Wishlist After Weeks Testing Chaos Envision Beta – Here’s What We Need

[hugohenrique_demoraisgonzales]

Hi everyone!

I'm Hugo Gonzales, an interior designer and visualization artist, also the creator of Arqloads – a platform focused on smart assets and optimized workflows for architectural rendering. While recording a complete training course using the latest Chaos Envision beta, I gathered some improvement suggestions that I believe would make a big difference in daily use. Here's my wishlist:

Cameras & Timeline

• Update camera position only when right-clicking it and selecting “Update”, or via a dedicated update button.
• Allow replacing a timeline camera with another from the camera list, keeping movement and settings like DOF.
• Let each camera trigger its own environment/HDRI setup automatically when selected.

Materials & Library

• Add a material creation tab with basic types: generic, metal, fur, car paint, translucency, displacement.
• Create a Local Library system for saving materials, configured assets, lights, and crowd presets.
• Add an option in Preferences to define a folder path for the Local Library.
• Allow importing more 3D file formats (like Chaos Vantage).

Scatter & Scene Management

• Enable scatter with imported/custom blocks and primitives.
• When resetting position/rotation/scale of objects, show a confirmation prompt.
• Add group delete confirmation: choose to delete the group and its contents or just ungroup.

Lights & Color Controls

• Add more light types: mesh light, omni light, spot light, IES light.
• Add radiant power control for lights.
• Allow hiding light shape from reflections.
• Enable video textures, and allow applying images/videos to lights (like in Enscape).
• Add color selector by Kelvin temperature, RGB (255,255,255), and HEX.
• Add white balance eyedropper by clicking on a white area in the scene.

HDRI & Environment

• Improve clarity in HDRI exposure controls; reduce preview size and highlight actual exposure settings.
• Allow different HDRIs for background and GI, as in Chaos Vantage.

Interface & Usability

• Allow custom keyboard shortcuts.
• Add a shortcut to hide/show all gizmos or only camera gizmos.
• Show Fly Mode toggle in viewport outside fullscreen (suggested: top-right corner).
• Add tooltips when hovering over icons (like V-Ray).
• Add live sync with SketchUp viewport.

Thanks Chaos team! These features would greatly improve speed, safety, and flexibility when working in real-world workflows.

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Hugo Gonzales
Designer | Arqloads CEO
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