Enhanced Software Ray Traced Sun Shadows
Software ray tracing now includes colored sun shadows and improved shadow rendering in fog, resulting in more accurate, atmospheric lighting. This applies to Ultra-quality walkthroughs and captures.
As of version 4.11, Enscape uses Chaos Cosmos as its asset delivery platform, providing a faster, more intuitive way to search, filter, and place content within your design workflow. This integration moves Enscape closer to a unified asset experience across Chaos tools like Envision, V-Ray, and Corona, making it easier to manage assets across platforms.
With the latest Cosmos update, Enscape users now have access to more than 2,000 additional assets—including new furniture, vegetation, and accessories—curated for architectural visualization.
Software ray tracing now includes colored sun shadows and improved shadow rendering in fog, resulting in more accurate, atmospheric lighting. This applies to Ultra-quality walkthroughs and captures.
This feature introduces a new approach to automatically simplifying dense scene geometry in the background. This helps maintain smooth performance and responsiveness in models with high geometric complexity.
With Selective Asset Exclusion in White Mode, you can isolate specific assets to highlight key elements. The new ''Invert Appearance'' option renders selected objects in white while the rest of the scene stays in full color. Emissive materials are now part of the ray-traced lighting system, improving global illumination, reducing noise, and enhancing realism—especially for small light sources like LED strips.
Enscape now fully supports Revit 2026, allowing you to adopt the latest version without disrupting your visualization workflow. Filters, graphics overrides, and background patterns for linked models are now accurately reflected in Enscape, ensuring your renders match your Revit views with full fidelity. Learn more >
Enscape is fully compatible with SketchUp 2025, including support for physically based materials for high-fidelity, photorealistic renderings. Sun position settings from the Environments tab now sync with Enscape, ensuring consistent lighting across live views and batch renders. Additional improvements include preserved roughness values when removing textures, and a new “Geometry Update” toggle for faster navigation and smoother batch exports.
Enscape now supports roughness textures from Rhino’s Physically Based Materials (Rhino 7 & 8), enabling more accurate material rendering and improved surface realism. This update enhances visual fidelity while maintaining full compatibility with legacy Enscape materials, ensuring a smooth transition for existing projects.
Enscape Impact Add-On
Enscape Impact helps you evaluate your building’s energy performance early in the design process, enabling more informed, sustainability-driven decisions. Access detailed performance data and easily communicate efficiency insights with clients and stakeholders.
The latest update introduces a Section Tool, allowing you to visually isolate individual floors for room-by-room performance analysis—ideal for large or multi-story projects. This visual-only feature makes analysis more focused without affecting simulation accuracy or requiring changes to your model.
Chaos Cloud 3D streaming
Chaos Cloud streaming (beta) lets you share fully interactive Enscape walkthroughs. Enable stakeholders to explore designs live, in the same high-fidelity graphics used to create them, without downloads or specialized hardware. Scenes are hosted in the cloud and accessed via link, ensuring faster feedback and clearer communication of design intent.
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