Dear Forum Community,
We’ve just released our latest version Enscape 4.19.0!
Improvements
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Chaos Assistant Product Guidance: Ask how-to and support questions in plain language and get instant, contextual answers from the Chaos Assistant — without ever leaving Enscape or Impact. -
Chaos Assistant Light Mood Match: Drop in an inspiration image and let the Chaos Assistant generate matching Enscape views and reusable visual presets in seconds.
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Chaos Assistant Asset Suggest: Not sure which asset fits? Let the Chaos Assistant recommend Cosmos assets straight from an image, a prompt, or your active viewport, so you can populate scenes and iterate on designs faster.
Known issues
- Single asset placement may be imprecise.
- In some cases, dragging an asset may place multiple instances instead of a single one.
- Scrolling may behave unexpectedly while typing in the assistant panel.
- Chaos Cloud Integration: Exporting to Chaos Cloud just got a lot simpler. One unified flow now handles panoramas, still images, scenes, and web standalones, replacing the old Upload Management entirely.
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Skyboxes: Enscape now supports loading .exr skyboxes, as long as they use one of our already-supported layouts.
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Vectorworks: Enscape now adds preliminary support for Vectorworks 2027, so you can start exploring the latest release right away.
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Error Messages: Improved error messages shown when custom assets are missing or fail to download, making it clearer what happened and what to do next.
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Material Import: Added a specific, actionable error message when a material can’t be downloaded due to missing write permissions, instead of a generic error.
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Hotkeys: Enscape now prevents assigning the same hotkey to two conflicting actions (e.g., the screenshot hotkey and a GUI mode hotkey), with a clear error shown when a conflict is detected.
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Revit: Improved light radius estimation for narrow-profile spotlights that are set up as point lights in Revit families.
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SketchUp: Lights in SketchUp can now be renamed directly via their component definition, and all linked instances will update automatically in Enscape’s Light Management.
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Interface: Text fields in Enscape now support the standard right-click context menu (cut/copy/paste).
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Performance: Improved export/transmission speed through more efficient data compression.
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VR: Improved VR performance on certain hardware/headset configurations.
Fixed Bugs
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View Management: Fixed section planes not getting applied correctly when switching views.
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Diagnostics: Fixed BootError log files being created even when there were no errors.
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Site Context: Fixed the Site Context map pin drifting away from the cursor when zooming with the scroll wheel while placing the pin.
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Site Context: Fixed the Site Context map resizer drifting away from the cursor when zooming with the scroll wheel while resizing.
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Asset Library: Fixed the CAD Asset Library panel closing unexpectedly when trying to select search results.
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Asset Library: Fixed the Asset Library panel closing when using arrow keys to navigate the Cosmos search field.
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View Management: The back button is now positioned correctly according to the design.
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Interface: Fixed the About button text overlapping in some languages.
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Light Management: Fixed disappearing light selections in the Light Management panel during batch rendering.
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Light Management: Fixed a crash when canceling batch rendering while Light Management is active.
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Light Management: Fixed light indicators not displaying correctly in “Show Visible Only” mode.
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Ray Tracing: Fixed ray-traced artificial lights being enabled at startup on GPUs that don’t support the feature.
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Ray Tracing: Fixed a visual issue with ray-traced shadows and rotated vegetation.
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Ray Tracing: Fixed inconsistency in ray-traced artificial light settings.
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Ray Tracing: Fixed emissives being affected by the “Artificial Light Brightness” slider when using ray-traced artificial lighting.
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Ray Tracing: Fixed backface UV mapping sometimes looking incorrect in reflections.
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Ray Tracing: Fixes an issue with ray-traced artificial lights and emissive surfaces.
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Asset Brush: Fixed the Asset Brush preview option remaining enabled even when there were no placed assets left to preview.
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Asset Brush: Fixed an issue where previewing assets did not work if painted with the brush tool without first selecting any assets.
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Asset Brush: Fixed an issue where previewing assets could result in an unexpected mixture of asset previews and placeholders.
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Asset Customization: Fixed the asset customization color picker closing immediately after changing the color.
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Material Editor: Fixed AI-generated material import failing if the Chaos Cosmos Browser window was closed while the material was downloading.
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BIM Panel: Fixed the BIM panel not keeping the previous search filter after closing and reopening it.
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Multi Asset Placement: Scaling and Tilting sliders are now disabled in the rectangle, circle, and flood-fill placement modes, where they had no effect.
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Installer: Fixed the installer’s “Please close these applications” list being slow to appear when Cloud Licensing was selected.
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Installer: Fixed the installer’s Language page caption to match the “Next” button.
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Help Panel: Fixed an incorrect icon in the Help Panel for changing the time of day.
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Rendering: Fixed a potential issue with inaccurate physics when objects are mirrored.
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Rendering: Fixed an error in Auto Exposure calculations when using a white sky background.
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Selection Highlight: Fixed incorrect selection highlight rendering on recent Intel drivers.
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VR: Improved extreme performance issues reported by some customers using Meta Quest headsets.
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VR: Fixed a bug that let users teleport into the sky outside the project’s bounding area in VR.
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Rendering: Fixed a bloom issue that caused it to take up less area at higher resolutions.
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Minimap: Fixed a bug where users could get teleported after resizing the minimap.
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Revit: Fixed an issue where the current user did not have access to the Revit folder.
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Revit: Fixed an issue in Revit where placing multiple custom assets with the same name could fail, leaving assets as placeholders and showing an error.
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Revit: Revit families with multiple light sources now export those light sources with IDs, allowing them to be properly modified in the Light Management panel and exported to Envision via the Envision Live Link without errors.
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SketchUp: Fixed the video texture thumbnail not showing in the Material Editor in SketchUp.
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Archicad: Fixed Enscape startup causing a crash on certain Archicad projects.
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Vectorworks: Fixed textures in Vectorworks being lost when modifying a material.
Known Issues
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Renderer: Pressing an arrow key once makes Enscape move perpetually.
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Shutdown: Enscape may display an exception message when shutting down.
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Revit: Placing new assets in Revit 2027 may cause Revit to crash.
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SketchUp: Geometry created with SketchUp’s procedural (Labs) tools cannot currently be exported.
Share your questions or feedback in this thread or by reaching out to support. In case of crashes, freezes or other issues, submit a feedback report with your log files directly.
Happy rendering!