Elevate Your Design Experience with Enscape 3.4

Enscape 3.4 just released! Say hello to a more seamless design and visualization workflow. 

This latest release brings helpful updates to existing features as a means of further elevating your design experience with Enscape. 

Improvements include:

  • Custom Asset Library
  • Saving Sun Positions
  • Editing existing views
  • Enhanced Mirror Reflections
  • New Interior Assets
  • New Materials
  • Support for Archidcad 26

Table of Contents

Key Features

1. Categories within the Custom Asset Library

If you’ve wished to have categories in the Custom Asset Library, then you’re in luck! Categories are now available in the Custom Asset Library for better management. With this new categorization system, sorting and filtering through custom assets are so much easier. 

For imported assets, you can drag and drop them into your defined categories for better organization. 

If you need to share your libraries with your team, all your pre-defined categories will be visible to all users. For more information on this, take a look at Enscape official’s Knowledge Base article.

2. Saving Sun Positions

Prior to the 3.4 update, any set sun positions would reset every time Enscape is restarted. However, you can now save your sun positions in Enscape views.

Set the stage with natural lighting and use the sun’s rays to highlight certain design elements. Utilize the slider controls and input fields to produce specific sun positions for a range of views. If you find a sun position you like, you can set, save, and replicate them for other views.

Once you’ve installed Enscape 3.4, go to View Management > Create View to adjust the sun position by using the sliders, the input fields, or the keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+U/I for azimuth and Shift+U/I for altitude).

3. More Powerful Editing Tools for Existing Views

Enscape 3.4 allows you to adjust the camera and sun position of your existing saved views. Long gone are the days of needing to create a new view every time you need to change an angle or lighting. 

How can you utilize this upgraded feature? First, go to View Management, then select the Edit icon next to the view you’d like to amend. You can easily change the name, visual preset, camera position, and sun position in one place. 

Important Note: 

  • For Revit, the camera positions and zoom are still take from Revit view
  • This function will be available for Vectorworks soon
4. Assets and Materials for Interior Design

Check out the asset library to find the 210 new interior-centric assets and 52 materials

Leverage low-poly, high-quality models to enjoy the full potential of a seamless design and visualization workflow. With the upgraded asset and materials libraries, you’ll find items like: 

  • Bathroom assets: sinks, bathtubs, toilets, showers, faucets, and more
  • Kitchen assets: stoves, microwaves, ovens, sinks, fridges, and more
  • Living room assets: baskets, new furniture, decor, and more
  • Bedroom assets: beds, decorative pieces, and more
  • Plant assets: indoor plants, plant pots, and more

 

New materials include:

  • Wallpapers
  • Wood
  • Tiles
  • Stucco
Improved Reflections

This enhancement has been long requested by our beloved Enscape community. Thanks to technical improvements in how we capture objects placed at a distance from a reflective surface, users can enjoy more realistic reflections in their visualizations. 

Enscape’s 3.4 update also provides a higher texture and material quality in reflections. All reflected materials experience full-resolution texture maps, with the default setting on High. Improved reflections is noticeable in still images and real-time walkthroughs for those with a graphics card that supports hardware-accelerated ray tracing (NVIDIA RTX or AMD 6xxx series). However, the appearance of reflections won’t change in animated videos. 

Already an Enscape User? 

Simply update Enscape before opening up our software with your design application. 

Enscape 3.4 for Archicad 26

Enscape 3.4 is already compatible with the latest version of Archicad. Upgrade your version of Enscape to enjoy the newest update. 

A New Language Added: Chinese (Simplified)

We’re excited to announce that Enscape is supporting a number of languages on our real-time visualization software. With 3.4, native Mandarin speakers are able to utilize the Chinese language (simplified) version of Enscape. 

 

Need Help?

Get in touch with our dedicated team of Enscape experts by either emailing us at info@medianetic.com.my, calling us at +603 7886 1886, or filling out our contact form. If you’d like a free trial of Enscape for Mac, you can apply for one here

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