Envision 1
Official release
Date - May 20, 2025
New Features
- Support for video textures in .vrscenes from Enscape. Animated bitmap (IFL) support - sequential bitmaps within a folder, or reading a text file that lists files (in conventional IFL format).
- Missing dependencies dialog and handling of missing references on reload scenes.
- Animations in viewport and full screen mode.
- Keeping edits upon reloading file references.
- Rendering of spherical and panoramic camera projections.
- Support for stereoscopic rendering.
- Support for uploading renders to the Chaos AI Enhancer.
- Support for uploading renders to Chaos Cloud Collaboration.
- Support for render channels/elements for compositing.
- Scene references support multiple source paths for different versions.
- Animated .vrscene references are treated as containers with individual playback control.
- Out of range (e.g., loop) assignment to imported animated .vrscenes.
- Phasing animation randomization and secondary effects for playful animation effects.
- Improved Camera Clip editor.
- Added a sound track in the timeline editor.
- Improved Environment panel.
- Improved Material editor.
- Added material Enhancements.
- Improved crowd tool UI.
Bug Fixes
IES light properties don't load properly from .vrscene.
Scatter layers cannot be removed.
Animation playback is continually recreating ImageRenderingSettings UI leading to significant performance degradation.
Cancelling missing asset download during document open leads to crash.
Crash when switching Cosmos category folder during offline session.
Fetching missing dependencies when offline or with connectivity issues will result in a crash.
Unusable video quality due to unpredicted encoder selection.
Cameras, scatter layers & variations cannot be renamed.
Crash when switching Cosmos category folder during offline session.
Crowd scaling leads to cascading nans and crash.
Deleting an audio track/clip during playback leads to crash.
Crash on app. close having variated nodes with materials.
Closing the app. after scene animation editing.
Animation playback controls are missing from the interface.
Unable to assign HDRI in Revit onboarding scene.
Imported animation is lost upon saving as .envision.
Crash swapping Cosmos category.
Removing missing camera duplicate-dependency leads to crash.
Imported cameras cannot be transformed.
Modifying/Editing crowd paths leads to stuttering and viewport performance issues.
GPU hybrid mode switch leads to random crashes during app. use.
Enhancement panel collapses when accessing tint color control.
Wind effect no longer works for scattered instances.
Fixed memory issues related to the application workflow and system memory.