This article covers Envision 1, Update 7.
Official release.
Released July 07, 2026.
New features
- Chaos Veras is now integrated into Envision.
- Added Assistant tools.
- Use Scatter Assets on Selection to find and scatter assets on selected surfaces.
- Use Place Assets on Plane to find and place asset sets on planes in dining, living room and bedroom areas.
- Render Critique analyses your current viewport render and gives concise, actionable feedback on its visual and technical quality.
Modified features
- Redesigned onboarding for first-time setup.
- Added a thumbnail keyframe track in Easy Mode to help you navigate the timeline.
- Improved camera keyframe blending to keep the horizon aligned and prevent roll or tilt during transitions.
- Added Kelvin temperature presets to native lights.
Fixes
- Fixed an issue where adding an environment variation to the timeline also added it to Camera viewpoints.
- Fixed orientation interpolation issues with animated Cameras.
- Fixed a crash when switching to another window while a scene loads.
- Fixed overlapping onboarding text during UI/mode selection at startup.
- Fixed reversed water shader motion during varied wind transitions.
- Fixed a Live-link issue that prevented changing a grouped or component object's material to Mix or Water.
- Fixed a mismatch between camera animation imported into Envision and the camera animation in Enscape.
- Fixed an issue that prevented downloading or saving a render from Veras.
- Fixed a GPU OOM Critical Error when starting a second render in scenes containing Anima.
- Fixed the Assistant logo in the light theme.
- Fixed timeline playhead stalls with 4D Anima characters.
- Updated the card text in the Getting started section of the Home screen.
- Fixed an issue that prevented configuring Custom FPS in Easy mode.
- Fixed an issue where foliage enhancement triggered a material UI property switch.
- Fixed unintended keyframes created by the camera clip property dropdown.
- Fixed an issue where the animation panel height caused the transition properties window to be cropped and prevented moving it.
- Fixed an issue that prevented deleting an audio track.
- Fixed an audio track labelled "Additional" instead of "Audio" in Easy mode.
- Fixed an issue where switching from Easy to Advanced mode did not show the existing audio track.
- Fixed disabled audio playback in older scenes or documents when audio channels had not been explicitly added.
- Fixed Advanced mode properties remaining active and unresponsive after switching to Easy mode.
- Fixed timeline playback continuing after switching application mode.
- Fixed a material preview window that persisted across GUI states and could not be restored.
- Fixed incorrect orientation of grouped assets imported from Enscape/AECs.
- Made the light colour temperature slider text and Kelvin value easier to read.
- Updated the IES tooltip.
- Fixed an issue where switching from Advanced to Easy mode kept an object created in Advanced mode active.
- Fixed access to the key interpolation property in TimelineCameraTrack.cpp during the confirmation dialog.
- Added light theme versions of the viewport rendering resolution widgets.
- Fixed the Delete camera clip button remaining visible after the clip was deleted.
- Fixed Advanced mode lister filters persisting in Easy mode.
- Improved the appearance of UI text.
- Made edits in the timeline length box easier to see when switching themes.
- Fixed the Live-link icon appearing darker when Envision started in the Light theme and then switched to the Dark theme.
- Fixed the top layer thumbnail disappearing after duplicating a material while the general material preview was active.
- Fixed incorrect camera thumbnails when opening a scene.
- Fixed thumbnails not updating correctly when switching cameras.
- Fixed incorrect aspect ratios in camera previews.
- Fixed the camera directional lock persisting after an action was interrupted.
- Fixed an issue that prevented resizing clips on timeline tracks at the first pixel on either side.
- Fixed the timeline zoom slider not appearing when a scene loads.
- Restored the timeline zoom slider's hover effect.
- Fixed keyframes outside the camera timeline clip not updating their visibility immediately after a button click.
- Fixed the "Open audio file" dialog appearing when clicking another audio clip after deleting one from the timeline track.
- Fixed an issue that allowed dragging audio clips to a timeline track that was not visible.
- Fixed audio playing from hidden audio tracks after loading a scene.
Known limitations
- Live-link with Chaos Bridge/V-Ray for SketchUp and Rhino is temporarily disabled because of incompatibility.