Enscape Changelogs

Enscape 4.2

October 29, 2024

Enscape Impact
A new add-on for building performance analysis within Enscape, enabling architects and designers to quickly conduct real-time energy performance assessments during the early design phase. This supports better-informed decisions that promote sustainability and efficiency.

Revit Graphics Override
Renders material and color overrides as defined by Revit Filters.

Support for WCS Mapping in Rhino
Utilizes World Coordinate System (WCS) mapping for materials, ensuring a more flexible workflow and accurate, real-world scale.

Software Ray-Tracing Improvements
Introduces software-based ray tracing for global illumination and sun shadows, delivering high-quality renders on Macs and machines with integrated graphics.

Multiple Section Planes for Rhino
Supports up to six section planes in Rhino, providing more detailed cross-sectional visualizations and improved design precision.

Artistic Visual Modes Improvements
Updated texture controls in Watercolor mode, with Colored Pencil and Watercolor modes now displaying transparent material tints accurately.

Enscape 4.2

July 31, 2024

Enscape Impact (Beta)
A dedicated module for seamlessly integrating real-time rendering with building performance analysis, enabling optimization of design efficiency and sustainability directly within the visualization workflow.

Analyze energy efficiency and environmental impact of buildings. Visualize which spaces have the highest energy consumption, where heating or cooling is needed, and where solar energy works best.

This module can be tested for free until the release of Enscape 4.2 (expected in October) as part of the Enscape product suite. Currently, the module is only available for Windows users.

AI Enhancer
Automatically enhance the realism of people and vegetation in your project, speeding up your work while delivering superior visual quality.

Artistic Modes
Transform renderings into striking pencil or watercolor drawings—ideal for conceptual phases to uniquely express design intent and engage clients. Available for screenshots, batch rendering, panoramas, and video.

Colored Shadows in Glass
Users can now apply textures to glass materials with shadows that reflect these patterns, perfect for stained glass effects without needing to model complex window geometries.

New Vegetation and People
Enjoy 122 new vegetation assets and 10 unique people assets to populate scenes with trees and plants from Europe, North America, and Japan, as well as a selection of people in various outfits and poses.

Integrated Graphics Support
Enscape now supports Windows computers with Intel and AMD iGPUs (integrated graphics processing units), making it accessible to more than just computers with discrete physical GPUs.

Enscape 4.0

March 27, 2024

Enscape for Mac Platform Alignment
Now, users on macOS can seamlessly enjoy the same robust features that Windows users have long celebrated. The macOS features added specifically for this release include:

• Adjustable assets
• Dynamic asset placement
• Custom Asset Library
• Custom Asset Editor
• Site context
• BIM data
• Collaborative annotations

Enhanced Vegetation and People Assets
Elevate your designs with over 170 new vegetation assets and over 30 different people assets.

NVIDIA Denoiser for Capture Exports
Experience smoother, cleaner visuals with Enscape’s cutting-edge denoising solution, powered by NVIDIA ReLAX technology.

V-Ray Scene Export Update
Transfer geometry, 3D assets, lights, materials, and camera position via the .vrscene exporter.

Sleeker UI Design
Enjoy an enhanced user experience with blue shades and stylish icons for better readability and visual clarity.

Support for Rhino 8.3
Use Enscape 4.0 with the latest version of Rhino and work seamlessly within your preferred environment.

Windows only improvements *

• VR support for Meta Quest 3 and HTC Vive Pro 2
• Collaborate more efficiently in shared projects in Revit
• Raytraced artificial light for extra realism (beta)
• Improved reflections and global illumination
• Intel ARC GPU support

*Due to platform limitations, some features will be available only on Windows.

Additional info about Enscape 4.0 can be found here.

Enscape 3.5

May 16, 2023

Adjustable Assets
With the new Adjustable Asset series, users can change the material, colour, or variation of certain Enscape assets. Furniture materials can be altered, clothing colours of certain people’s assets can be changed, and exact colours can be chosen for each of the 91 vehicles in Enscape. Alternative assets can also be seen for trees and plants, specifically autumnal trees and unpotted plants. All assets with this new functionality can be found by filtering using the tag “Adjustable”.

Improved Lighting and Reflections
Enscape 3.5 includes improvements to its global illumination algorithm, which delivers enhanced lighting, reflections, and rendering quality to users with GPUs that support hardware-accelerated ray tracing. Users will see an improvement in the quality of indirect lighting, especially in interior scenes, resulting in more realistic and high-quality visualizations. Additionally, users will experience more consistent lighting and precise shading in mirror reflections. This feature is available for users with NVIDIA RTX or AMD RX 6000/7000 series graphics cards.

New 3D People Assets
53 people were added to the Enscape Asset Library in January 2023. These are real people who have been scanned with our in-house 3D scanner. The library continues to grow with a new batch of 40 people that allow clothing customization with Enscape 3.5 and will get more diverse over time. Plans are also in place to start scanning more animals and helpful objects using this same technology. The scanned people assets are exclusive to Enscape and will be available in Chaos Cosmos shortly. They can be found by filtering for the tag “Exclusive”.

Alpha Channel Export Improvement
Users can now export renderings with a transparent background, facilitating editing and post-processing in other tools. Users can also export semi-transparent materials, such as windows and glass surfaces, reducing the amount of time required for refining these materials during post-processing.

Orthographic Views Update for Revit
Enscape 3.5 allows for the synchronization of orthographic views between Revit and Enscape. Any orthographic view created or edited in Enscape will be reflected in Revit, and the crop region in Revit will match the Enscape viewport. This synchronization is bi-directional, meaning that users can adjust the crop region in Revit to modify the view in Enscape as well.

Certified SpaceMouse Support
With Enscape 3.5, it is possible to customize mouse controls through shortcut buttons on the SpaceMouse itself. This will make it easier for users to use a SpaceMouse and navigate a 3D model in conjunction with Enscape.

Layer Assignment of Assets in Rhino
In previous versions, when an Enscape asset was placed into a project, Rhino would assign it to the Default Layer. Now when placing assets in Rhino or Enscape, they will be placed in the currently selected layer.

A New User Area in the Toolbar
Users can now access their account directly from the Enscape toolbar. This will make it easier for them to manage and check their license status, and manage web stand-alone, and panoramas.

Revit 2024 Support
Enscape 3.5 supports the latest version of Revit – 2024.

Enscape™ for Mac

July 27, 2022

Real-Time Visualization
Visualize models in real-time in the Enscape rendering window.

Real-Time Walkthrough
Navigate rendered projects with the walk, fly, and perspective modes.

Export Options
Export and share design ideas with still renders, 360-degree panoramas, and web standalone options.

Visual Settings
Use a range of atmosphere, image, capture, and rendering settings to create the perfect look.

Material Editor
Use height maps and adjust textures to increase the level of realism.

Synchronized Views
Have the Enscape rendering window show the same view as the project.

Enscape Asset Library
Choose from more than 3,000 high-quality, low-poly 3D models to add to a project.

Manage Views
Create saved views to easily refer back to a project and seamlessly present it from the best angles.

Batch Rendering
Render views in batches to save time in rendering them individually.

Panorama Tour
Create a navigation mode within the Panorama Gallery to easily share designs.

Language Support
Enscape for Mac is available in English, French, Dutch, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, and Polish.

Features like Virtual Reality, video and standalone export, objects as light and sound sources and custom library will be added later.

Enscape™ 3.4

July 27, 2022

Categories for the Custom Asset Library
The Categories for the Custom Asset Library allow you to organize and structure your (imported) custom assets. The categories let you filter for assets so you can find the one you want within a few clicks, giving you a faster workflow. With every category you create, you can give it a name and an icon.

Interior Design Assets and Materials
The asset and material theme for this release is interior design with 210 new assets and 52 new materials.

Save Enscape Sun Position in Views
This feature lets you save your sun position in views. Before this, the sun positions you adjusted (only with keyboard shortcuts) would reset whenever you restarted Enscape. Slider controls and input fields are provided so you can easily reproduce specific sun positions for other views.

Update Views
You can now edit the camera position and sun position for existing saved views. Before this, you were only able to change the name and visual preset for existing views.

Improved Reflections
The reflections in windows or interior mirrors will be more complex and show more details by default with the new version. Users don’t have to do anything extra as this automatically updates with Enscape 3.4.

Enscape™ 3.3

April 6, 2022

Site Context
Import geometry and topology from real-world sites to renders, giving context to design scenes easily.

Alpha Channel Export
Render an image with a transparent background, reducing the time and effort spent in post-processing. Ideal for product renders!

Education Assets
New assets and materials can be used in the theme of Education, but they can be used for non-educational projects as well.

Additional Enscape™ 3.3 Improvements

• SketchUp 2022 support
• The option that the Enscape rendering window will always be on top of the CAD window
• Overwrite material with something from the Enscape Material Library
• Option to migrate uploads (web standalone and panoramas) to a user account
• Transparent materials will be shown in reflections (only with NVIDIA RTX and AMD RX6 series video cards)

Enscape™ 3.2

November 24, 2021

Dynamic Asset Placement
With the new Dynamic Asset Placement, users can select, place, and edit assets from the Asset Libraries into their designs via the Enscape™ rendering window. Everything added to the rendering is instantly reflected in the modelling software, offering a two-way asset placement. Users can rotate, scale, and delete an asset, and all changes will sync back to the project. Exact editing functions and capabilities will depend on the modelling software used. Multi-asset placement is also now available to quickly populate scenes with assets such as trees, cars, and people, directly inside Enscape™.

Batch Panorama and Panorama Tours
With the new Batch Panorama, users can now render multiple panoramas, such as an image, mono panorama, or stereo panorama, at once. Panorama Tours are also available to guide clients and prospects better through proposed designs – third-party tools are no longer required.

Green Building Assets and Materials
With the growing demand and need for sustainable architecture, users can now enjoy a new collection of over 150 green building assets, including a diverse range of trees, plants, and flowers often used within green building design. Wind turbines, electric power stations, two additional electric vehicles, drones, a scooter, and even a passenger drone, have also been added to this update. Users will also get access to roughly 25 green building materials such as organic bricks, a bamboo fence, recycled plastic, a straw wall, hay plastic, solar modules, printed concrete, clay plaster, solar roof tiles, wood materials, and rammed earth.

New Materials and People Assets
Enscape™ 3.2 also includes around 30 new highly requested materials such as wallpapers, tiles, marble, granite, leather, plaster, and rubber tar. Users can also add approximately 50 new people assets to their scenes.

Ray-Traced Sun Shadows
Shadow sharpness and accuracy are further improved with this release by extending ray-traced sun shadows to videos and real-time walkthroughs (independent of whether rest mode is activated or not).

Upload Management Overhaul
To bring the Upload Management feature in line with the rest of the product and provide users with a more intuitive workflow, the UI for this particular element of Enscape™ has been redesigned. Uploads will now be grouped by type and product, and function indicators have been improved.

Enscape™ 3.1

July 22, 2021

New Material Library
Choose from predefined high-quality materials that are ready to use within your projects. Over 200 materials have been created, including materials such as wood, fabric, brick, and tile.

Material Editor Overhaul
Now it’s quicker and easier to identify materials with a color and material type indicator in the material list. There is also a new self-illuminated material type, new icons, controls, and map tabs for improved usability. Additionally, you can import and export material packages from within the Material Editor.

Support for NVIDIA DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling)
Enscape 3.1 comes with NVIDIA DLSS technology, which automatically improves performance. The deep learning-based upscaling technique renders internally at a lower resolution but outputs a clean and sharp high-resolution image for both high-quality videos and high-performance virtual reality walkthroughs. So, rendering time decreases, and quality increases. This latest technology is available to users with an NVIDIA RTX graphics card.

Panorama Gallery
With the new Panorama Gallery, you can group and share multiple panoramas at the same time – perfect for showcasing multiple rooms or comparing different variants of a design. This can be managed via the Uploads section of the Enscape License Center and allows consumers to access more than one panorama at a time via the web browser.

Material Editor for Revit
To help improve the Revit and Enscape material workflow, Enscape 3.1 introduces a basic Material Editor for Revit. This editor will support the ‘General’ material type, allowing you to apply video textures, self-illuminating materials, and displacement maps within Enscape itself. No more workarounds are required!

Simplified Assets
A range of simplified assets that are low poly and come with a simple, white appearance. This initial batch includes assets like people, buildings, vegetation, furniture, and vehicles. Ideal for use in the early design phase.

Ray-Traced Sun Shadows
You can now enjoy even higher-quality renderings and realism with new ray-traced sun shadows. Sharper and more accurate shadows will enhance the quality of your renders and can be enjoyed in any exported image, panorama exports, and rest mode in a walkthrough. This latest technology is available to users with an NVIDIA RTX graphics card.

Enscape™ 3.0

March 9, 2021

New User Interface

• Improved visual setting workflow management
• Relocation of functions from the plugin toolbar to the renderer toolbar
• A new structure for displaying information in the renderer
• A new video timeline view and a change to video keyframes: V = video editor and K = keyframe

Local Assets
333 New assets which focus on iconic or specific assets to local regions. These include vehicles, objects, and species of trees and shrubs to help the user produce more authentic, regional experiences within 3D designs.

Video Editor Improvements
The video editor has a new streamlined workflow. Now, all aspects of the video creation process are visible, without the need for diving into sub-menus. There is also a new timeline view for faster and easier video creation and editing.

Batch Rendering for Vectorworks
Vectorworks users can now batch render a set of images, allowing them to render multiple images at once, significantly speeding up their rendering time.

Faster Loading for Textures
Enscape now supports simultaneous loading of texture images (used in materials), which results in significantly faster loading times.

Setting Presets Connected to 3D Views
Previously, visual presets, including fog, cloud, or lighting settings, were only applied when doing batch renderings. Now, the visual settings are applied in real time when switching between views.

PLUS – Sleek New Branding!
In addition to the redesigned user interface, Enscape also has a new appearance with a brand-new logo!

Enscape™ 2.9

November 5, 2020

Custom Asset Library
The Custom Asset Library allows you to add tailor-made assets to your design. This expert feature is perfect for when you want to insert something from your collection.

Video Textures
Create visual intrigue by adding video as a surface texture in your projects. This feature will allow you to apply animated televisions, monitors, and video screens so you can further illustrate reality in your projects.

Displacement Maps
Sharpen the level of detail in a scene with Displacement Maps. Give your designs a greater sense of depth from every angle and include self-shadowing without having to do any extra modelling work.

Fitness Assets
Lift your designs with new fitness-themed assets. With assets such as gym equipment and people exercising, you can fill your fitness studio project or outdoor neighbourhood scene with life and detail.

Enscape™ 2.8

July 21, 2020

Collaborative Annotation
This enables you to highlight issues within a project to your team. Accelerate decision-making and provide greater transparency.

Animated Vegetation
Give animations a more lively atmosphere. Impress clients and win assignments by adding moving trees and lush gardens to complement your building designs.

New Assets
Bring life to your renderings with over 400 new assets, including a special healthcare package, 100 new furniture with improved texture and 70 new indoor plants.

Enscape™ 2.7

february 26, 2020

Orthographic Views
Easily create floor plans and sections, thanks to Esncape’s addition of orthographic views.

Asset Library Expansion
The Asset Library has been expanded with new categories and detailed content, such as lamps and surrounding buildings.

BIM Data
Important data is now visible in Enscape’s BIM mode, such as dimensions, types of material, quantities and even prices. This function is currently only available for Revit and ArchiCAD.

Additional Features

• Batch Rendering
• Reproduce render based on present settings
• Improved clouds and atmospheric effects
• Improved area lights (spheres, lines and rectangles)
• Improved shading of partially transparent surfaces, such as curtains

Enscape™ 2.6

December 25, 2019

Lighting & Reflections
Completely overhauled lighting calculation algorithms offer better reflections and accurate indirect lighting for stunning realism.

Revamped Settings
Save settings directly in the CAD file, enabling easy sharing with colleagues for the same result.

Asset Library Expansion
The Asset Library has been expanded with new categories and detailed content.

Additional Features

• ArchiCAD material editor
• MSI installer
• Numerical input is possible on settings sliders
• Revit: Multiple asset placement functions
• Reduced memory usage by downsampling larger textures
• Rift S controllers now visible in virtual reality
• Improved sun shadows for renders
• Full Revit 2020 support

Enscape™ 2.5

April 4, 2019

Asset Library Expansion
The Asset Library is now web-based and has been expanded with new categories and detailed content.

Material Editor for Rhino
The new Material Editor for Rhino lets you create materials specifically for your Enscape model and gives you a handy overview of all the materials applied.

New Material: Clear Coat
New material options to optimize the look of your cars and enamel items: imitate automotive paint or the high gloss of varnished wood.

Video Editor Improvements
Smoother path and rotation and improved usability.

Additional Features

• Improved lighting performance and artificial light shadows
• Shadow sharpness setting
• Enhanced fog settings
• Increased grass rendering distance and performance
• New horizon presets
• SketchUp 2019 support
• Improved outlines
• Textures in off-screen reflections
• Increased max texture resolution