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.