Tyler Lynch

I am at the finishing stages of a patch and I'm trying to output to a standalone application. It is a face tracking software that changes tracks your face/replaces it with a photo. Simple, right?

When I use the project inside of Max, it works just fine. When I output it to a standalone file, it can't find a face. The console also doesn't give me any errors. I just don't know what to do. Any advice? I can copy the patch if you'd like to look at it.

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If you are using max externals, or any js file, are you sure they are included when you build the standalone?

It would probably show an error if that was the problem, but just to be sure.

If you are using max externals, or any js file, are you sure they are included when you build the standalone?
It would probably show an error if that was the problem, but just to be sure.


Yeah there is no console error so it's hard to troubleshoot. I use jit.faces and have included that file in the build but it still doesn't work.

 help is including a [standalone] object in your main patch, and select the "include C74 resources". Other than that I can't thing of something, at least, obvious. Probably a part of the patch would help to figure it out.

Another thing that might help is including a [standalone] object in your main patch, and select the "include C74 resources". Other than that I can't thing of something, at least, obvious. Probably a part of the patch would help to figure it out.


Thanks for the reply--I have that already set up on my patch too.

I have pasted my patch below in case that helps.

Thanks for the reply--I have that already set up on my patch too. 

This is what did it for me (FYI, I tried it on Win 10, 64bit with Max 7.3.1 64bit) :

I downloaded the cv.jit lib from the Package Manager. It store it in "my documents/Max 7Packages/cv.jit". There, in the "misc" folder, are some xml files that are used by cv.jit.faces to recognise the faces, named "haarFaceCascade1 - 4". I copied those files in the standalone's misc folder, as they are not copied when you build the patch.

Before that, the standalone opened, showed the camera image but didn't recognized my face. After that, it seemed to work as expected.

I hope this helps you. Other than that I didn't noticed anything wrong with the patch.

This is what did it for me (FYI, I tried it on Win 10, 64bit with Max 7.3.1 64bit) :
I downloaded the cv.jit lib from the Package Manager. It store it in "my documents/Max 7Packages/cv.jit". There, in the "misc" folder, are some xml files that are used by cv.jit.faces to recognise the faces, named "haarFaceCascade1 - 4". I copied those files in the standalone's misc folder, as they are not copied when you build the patch.
Before that, the standalone opened, showed the camera image but didn't recognized my face. After that, it seemed to work as expected. 

I hope this helps you. Other than that I didn't noticed anything wrong with the patch. 

You are the king. I included those files in when creating the standalone but I didn't put them in misc folder. I just made sure they were included. Dropping them in after it was created works great. Oh man, thank you so much!

Can't get my application to work!