Bring Ideas to Life with Enscape 4.1

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Enscape is a real-time visualization and virtual reality plugin popularly used by landscape architects, designers, and other AEC professionals. It is the only real-time solution that directly integrates with popular CAD and BIM applications.

Its latest version, Enscape 4.1, lets you tap into your creativity and bring ideas to life with features such as AI asset enhancement, artistic visual modes, a new collection of vegetation assets, plus more.

Chaos AI Enhancer

Realistic assets help tell the story of your scene and communicate design intent to your client faster. Enscape 4.1 gives you the opportunity to try the Chaos AI Enhancer free in Enscape. This experimental feature uses AI to elevate Enscape’s vegetation and people assets. It improves realism in renderings without sacrificing performance.

By leveraging the knowledge of the underlying scene in Chaos’ AI engine solution, the Chaos AI Enhancer offers better results compared to other AI-generated visuals. With a simple click, you can enhance vegetation and people assets in your renderings without spending time in post-production. Just focus on designing and let AI enhance your visuals.

AI-enhanced image

Non-AI-enhanced image

Artistic visual modes

New artistic visual modes are included in the latest version of Enscape. Create visual effects that simulate pen, pencil, or watercolor drawings in real time to convey design ideas during the conceptual stage of your workflow.

This feature allows your clients to make design decisions faster by removing distractions and focusing on the general structure of the model. The modes are available for walkthroughs, screenshots, batch rendering, and video exports.

New vegetation assets

122 vegetation assets have been added to the Enscape Asset Library. The collection includes trees, plants, and shrubs native to the regions of Europe, North America, and Japan. The latest version of Enscape also includes 10 new unique people assets as well as 23 Cylindo Studio props to fill your scenes.

Enscape Impact Beta

Enscape Impact is a brand-new add-on that integrates real-time rendering with building performance analytics. Developed in partnership with IES, a leading global innovator in building design and analysis software, the beta is available to test in Enscape 4.1.

This add-on allows you to design sustainable and efficient buildings as you can assess the environmental impact of a design with minimal interruptions to your design workflow as it is seamlessly woven into the architectural process.

Colored shadows update

The colored shadows update in Enscape 4.1 includes making them available for artificial light and improving its interaction with fog for increased fidelity of fog shadows. You can also add textures to glass material and have the texture patterns reflected without having to model geometry.

Get started with Enscape 4.1

The latest version of Enscape is packed with features that let you bring your designs to life. In addition to the updates already mentioned, it also includes Chaos Cloud for easier reviews and integrated graphics support with Intel and AMD iGPUs for better Enscape accessibility.

Enscape offers a free 14-day trial for those who have yet to experience the ease and speed of an integrated design and visualization plugin. For those already using Enscape, upgrading to the latest version is free.

Published on August 7, 2024