This article covers Envision 1, Update 5.
Official release.
Released April 28, 2026.
New features
- Live link via Enscape is available in public beta.
- AI Assistant is available in public beta.
- You can import the Enscape camera path into Envision.
- Improved light controls.
- A global switch turns all lights on or off.
- You can control the emission direction of area lights.
- Added advanced controls for light contributions.
- You can control light source visibility.
- Improved object selection.
- Added Window/Crossing mode for rectangular selection.
- You can limit selection to specific object categories.
- You can select through transparent objects.
- Added Enscape tone-mapping.
Improvements
- Added support for Windows Snap Assist and Snap Layouts.
- You can drag the window by the task progress bar area.
- Live link updates to the render view are faster.
- Added an application frame rate cap in preferences.
- Renamed Interpolation to Transition.
- Added tooltips for the Environment panel, Camera colour corrections, Sensor's details panel and the Asset library.
Fixes
- Envision now detects incoming glass/refractive material types and enables the affect shadows parameter.
- Fixed a crash when you scrub the timeline after continuing with an unsaved, deleted variation state.
- Fixed a crash when committing a general state variation change.
- Fixed a hang or crash when you create a new document with an active live link.
- Fixed a crash when you make linked instances unique.
- Fixed a crash when you embed a vrscene containing an animated vegetation Cosmos Asset.
- Fixed an Envision startup crash caused by a low-level graphics DX feature check failure.
- Fixed an issue where Enscape light intensity was set to 0 lm and did not update in Envision through Live Link.
- Corrected the reversed "Wave flow" icons.
- Fixed Live-Link Camera Field of View updates in real time.
- Fixed minimum intensity when you select multiple IES lights.
- Fixed Cosmos assets failing to load with the error "unable to read asset representation: deadline exceeded".
- Fixed the application becoming unresponsive after licence re-authentication.
- Fixed video textures failing to update when you scrub the timeline.
- Fixed the Envision interface resizing incorrectly on a dual-monitor setup.
- Fixed a duplicate referenced node changing its transform when you open a document.
- Fixed a flattened hierarchy breaking the object lister sort order.
- Fixed sequence output flicker caused by playback starting early.
- Fixed scaling issues in Envision with Cosmos assets from V-Ray when Rhino units are set to metres or mm.
- Fixed conflicting timeline header position updates when you drag during playback.
- Fixed an external asset loading error when document dependencies are stored in shared directories.
- Fixed the default resolution overriding the camera-view aspect ratio.
- Fixed the Asset library stopping after a dependency process fails.
- Fixed out-of-memory errors that prevented specific .envision scenes from opening.
- Fixed asset replacement failing for incoming Enscape instanced nodes marked as unique.
- Fixed inconsistent accuracy of the left panel resize handle.
- Fixed edits remaining after you delete a variation state.
- Fixed minimum intensity for IES lights.
- Fixed traffic simulation property variations failing during transitions.
- Fixed individual vehicle speed variations failing during transitions.
- Fixed the Render Setup interface blocking interaction with cloud collaboration notifications.
- Fixed the imported Camera focal length property value being ignored.
- Removed an unexpected resize icon from the title bar.
- Fixed the missing resize icon when you move the mouse from outside the window to inside.
Known limitations
- Live link with Enscape does not support several Enscape features.
- Views and scenes.
- Visual settings.
- Some background image formats are not supported (.ktx).
- Object names, hierarchy and some environment parameters transfer on initialisation. Live updates to them are not synchronised.