v1.1.1 (April 27, 2022) | TikTok Effect House

Highlights:

Added new Face Inset and Body Avatar Drive templates
Added new functional nodes for Visual Scripting logic
Body Avatar Drive supports 3D character body movement.

New features

New templates
- Face Inset maps a selected facial feature to other areas of the screen.
- Character Drive supports 3D character body movement.

New Visual Scripting nodes
- Video Record
  - Added a full event cycle of video recording events: on start, recording, on stop, and not recording.
  - Video Record on Start and Video Record on Stop have been merged into one node.
- Min, Max
  - Now has “add pins” to compare more than 2 values (25 max).
- Finger Touch 1-Point
  - A full cycle of touch events for a single touch.
- Flip-Flop
  - Alternates between A and B executions.
- Dot
  - Supports Vec2, Vec3, and Vec4.
- Cross
  - Supports Vec3, and Vec4 (CrossXYZ).
- Normalize (Vector)
  - Supports Vec2, Vec3, and Vec4.
- Effect Resolution Info
  - Gets final resolution of a 9:16 canvas based on target device spec rating. Currently, this will always be in a 9:16 ratio.

Updates

Panels
- Account logout is now supported on the Homepage panel.
- JPG format files are now supported as effect thumbnails on the Submission panel.
- The effect hint list on the Submission panel has been updated.
Rendering and post-processing
- Sparkling speed adjustment is now supported with Bling.
Face effects
- Face Sticker provides the option to select up to 5 different featured faces to an effect.
Visual Scripting
- Node Update
  - Video Record on Start and Video Record on Stop have been deprecated.
  - Equate can compare if a value sits in between or outside a domain.
  - Data Convert supports Number to Vec2, Vec3, Vec4, Color, and String.
  - Face Detection now has Face Count as an output.
  - Normalize (Number) has been changed to Normalize to Range.
  - Add and Multiply now support “add pins” (25 max).
- UI Improvement
  - The Search Panel node now supports filtering nodes with input types that can be switched when dragging out of a port.
  - Shortcuts available on Search Panel:
    - = Equal
    - > Greater
    - < Less
    - ! Negate
    - ? Nil
    - & And
    - + Add
    - – Subtract
    - x Cross Multiply
    - * Multiply
    - / Divide
    - % Mod
    - ^ Pow
  - Increased the selection area of the node port and connection line.
  - Shift/Cmd + Click drag can now select multiple nodes and lines.
  - Added the Comment icon on the Graph Top Bar as a shortcut.
  - The upper left corner of a node will now match the position of the mouse cursor when it is pasted.
  - Removed the auto selection of the first node in Search Panel. It can be now selected with the”up” or “down” key.
  - The background color of string input has changed from black to gray.

Bug fixes

Resolved a crash issue that occurred while undo adding the Transform 2D component to a 3D object attached under the Canvas object.
Resolved select login issues experienced with Effect House v1.0.0.
Resolved an occasional crash issue caused by using 3D Animation Controller.
Fixed crash issues caused by switching to Webcam in Preview.
A setting in one Face Binding component can now be copied and pasted into another component.
Previously, Max node in Visual Scripting would return 0 only when it had negative numbers as the inputs. This has been resolved.
Corrected the Screen Hold node output type.

Known issues

You may experience a software crash in Effect House V1.0.0 if you open projects that were created with Effect House V1.1.1.
Bling texture size will show smaller than expected while using Effect House for the Mac Apple Chip (M1). To prevent this, please preview the effect on TikTok instead.
If you apply the built-in Camera Texture to Image, this texture might disappear after you save and reopen the project.
You may experience a software crash if you switch the input value type of a Subgraph that already has an input node connected to it.