i can swap my model by raising my pinkies let me show you how live 2d just got webcam
hand tracking and it works amazingly this is going to change live 2d in ways that we've never seen
before so what exactly are we talking about the latest youtube studio added hand tracking and
hand gestures that's right you can now activate hotkeys with your hands no longer do you need
a stream deck or pressing multiple buttons on a keyboard to trigger any hotkeys you can just hold
up your pinkies to swap models and then hold up three fingers to send to that model i don't know
if i'll ever touch a keyboard again the best part all of this is just with the webcam that means
you can track your face hands and hotkeys with just a webcam now before we hop into how to set
this up and everything you can do i do need to mention your hands won't start magically moving
they have to be specially rigged for movement by your modeler here's the list of parameters they'll
need if it seems like gibberish to you don't worry it'll make sense to them i also just want to say
that if you haven't swapped over to v2 studio i don't know what you're doing because if this is
any indication of how they're going forward this program will smash all the competition also like
and comment it helps me out way more than you know alright let's dive into this now as of right now
you do need the beta version of youtube studio to access this and it is only on pc not mac if
you already know how to access the beta version you can skip ahead to this point in the video
but if you don't here's how first you'll navigate to v2 studio on your steam page then you'll click
manage then properties go to betas enter the code painpeco1234 and then click on the v tube
studio beta after it updates you're good to go so now that we have the beta all set up to find the
settings for hand tracking they're actually in the same place as your regular webcam settings but now
in the tracking type you can select only face only hand or both face and hand tracking so yes you can
use a webcam for everything or if you still enjoy the advanced facial tracking of an iphone you can
use it in conjunction with a webcam to get your hand gestures with that enabled you can now go
to the hotkey section and there's a new gesture trigger underneath the key combination section
when selected it brings up a window of all the available gestures there are currently 14 they can
be toggled to use one hand both or either which means we have tons of options to pick from down
below we see a few settings as well as a window that shows your hands when the webcam detects them
pretty useful for checking how things will react before you set up all your hotkeys in the settings
section the seconds until detection increases the amount of time it takes for a gesture to activate
and deactivate so keep that in mind allow mirror gesture allows the other hand to make
that same gesture and have it activate finally deactivate expression when gesture not detected
turns it off when it can't see your hands anymore for most people you'll probably want this option
on to choose a hand gesture you can click on left right or the plus sign that will tie it to your
left hand or right hand but if you selected both you'll see an and or option now you can choose to
have it activate when either hand does the action or only trigger it when both do so now that you've
turned on everything what can you do with this well because this all ties back into hotkeys it
can do everything from the following list play animation change idle animation set expressions
move your model change your background reload your microphone reload your model calibrate your webcam
change models take screenshots and turn on the dynamic lighting filter wow i actually said that
all in one breath this really will change how you use the program i've already set up a few gestures
that i'm going to use all the time with some of these gestures mimicking real-life movement
like an open hand you can now wave at your viewers literally that's without even mentioning that we
have real hand tracking i wouldn't be surprised if this becomes a common addition to high-end
models going forward because if you can track fingers with a webcam we're practically pushing
into 3d territory everyone should test this out it's going to be so much fun artists especially
i see this being very useful for now you don't have to take your hands off the drawing pad to
push a button you can just make a peace sign at the camera and have hard eyes we're going
to continue to see live 2d reach new limits and i'm so excited now if you need help setting up
the basics for v tube studio i recommend this video and i'll see you all next time