Enscape’s speed, ease of use, and light system requirements have made it a standard for anyone working on building design and visualization. Thanks to its unique direct integration with the design application, it really is the fastest way to go from model to actionable real-time visualization.
But we know that some users want more capabilities, such as moving assets and more powerful animations. Since Enscape is a plugin-based renderer, adding these types of options would significantly decrease performance and make Enscape much more difficult to learn and use.
We’re focused on keeping Enscape as efficient and simple to use as possible and will continue to enhance it to support your daily design decisions. At the same time, we want to offer you a seamless way to create more complex animations and visualizations.
With a new tool just launched in beta, we’re excited to share that you can now export your Enscape scenes into a fully ray-traced environment where you can easily assemble and create impressive architectural animations!
Think ray-traced photorealism. Think rapid animation. Think large scene handling with realistic moving humans and easy crowd simulation. Introducing Chaos Envision, a new 3D assembly and animation tool for effortless storytelling with unmatched realism 🎞️.
What is Chaos Envision?
Envision is a new tool for Enscape users and architectural visualizers who want to take their visualizations further than is currently possible with their design tools. It’s ideal for quickly creating high-quality animated visualizations, preparing photorealistic visuals, and assembling large and complex scenes from design projects.
- Assemble and explore scenes that can’t be accommodated in design tools.
- Quickly produce approval-winning animations.
- Combine elements from different design tools, e.g., Revit and Rhino.
- Produce, compare, and present design variations.
- Take Enscape visualizations further with Envision's extended visualization capabilities.
Envision supports very large scenes without lagging, realistic crowds, object manipulation, and unlimited variations for design exploration and creative animations.
You can effortlessly create cinematic presentations with advanced animation capabilities, including path-guided crowds, making storytelling easier and closer to real life.
The first iteration of Envision is now available in open beta for Windows. Try it for free, and let us know what you think!
What sets Envision apart
Envision helps you to showcase your design with ray-traced photorealism, endless variations, and smooth, uninterrupted workflows, ensuring your project is always presented at its best.
This is just the beta, but already there are a few things that set Envision apart 😍.
Real-time advanced animation
Envision’s 3D animation for architectural visualization is both powerful and easy to use — from moving objects on paths to coordinating crowds of animated humans, from showing construction phasing to design variations and sun studies. You’ll have fun seeing what you can create!
Massive scene support & seamless scaling
Envision effortlessly handles massive scene sizes. It offers robust scene assembly with granular control, so you won't need to worry if your scene is getting too large. Additionally, thanks to scene scaling, as your scenes get bigger, you can take advantage of advanced visualization features, such as animation, without the performance or image quality degrading.
Scene manipulation at object level
Enjoy greater creative editing by being able to manipulate specific objects in a scene. Manipulate transformations like position, rotation, and scale, as well as material assignments, grouping, and instancing, for both referenced scenes and custom content. This saves you from having to return to the design tool every time you need to adjust something.
Realistic animated humans
Thanks to the integration of the Chaos Anima engine, it’s easy to add humans in Envision that are realistic, follow the paths you draw, and avoid one another in crowds. Anima’s renowned high-quality 4D humans and more crowd capabilities will be added in a future beta release 🙌.
Incredible visual quality
With its 100% ray tracing, Envision offers enhanced rendering quality and realism. It can consistently and accurately calculate reflections, refractions, and global illumination while supporting scenes that can grow into trillions of instanced faces.
No scene prep needed
Since the complete scene data shown in Enscape can be transferred directly to Envision via the .vrscene file format, your visualization process can start right away. No scene prep needed! This is a big workflow and time-saving advantage, as there is no need to reduce complexity in order to meet the needs of a game engine or a different environment.
Envision supports V-Ray and Enscape materials, lights, cameras, and asset libraries, saving you time from having to recreate and adjust these elements.
Full Chaos ecosystem support
With Envision, you can benefit from a smooth integration with many Chaos tools, including Enscape, V-Ray, and Corona, the Cosmos asset library, the Anima engine for super realistic humans and crowd simulation, and Chaos Scatter for fast, creative object scattering.
Thanks to the .vrscene file format, data exchange is easy. Geometry, materials, lights, and assets can be shared between your design tool (SketchUp, Revit, Rhino, Vectorworks, Archicad) or DCC (3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Maya, Houdini, Blender) together with Envision.
Continuous design workflow
All designs evolve, and Envision makes it easy to keep your visualization up to date by respecting your decisions and keeping them applied as your exports change.
Try Envision beta for free
This is your chance to try the free beta version of Envision. It’s easy to get started, and we’ll guide you through the whole process of getting up and running.
This is the first iteration, and more features and functionality will be added as the software evolves in the coming months. We’re excited to see your initial creations and hear your feedback on social media and the Forum.
