Adding 3D Particles
You can add 3D shapes like spheres and stars to particle systems in Spark AR Studio.
In this guide you’ll learn about:
- Adding 3D particles.
- Applying materials and custom textures, using our texture assets.
Download the texture reference files here. You’ll get a texture for each particle shape. Edit the texture or use it as a guide for creating your own, to make textures that fit perfectly on Spark AR Studio’s 3D particles.
Adding 3D particles
Start by adding a particle system to your project. You can download and adapt the finished effect from our particle system tutorial if you like.
Particles are a flat plane shape by default. To add 3D particles instead:
- Select the particle system in the Scene panel.
- Go to Shape in the Inspector.
You can choose from these shapes:
- Plane - the default setting.
- Cube - you can change the width, height and depth.
- Sphere - you can change the radius.
- Torus - you can change the inner and outer radius.
- Cylinder - you can change the base of the radius and height.
- Star - the number of points, inner radius, outer radius and depth can be edited.
- Triangle based pyramid - the base radius and height can be edited.
Below, we’ve selected a Cube:
Materials and textures
After you’ve selected a shape you can add a material and texture. Below we’ve added a material.
A standard material was created by default. This material is good for using on 3D objects because it provides a sense of depth:
Next we used the options in the Inspector to add a color to the material:
Using the texture reference files
Use the texture reference files to create and customize your own textures in external software. There’s a texture for each shape that you can use as a guide.
This is what the texture reference file for the cube looks like:
When you’re happy with the texture you’ve created, import it into Spark AR Studio and apply it to a material.
In the example below we've used the cube texture as a guide. We've made a texture that creates the appearance of dice when applied to a particle system with 3D cubes:
