What’s New in Enscape 4.1?

Enscape 4.1 is here! This release introduces a set of new features, including Enscape Impact and an add-on beta version that is available with 4.1, which is available to you now.

This latest version focuses on elevating visualization and performance. Its features and functionalities let you create visually stunning designs while ensuring they are viable, energy-efficient, and sustainable.

In addition to Enscape Impact Beta, 4.1 includes:

• Chaos AI Enhancer
• Artistic visual modes
• Colored shadows update
• New vegetation and people assets
• Integrated graphics support
• Chaos Cloud

Key features in Enscape 4.1

Enscape Impact Beta (Windows)

Enscape Impact is a Windows-only add-on developed in partnership with IES, a leading global innovator in building design and analysis software. It is designed to integrate real-time rendering with building performance analytics seamlessly. It features:

• Real-time energy analysis
• An integrated workflow with your chosen CAD or BIM application
• Educational tooltips and minimal data entry requirements
• Data accuracy for informed decision-making.

Enscape 4.1 gives you the chance to be one of the first to test the beta version. See how easy it can be to design sustainable and efficient buildings and eliminate the gap between energy modeling and design visualization. Enscape Impact Beta is currently available on Windows only, but a version for macOS is in the works. To access the beta, simply download Enscape 4.1 and ensure you are using a commercial license.

How does an ‘add-on’ differ from a ‘feature?’ An add-on is a supplementary tool that extends the functionality of Enscape, giving you a more intuitive and flexible way to empower your design workflow. It works together with Enscape but develops its functionality as a separate product. While the beta version comes with no added cost, there will be a cost associated with Enscape Impact’s commercial launch.

Chaos AI Enhancer

Chaos AI Enhancer is an experimental feature for active Enscape users that improves realism in your renderings without sacrificing performance. It utilizes AI to elevate Enscape assets, specifically people and vegetation, so you can enhance the entourage that helps tell your story.

Many of Enscape’s people and vegetation assets are produced in-house, adhering to a strict budget of polygons that lets you place multiple assets without loss in performance. Chaos AI Enhancer gives you better-looking assets straight from Enscape. By leveraging the knowledge of the underlying scene in our AI engine solution, Chaos AI Enhancer offers superior results compared to other AI-generated images. To keep your design intent intact, only areas with assets and vegetation are enhanced.

Realistic assets bring a project to life and help clients understand design intent faster. With just one click, you can have enhanced assets in your renderings without spending time post-processing or using additional tools. Simply focus on designing and let AI elevate your visuals.

AI-enhanced image

Non-AI-enhanced image

Artistic visual modes

Express your creativity freely with the new artistic visual modes. Create visual effects that simulate pen, pencil, or watercolor drawings to illustrate your design ideas uniquely and artistically during the conceptual stage of your workflow.

This feature lets you adjust your presentation style to your client’s needs. It removes distractions and enables them to focus on the general structure of the model, equipping them to make better design decisions faster. The new visual styles are available for walkthroughs, screenshots, batch rendering, and video exports.

The various visual modes are now available.

Colored shadows for artificial light sources

Add a splash of color to your interior scenes with colored shadows for artificial light sources. Prior to this feature’s development, colored shadows were shown only in sunlight. Now, you can see the colored shadows through colored glass when artificial lights are on.

Create an engaging atmosphere with colored glass partition walls, colored semi-transparent furniture, and decorative objects that leave a kaleidoscopic impression. You’ll see the difference in interior renderings when artificial lighting complements natural light or is the only illumination source. Make sure the hardware ray-tracing feature is enabled.

Colored sun shadows update

Last year, the colored sun shadows were introduced to Enscape. This feature creates a colored shadow from sunlight that travels through colored glass, giving your scene amazing effects and a special atmosphere – and we’ve added an update!

Now, you can add textures to the glass material and have the drop shadows reflect the texture patterns. This is a great function if you are using stained glass in your designs, as you no longer have to model the whole window geometry.

Vegetation and people assets

As with every major release,  more assets are added to the Enscape Asset Library. This time around, there are 122 new vegetation assets added to the collection. Fill your scene with trees, shrubs, and plants native to the regions of Europe, North America, and Japan.

This batch includes 10 new unique people assets for you to integrate human scale into your scenes. Speaking of people assets, in May, Enscape introduced 168 static people assets that are also part of the AXYZ library. This group of 3D assets brings even more variation with children and elderly people assets. It also includes people who are visibly from culturally diverse backgrounds.

Along with the vegetation and people assets, Enscape 4.1 includes 23 Cylindo Studio Props to create a more accurate representation of interior scenes. Whether you want to add lush landscapes to complement your building or improve the perception of proportion with an entourage, assets enable you to bring your designs to life.

Integrated graphics support

If you’re budget-constrained or cannot purchase a machine with a dedicated GPU, you’ll be delighted to hear about the introduction of integrated graphics support.

You can now use Enscape on Windows computers with Intel and AMD iGPUs (integrated graphics processing units), as the dependence on computers that have a separate dedicated GPU is no longer valid. This accessibility lets you use Enscape while working on-site or while traveling and benefit from a more flexible and cost-effective way of visualizing.

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