I am not very well versed in design or programming and probably have no business using 8th wall, but I love to create and I love to learn. That said, I am trying to use 8th wall for AR around my retail space. I have videos to start with and I am trying to upload them to 8th wall so that I can set them to autoplay on an image target. My problem is navigating the software. I have the javascript written, and the code to ensure the assets are referenced, but I can’t find where to insert the code. I used some image target tutorial, but that won’t let me use my own videos. When I open an empty project there is no option to insert the body.html or the .js.
My apologies for needing the fundamentals explained to me, but I have sought out experts to hire for this as well and I have gotten zero responses. Now I’m back to trying to do it myself and I’m hoping someone in this forum will be kind enough to light the way. Or, perhaps someone here is interested in some work?
It sounds like you’re viewing legacy documentation but using Studio which doesn’t use the typical head.html, body.html, etc. that legacy project do.
I’d recommend checking out our video here that explains how to work with custom code in Studio:
Additionally, if you haven’t already I would reccomend taking a look at our Studio Image Targets sample project which has a Space designed for showing videos over Image Targets.
Ok the tutorials were very helpful, but I still ran into an issue. I have a flat image target and I have a .mp4 as a child of that target. The .mp4 will not show up over the image or autoplay. I tried creating a “Video” space to mimic the one in the Studio Image Targets sample project, but that project uses Prefab video tools that seems much more advanced. Is there a way to use a generic video over flat Image Target template or is there a general Prefab item that can be added to an empty project?
If you have the video in your assets folder (.mp4), you can add the video as the texture to an object. In most cases the object would be a Plane mesh and then you’d add the video to the “Color” property of the Material.
I can help you get your 8th Wall setup working the way you described, image targets, autoplay, all of it.
You are not missing much; the structure just takes a bit of getting used to.
Happy to walk you through it or handle the build if you prefer.
