke to
clarify the app works exactly as
intended it's just not intuitive as much
as I want my girlfriend to be wrong
she's exactly right now it took me a
minute to unpack what she meant by
broken but once I remove my ego from the
equation I realized that 99% of all app
usage comes from the big ones like
Instagram Facebook etc now all these
apps have rotate and scale functionality
so if the app doesn't work like theirs
it's going to seem broken so Instagram
in particular lets you move rotate and
scale all at the same time regardless of
how many fingers you have on the screen
it took me a little bit to figure out
that logic but I'm pretty happy with the
results all right how is it now I mean
it's better but it's still broken that's
perfect
surprisingly on reddit and nobody said
how shitty the lip-syncing was but I
figure if we're gonna update the app
such a core feature deserves a second
look I came upon this plugin by oculus
it does real-time lip-syncing SiC and it
has plug-ins for Android and iOS SiC and
it's free so this is actually really
cool in linguistics you have phonemes
which are all the different sounds your
mouth makes when you talk viz Eames are
the visual representation of those
sounds so this oculus plug-in takes
microphone input and maps the sounds to
all these visual shapes that your mouth
can make so I spent a few days testing
and integrating this with nat mic and
here's what I got hey pick me I'm the
most popular yeah but all the cool kids
play me oh you never picked me now I
really wanted this to work but my main
issue was the microphone gain being way
different on all types of Android and
iOS devices so this is still an issue
with this plug-in it works much worse on
iOS than it does on Android and not to
mention performance is not great there's
a lot more latency than with my shitty
implementation so I ended up scrapping
it and I put back what I have the next
thing the real-life doodlers suggested
was more options for items so I made
some new mouths and eyes
I added some sunglasses and then I had
an epiphany I should have had those thug
life glasses in a joint now I know
you're thinking Matt you cannot put
drug-related content in your app it was
then I realized I should just let people
upload whatever into various images they
want that way I don't have to worry
about holding these inappropriate pngs
in the app this is a little bit more
challenging but basically I use the
native gallery plug-in to let people
pull photos from the camera roll I
resaved the photos to local storage in
the app and resize them to max width and
height a 512 they get stored in a scroll
view so you can add as many as you want
and now you can use whatever drug
related paraphernalia that in one when I
scroll through the subreddit the main
thing I'm missing it might actually be
doable is animation now what we've
learned so far is that we should do some
market research check out some other
apps that do animation and just emulate
something that we know works but did I
do that I sure didn't
instead I came up with my own little
system because I figured it'd be easier
to code I think the most efficient way
to make animations would be let the user
draw one layer and then duplicate that
layer again and again with the ability
to rotate and transform the original
layer
I think the charm though of real-life
doodles is that each layer it seems to
be drawn by hand so that's what I want
after I made a main layer that you can
draw on and then you can add additional
layers which the app will cycle through
when you're no longer in the drawing
screen so you can cycle through the
layers and edit or delete frames that
you don't like all right so this Creator
cam update is live if you want to check
it out on Android or iOS I'll put the
link down in the description and you can
tell me how trashed it is in the
comments so yeah my project ad D is in
full effect I've been playing around
this little virtual assistant for work
I hooked it up to this chat bot with
Cathy Jas and I can't stop talking to it
how old are you regardless how many
times you ask for it what's your
favorite food electricity is there
enough food on earth how big is that it
is 27,000 miles across so maybe we'll do
the next video on something like that
but in the meantime I have been doing
some unity tutorials on the 3rd Aurora
YouTube channel so make sure to head
over there check that out also in
addition to our discord group my buddy
Joe char put a LinkedIn group together
so I'll put a link to that down in the
description as well so with that we'll
see you in the next one good bye
