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Dinnie Muslihat

Dinnie Muslihat

Published: July 16, 2025  •  2 min read

Enjoy intuitive motion control and advanced scene management with Envision 1.1

Add a whole new level of realism to your scenes with a revolutionary traffic simulation system and smart animated vehicles. With Envision 1.1, animation becomes even more intuitive with tools for effortless traffic simulation and proximity-triggered effects.

Plus, discover more updates, including advanced scene management that enables greater workflow customization and maximizes efficiency and batch rendering capabilities.

What are the benefits of animated vehicles in a rendering scene?

The more realistic your rendering scene is, the easier it is for clients to engage with it. Animated vehicles improve spatial understanding, and motion helps convey scale and purpose. Not only will they make your renderings feel lived in, but they also offer a glimpse into how the space interacts with everyday activities, as vehicles are part of daily life.

Adding animated vehicles into your renderings will demonstrate to your clients the traffic flow, parking areas, and functionality of the space. They enable you to convey authentic context with realistic movement, making your space more engaging and enhancing your visual narrative.

Chaos rendering of animated traffic scene with various cars, vans, and a pedestrian in a packed urban street.

Vehicles from Anima's collection

Smarter and more realistic vehicle behavior in your renders

Simulate busy streets and projects fit for urban environments with Envision’s Anima integration. Instantly generate realistic vehicle traffic that flows, interacts with pedestrians, and responds to terrain geometry. The key highlights of the new traffic simulation system are:

  • Vehicles that follow real-world traffic rules, navigate intersections, and interact naturally with pedestrians.
  • Lifelike motion with spinning wheels, chassis roll, and terrain adaptation.
  • Automatic collision handling for smooth and realistic interactions.
  • Color editing options for greater customization.

Built-in traffic-defining tools

Easily populate urban scenes with hundreds of animated vehicles without requiring expertise in animation or rigid body physics. Create and simulate vehicle routes that follow international traffic rules.

Animation flow controls

Anima automatically manages intersections so your traffic flows smoothly and avoids collisions.

Customization possibilities

Save time with automatic vehicle material generation and enjoy customization possibilities with extensive color editing options.

Chaos rendering of an urban street scene with cars, pedestrians crossing, and people dining outdoors on a sunny day.

More Envision 1.1 updates

Proximity sensors

Add interactive space exploration with proximity-activated object animations. These trigger when a specific component gets near key items such as doors, windows, or elevators, giving you dynamic, responsive environments with minimal effort.

Rendering queues

Automate batch rendering of images and animations across selected camera views. Integrated with the AI Enhancer and Cloud Collaboration, this workflow saves you from repetitive clicks, reduces manual effort, and ensures consistent, high-quality output.

Navigation presets (coming soon)

You'll soon be able to easily switch between navigation styles based on your preferred 3D software. Spend less time orienting and more time creating with scene navigation, object interaction, and making adjustments that feel fast and familiar. Enscape and 3ds Max are currently supported, with more coming soon.

Add realism to your renderings with Envision

With intuitive motion control and advanced scene management, animation becomes even more accessible, allowing greater customization and maximizing efficiency. With the groundbreaking traffic simulation engine and smart animated vehicles, you can enjoy real-world behavior in your renderings within a few clicks.

Envision is part of the newly launched ArchDesign Collection, which also includes Enscape, Veras, and Enscape Impact. Accelerate every stage of your design process, from concept to final delivery, with the complete immersive design toolkit for architects and teams.

 

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Dinnie Muslihat
Dinnie Muslihat

Dinnie is part of the Content team at Chaos and manages the Enscape blog. She enjoys sharing informative, insightful, and inspirational content for architects and designers to empower their visualization workflows. If you have an excellent idea for a blog post, get in touch via blog-editor@chaos.com

Chaos rendering of animated traffic scene with various cars, vans, and a pedestrian in a packed urban street.

Vehicles from Anima's collection

Chaos rendering of an urban street scene with cars, pedestrians crossing, and people dining outdoors on a sunny day.