This page provides information on the key features of Veras in Enscape.
Overview
Veras is an AI visualization tool integrated in Enscape for architects and interior designers, designed to streamline the visualization process and overcome limitations of generative AI by working directly with the user's Enscape model. It is a tool for creative ideation and rapid visual exploration. Veras offers versatility across design stages, integrates seamlessly with Enscape, and provides controls for geometry and material overrides, presets, visual consistency, custom render selection and more.
How to open Veras
You will find the Veras button on top of the Enscape viewport. Once you click on it, Veras window will open.
You might be asked to login using your Chaos account if you are opening Veras for the first time.
Once logged in, Veras viewport will open. Veras uses your current live view in the Enscape viewport as base for generating new visuals, also known as the substrate.
If you change your view inside Enscape, the substrate for Veras will change as well, refreshing the view to the current live view inside the Enscape viewport.
Veras Interface
Veras has a very simple interface and it is very easy to navigate through it. At all times you will be able to see the current Enscape view inside Veras viewport. Let’s go through each of the buttons in the top bar.
Explore
This is your default workspace. This consists of a quick preset menu on the right.
The top Preset is the one that is selected currently and it has a three dot menu to save current settings applied to this preset as a new copy with a new name. These will be saved under the My Presets area.
The area Veras Presets provides you with a number of ready to use presets that can be used to immediately start testing ideas on your base image from Enscape. These range from interior styles, exterior shots, season changes, physical model, design styles and more.
Once you select a preset, you can click on the Render button on the bottom to generate a new image based on that preset settings. You can render up to four images simultaneously. Each time a new image is generated, you can add more to the queue.
Additionally, you can also set the width and height for your viewport.
Compose
This is where you can be creative and prompt your ideas. The Prompt field is used for achieving specific aesthetical content in the generated rendering, and is linked to the Prompt Strength slider. Low strength produces muted results, while high values produce more dramatic results.
The Geometry Override is the amount the geometry will change from the original base model. Low values promote geometry detail retention, while high values can generate more creative results.
Similarly, low Material Override values retain the original aesthetic, while high values change the aesthetic producing more dynamic Colors.
The seed toggle is a reference to your settings for a generated image. This means you can apply this seed to multiple views and achieve consistent results.
Edit
The edit tab enables you to edit your generated image in a bit more detail. You have some edit tools on the top menu. These can be used to manually select areas in the image that need working.
Once you define a Render Selection, you can use the prompt to generate changes to that selected area.
The Render Selection Blend slider helps blend your selection better with the rest of the image.
You also have the option to Upscale Image to a higher resolution
The Upscale Image feature will produce a high-res image which may be downscaled if used with other Veras Edit features.
Seed
A common topic with AI generated images is the varying styles when it comes to generating images for multiple views from the same project. Veras solution to this is the Seed feature. When the toggle is on, a reference to the settings for the generated image is created. Using this, the seed function applies identical settings to images generated for other views.
This results in the output being consistent.
For more resources please visit Chaos Academy and Veras Forum.
