Twinmotion Changelogs

Twinmotion 2023.2

October 30, 2023

Lumen Global Illumination and Reflections
With Lumen, indirect lighting can instantly adapt to changes in direct lighting or geometry, such as changing the position of the sun based on the time of day or opening an exterior door.

Importing Animated Objects (Early Access)
Import animated FBX, glTF and GLB files to create more sophisticated, customized and believable experiences.

Adobe Substance
Import Adobe Substance 3D parametric materials in the SBSAR file format and save them to the Twinmotion library; these can be materials you created yourself in Substance Designer or materials from one of the many material libraries available in this format.

Automotive Template
If you use Twinmotion for automotive visualization, use the new White Studio template, which provides an easy way to present your projects in a studio setting.

Improved Scene Creation
Object scattering is now not limited to just vegetation but to many more objects – including Sketchfab, Quixel and objects from the (own) library! In addition, you can see in a camera preview what effect placing objects has on the light and shadows in your final scene.

And there’s more…

• Local exposure mimics the way eyes react to different lighting conditions, preserving details in shadows and highlights.
• Improved water and glass material.
• Improved weather particles for realistic rain and snow scenes.
• WebVR supports Panorama Sets, allowing anyone in the cloud to view projects fully in VR.

Twinmotion 2023.1

April 6, 2023

New and Improved UI
A new user interface increases your productivity by bringing previously buried functionality to the surface and reducing the number of clicks it takes to access controls.

Path Tracer Update
The Path Tracer now includes support for decals (including hundreds of high-quality Quixel Megascans) and volumetric fog, as well as improved sky rendering.
The Path Tracer also contains Multi-GPU support. Computing lighting with multiple GPUs is supported through NVIDIA’s Scalable Link Interface (SLI) technology which links multiple NVIDIA GPUs together. The Multi GPU option is available in the Preferences panel under Path tracer.

Environments and Backgrounds to Fit Your Project
New templates that offer a range of interior and exterior environments to show off your design. These provide a fast and easy starting point for your visualization, including multiple camera views; simply swap in your asset for the one in the template, and you’re ready to export your media.

Epic also added several new procedural cyclorama assets to simulate curved backdrops used in product shots to make the background seemingly disappear, bringing the focus onto the product itself. The width, depth, and height can be adjusted for each asset, as well as the radius of the curves.

New and Improved Materials
This release sees a plethora of new drag-and-drop, physically based materials added to Twinmotion’s already extensive library, as well as enhancements to the base materials.
First up, 78 new materials have been added to the Fabric, Leather, Plastic, and Metal categories. Hosted on the cloud, the new materials come with 4K textures, making them suitable for close-up camera views.

Also, there has been added a new material type with dedicated parameters and features for handling effects specific to car paint, such as Flakes and Orange Peel, enabling you to simulate a wide range of finishes including chameleon and pearlescent paint. There are 34 new materials in this category.

On top of all these general improvements, the Glass base materials now have an option to use the thin translucent shading mode, and texture maps can be added to Base Color, Roughness, Metallic, and Normal channels; there are also new parameters such as Index of Refraction, Iridescence, and Imperfections. Twenty-two new materials have been added to the Glass material library as a result.

New Ready-Posed Humans and Standard Assets
300 New ready-posed humans have been added in categories such as Summer, Business, Construction, Travel, and University, and nearly a thousand standard assets in Backyard, Sports Equipment, Storage, Decoration, Bathroom, Office, and Healthcare categories—making it easy to populate a wider range of scenes with appropriate, high-quality, ready-made drag-and-drop assets.

Twinmotion Datasmith File Exporter
Twinmotion now has a built-in Datasmith file exporter, which enables you to export your project —including materials, static meshes, and textures—in a format that Unreal Engine can understand, helping ensure materials are properly applied to assets that are from the cloud.

Optimized Twinmotion File Format
The Twinmotion file format has been modified in several ways: identical meshes and textures in a project can be detected and duplication avoided in the save file; scenes are saved with multithreaded compression on multi-core hardware; and HDRI files are now considerably compressed and embedded in Twinmotion files. These changes have a positive impact on file size, scene saving and loading times, and global performance.

Unreal Engine 5.1
Twinmotion now supports Unreal Engine 5.1, which greatly improves the Viewport display compared to previous versions

LED Wall
LED walls are used to create backgrounds for the entertainment industry (shows/films/television) in order to preview the stage before performances or filming. The LED wall can be used with both Twinmotion rendering modes, Real-time and Path tracer, and has emissive properties to light up your scenes.

Non-Symmetric IES Lights
In addition to fixing certain regressions that were introduced in previous builds, the functionality of IES lights has been improved. It is now possible to import non-symmetric IES files and render them accurately.

Scaling at the Container Level
The contents of Containers in the Scene graph can now be scaled all at once by selecting the Container and using the Scale tool.

Pivot Edit Rotation
The Pivot edit tool was improved by adding the capacity to manually change the orientation of an object’s local axis.

Virtual Reality: OpenXR
All VR headsets are now supported through the OpenXR API. Please make sure your headset drivers are up to date.

Twinmotion 2022.2

August 2, 2022

Sketchfab Library Integration
Leading web modelling platform Sketchfab is now integrated into the Twinmotion library, providing drag-and-drop access to over 660,000 free assets across four Creative Commons license categories.

660 New Assets
These include high-tech objects, musical instruments, backyard objects, entertainment objects, and sports equipment, together with over 200 new posed humans, in Winter, Shopping, Children, and Sport categories.

Import lights from Design Software
Lights in Datasmith scenes are now imported as Twinmotion lights, avoiding unnecessary rework and increasing fidelity to the original scene.

Super-High-Resolution Tiled Rendering
You can render very high-resolution—up to 64K—images and videos, using a tiled rendering technique. Great for content intended for large displays such as billboards and video walls, this feature circumvents GPU memory limitations and enables high-resolution output even on lower-spec computers.

Higher-Resolution Panorama Output
You can now export Panoramas and Panorama Sets at 16K resolution for a higher-fidelity, more immersive experience.

More Complex Presentations in the Twinmotion Cloud
Twinmotion has an increased limit on RAM and VRAM usage, enabling you to create and deploy more complex and detailed presentations on the Cloud platform.

HDRI Backdrop
The new HDRI Backdrop feature enables you to place a model in the context of an environment or studio setting and to have it realistically affect the lighting on the model. Unlike the HDRI Skydome, this feature includes a ground surface that can receive shadows.

Hundreds of HDRI Environments and Studio Settings
There are 258 new HDRI environments designed to both provide background and light the model, and 30 new studio HDRIs suitable for product shots; you can change the horizon, scale, and rotation of the image to suit your needs.

Physics-based Asset Placement
This new (early access) tool enables you to use collision and gravity simulations in real-time inside the viewport for object placement. You can simply drop objects naturally inside the scene and have them collide and tumble according to their bounding boxes.

Twinmotion 2022.1

January 13, 2022

New Native Assets
Hundreds of extra 3D objects are added to the Twinmotion Native Library. They are stored in the Cloud now to not make the installer file too big to download. Click them to download and use them right away!

New Quixel Assets
Two new libraries have been added with 3D plants and Decals.

3DConnexion 3D Mice now Supported
You can now use your favourite 3DConnexion 3D Mouse in Twinmotion 2022.

Cloud Share

• You can now share your project from the cloud by sending a permanent link. The link will stay the same as your project updates!
• Add a panorama set to jump through the project.
• Works on mobile, and tablets, in trials and educational versions of Twinmotion 2022.

Path Tracer
This great new technique renders even quicker and more beautiful and is a choice. Make sure to have a DXR-ready video card with at least 8 GB RAM. Please note: macOS is not supported.

HDRI
Add one of the many shipped HDRI backgrounds to light up your scene.

Datasmith (Live)(Multi)Link
Exchange files using the Datasmith formats for the best experience and live linking. It is even possible to link files from up to 5 sessions to one Twinmotion session: Design a playground in Rhino, or a building in SketchUp and see them jointly rendered in one Twinmotion session!

CSV Material Mapping
Map your scene materials via a CSV file to get the most out of all the programs you use with instant conversion.

LiDAR Point Clouds Support
View and navigate any imported point cloud in your 3D scene in colour.

Update Prompt
Never miss an update to Twinmotion with the automatic update prompt.
Virtual Reality improvements – Set your custom rendering quality to make sure your presentation runs smoothly on any device.

Better Snow
The Snow material now supports Sub Surface Scattering for an even more realistic winter scene.

Work Fullscreen
Press F12 to work full screen while still keeping the ability to translate and navigate objects via hotkeys.

Twinmotion 2020.2

August 11, 2020

Improved Water Material
Create more realistic ponds, lakes and rivers.

Improved Puddle Effect
Simulate rainy days, with an improved effect that makes materials wetter and forms puddles in a more realistic way.

New Trees
Make your project feel at home in East Asia, with a new pack of trees focusing on the region.

New Customizable Aircraft
Create your own airline branding with customizable colour and logo placement.

Parametric & Interactive Doors
Make your scene easier to navigate with customizable doors that open automatically when people or cameras are nearby.

Animator Objects
Animate all your own objects such as doors, windows and retractable screens.

New Construction Vehicles
Add more realism to your construction site.

New Phasing Tool
Visualize your schedule and your project’s construction steps.

Twinmotion 2020.1

August 11, 2020

Volumetric Light
Atmospheric lighting effects such as fog and smoke.

Screen Space Global Illumination
Create the effect of natural-looking indirect lighting.

Sky Atmosphere
Physically based sky and atmosphere rendering.

Cinematic Depth of Field
Enhanced Depth of Field effect that matches real-world cameras.

Area Lights
A new light source to illuminate large areas.

Enhanced Emissive Material
Neon and other glowing objects now emit real light.

Twinmotion Presenter
Let clients explore your project in a standalone viewer.

X-Ray Material
Visualize where pipes and vents are going through walls.

Note Tool & BCF Export
Add notes and export them back to your BIM software in BCF format.

Vegetation Growth
Visualize the growth of vegetation over many years.

New Vegetation Scattering Tool
Quickly and easily apply vegetation across a large area.

New Highly Detailed Vegetation
Trees that come in three ages and four seasons, and photo-scanned bushes.

Enhanced Grass Customization
Change the colour, height, or dryness of grass.

Enhanced Vegetation Paint Tool
Thicken or thin vegetation to get the look you want.

Rhino Direct Link
Synchronize your CAD data from Rhino in one click.

Video Materials
Import video as a material to simulate animated features.

New Photoscanned Characters
New high-quality photo-scanned 3D characters with motion-captured animation.

Twinmotion 2019

June 21, 2018

• Interactive VR menu: set the weather, time of day, or the materials for better 3D immersion in the project
• Product manager: follow Twinmotion news (updates, new plug-ins, etc.)
• Reflection probes for creating realistic mirrors
• Clay render
• Perspective correction to straighten your project’s vertical lines
• Camera alignment to a surface
• Switch views (top, right, left, front, back and iso) for easily placing and aligning objects;
• Measure tool to place dimensions in your visualisations
• Optimized renderings
• Enriched libraries – flags, construction packs, decals and more
• Compass: set your project’s geographic north direction
• Optimized synchronization with ArchiCAD and Revit
• And much more!

Twinmotion 2018.2

December 18, 2017

Compatibility with Oculus Touch and HTC Vive controllers
Users can immerse themselves in BIMmotion using VR controllers too while the VR mode is activated.

New environment setting options
More environmental options — including Sun power, Ambient power and White balance — are added to Twinmotion, which allow you to customize the environment in real-time.

Overdraw
Overdraw defines the percentage of additional pixels rendered virtually during exports (the final export resolution stays the same). By adding overdraw to your output media (image or video), the quality of the output will be improved, especially the reflections.

New Library Sources

• Water materials
• 18 Particles, including fire, smoke, waterfall, fountains, fog, etc…
• 22 Interior plants
• 2 animation options added for disabled characters (wheel chair)

Texture Preview
The thumbnail of an imported texture is added to the texture menu. Duplicate material is also possible with this update.

Statistics
Statistics function is added to the right panel, under the list of Phasing / BIM Information / Transform. The statistics show you information including: FPS, GPU/CPU usage, File loading time, counter of polygons/objects/textures, last image render time and last video render time.

Batch Rendering
The export dock is reworked to allow the batch rendering of the four different media.
Compatibility with Artlantis 6.5

Two New Saving Features

• The Auto save option is activated through the Preferences menu. Its function is to save a copy of your file at pre-defined intervals. You could also define the number of saves and their destination in the preferences window. The Autosave option is deactivated by default.
• Incremental save is activated through the save menu options. Its function is to save a copy of the file you are working on, so you can backtrack to a previous version.
  Several optimizations and enhancements improving stability and workflow.

Twinmotion 2018.1

Juli 31, 2017

Now on Mac!
Thanks to a new rendering engine, Twinmotion is now fully compatible with Mac!*
* Do pay attention to the considerable hardware specifications

Unreal Render Engine*

• Better quality and faster performance
• Beautiful materials
• Beautiful objects
• Beautiful effects

* Please note: Twinmotion 2018 will not open projects from earlier versions

Object Animation
Make your doors, windows and fences turn or slide open for you.

Sounds
Hear footsteps and conversations of people in the scene, the whistling of birds, rain, alarms, street musicians and more. Even your footsteps can be heard and can vary, depending on the surface you are walking on.

Create the Weather
Weather effects such as snow and rain have become increasingly realistic. Rain and snow are particles and interact with the scene, rain causes splashes where they land.

Bring in Any Map and Create a 3D City
The maps-functionality is back and even offers the option to import 3D buildings to form a context. The buildings show up as white masses in your presentation to emphasize your design!

Compatible with the Latest VR Goggles
Such as the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.

Make 360-Degree Panoramas and Videos
View a recorded 360-degree movie interactively.

Decals
Stick decals on your design, for example, manholes, lane stripes, zebra paths or graffiti.

Realtime Synchronization
Realtime Synchronization with ArchiCAD & Revit

Twinmotion 2016.2

Juli 5, 2016

Panorama Export
Twinmotion can now export a project in a web-based panorama viewer or in an iVisit360 file for use on tablets an smartphones.

Oculus Rift CV1 Support
The Oculus Rift CV1 can be used in the immersive view (F11) and BIMmotion.

Improved Oculus Rift DK2 Support
Support for the Oculus Rift DK2 has been improved.

ArchiCAD Support
Twinmotion is now compatible with the .tma file format, which can be exported directly from ArchiCAD 20.

TIF support
Support for the .tif texture format has been added to Twinmotion.

Twinmotion 2016.1

february 22, 2016

Oculus Rift Support (New in SP1)
Get the VR sensation in the immersive view (F11) and in BIMmotion while wearing an Oculus Rift!

Sections (New in SP1)
Sections are used to cut through your project. Twinmotion allows up to 32 sections at the same time. Choose from the two section types: cubic and spherical.

BIMmotion
A free self-executable file (mono/stereo) that includes your model and the Twinmotion engine. Your client can view your projects on his own machine (Windows 7 – 10) and change perspective, follow an animation, move freely in 3D or on a pre-defined path, and even evaluate different project alternatives.

Project Phasing
View the project at the different stages of progress. Every phase of the construction can be staged and evaluated.

True Landscape
To create a landscape, you can use the Twinmotion terrain library or import your own point cloud or 3D mesh. It will automatically be converted into a Twinmotion landscape, which you can edit, sculpt, paint and revegetate.

Library Updates
Twinmotion 2016 offers even more realistic materials, objects, vegetation and characters (including cyclists). New animated objects are cranes, boats and wind turbines. There is also a new category: fountains.

Graphics Optimizations
Twinmotion is up to 25% faster with the calculation and display of your images. Real-time views can be up to 200% faster if you use the new, lower display quality available in ‘Draft’ mode.

Fingertip Navigation
Use a joystick (XBOX 360, XBOX One, Thrustmaster, Logitech, PS4) to navigate through Twinmotion or BIMmotion.

Even More Compatibility
Twinmotion offers a new SketchUp import functionality and plugins for Revit 2014 / 2015 / 2016.

Automatic Updates
Update patches will be downloaded automatically and applied to the software.

Twinmotion 2016

14 december 2015

BIMmotion
A free EXE file (mono/stereo) that contains your model and the Twinmotion engine. Your client can then view your Twinmotion projects on their own machine (Windows 8 and 10), modify perspectives, follow animations, freely navigate in 3D or along a defined path, and even evaluate various project alternatives.

Project Phasing
View the project at various stages of progress. Each phase of construction can be visualized and evaluated.

Real Landscape
To create a landscape, you can use the Twinmotion terrain library, but you can also import your own point cloud or mesh. This will automatically be converted into a Twinmotion landscape, which you can edit, sculpt, paint, and plant.

Library Updates
Twinmotion 2016 offers even more realistic materials, objects, vegetation, and characters (including cyclists). New animated objects include cranes, boats, and wind turbines. There is also a new category: fountains.

Graphics Optimizations
Twinmotion is up to 25% faster in calculating and rendering your images. The real-time preview can be up to 200% faster if you choose the new ‘Draft’ mode with a lower resolution display.

Fingertip Navigation
Use a joystick (XBOX 360, XBOX One, Thrustmaster, Logitech, PS4) to navigate through Twinmotion or BIMmotion.

Increased Compatibility
Twinmotion offers a new SketchUp import functionality and plugins for Revit 2014/2015/2016.

Automatic Updates
Update patches are automatically downloaded and applied to the software.