4.8.0 macOS

Release Notes 25.06.2025

New

• Support Photoreal Materials in SketchUp 2025: Enscape now supports the new physically based (“photoreal”) materials introduced in SketchUp 2025, ensuring a seamless, high-fidelity rendering experience that matches material definitions across both platforms. Metalness map and Ambient occlusion are not supported.
• Image Quality Improvements - Ray-Traced Sun Shadows for Walkthrough Mode: This update enables software ray traced sun shadows in walkthrough mode, with performance optimized for small to medium scenes and a toggle option for user control.

• 24 FPS Video Output Setting: The Frames per Second dropdown in Visual Settings > Output > Video now includes 24 FPS as an option, enabling users to export videos with cinematic frame rates alongside existing values.
• Check for Running Embedded Apps and Errors reporting: Improve handling of running processes and error reporting for all embedded installations in the Enscape Installer.
• Improved Visual Balance in Pen & Pencil Sketch Mode: Adjusted the appearance of vegetation contours and hatching in Pen/Pencil sketch mode. Contours are now more clearly visible, and hatching no longer appears darker than the outlines, resulting in a more readable and visually balanced sketch style.

• UI enhancements
  • Enscape Material Editor - Values in Input fields are accepted after user presses Enter or when the field is out of focus
  • Asset placement - Invalid surfaces notification during asset placement

• • Artistic visual modes - Artistic visual modes cannot be activated at the same time as 3D TV Stereo Mode.
  • Updated Enscape Installer icons
  • Multi asset selection improved tooltip

• • Visual settings - Ambient Brightness (Visual Settings > Atmosphere > Illumination) is now disabled as option when the Rendering Quality is not set to Draft

• • Chaos Academy Link Added to Help Panel - The Enscape Help panel now includes a direct link to Chaos Academy, making it easier for users to access learning resources and training materials.

Fixed Bugs

• Favorite views do not show up in VR or standalones: Favorite views are now properly displayed.
• Asset Library – Rotation Y gets stuck at 270–271 degrees when using mouse scroll wheel: Rotation now works smoothly.
• Assigned shortcut disappears from settings UI: Assigned shortcuts now persist and are shown correctly across settings sessions.
• Error when trying to edit a collaboration annotation: Annotations can now be successfully modified.
• Veras - Inconsistent toolbar button style: Icon is now styled as all other icons on the toolbar
• NewForma Connect - Orthographic camera can lead to loading issue: Now it works as expected.
• Custom Asset Editor encrypts imported files when converting their format: Custom assets can now be successfully exported and imported again.
• CryptographicException When Exporting IES Lights to V-Ray scene: Resolved a rare issue where exporting scenes containing multiple IES lights to V-Ray scene could intermittently trigger a CryptographicException, potentially interrupting the export process.
• Fatal error when acquiring license for Enscape renderer window: Fixed an extremely rare race condition that could eventually lead to a crash with the fatal error “Failed while retrying to engage a license.”
• VR - Changing seated/roomscale mode while moving keeps you moving forward after you've stopped holding the joystick: Changing modes now works properly.
• [SketchUp] Per-View Section Plane Visibility Is Determined By Native Global RenderingOptions: Section plane is now respected during the batch rendering of the first view.
• [SketchUp] View Not Reapplied After Batch Rendering: section planes are now visualized properly
• [SketchUp] Crash When Using Erase in The Ruby Console: the command now is executed properly
• [SketchUp] Black and White Images Are Not Correctly Shown in Material Editor: The preview now looks like the original image, same as when the texture is added via Enscape ME.
• [SketchUp] Installing Enscape Into a Custom Directory Does Not Work: Enscape can now be can be installed correctly within folder that have any character or unicodes
• [Vectorworks] Geometry Sync Breaks After Switching to Top/Plan View: Now geometry gets updated accordingly.
• [Rhino] Cannot create materials based on TIFF images: Now materials are successfully created
• [Rhino] View Switching Does Not Work With Multiple Documents: Resolved an issue in Rhino 8 where switching views from the View Management panel with multiple documents open only updated the camera orientation without displaying the correct geometry from the selected project.
• [Rhino] Installer Creates User Folder With System Rights: Fixed an issue where Enscape’s installer created user-specific folders with system-level permissions if Rhino had not been run before, causing permission conflicts and preventing Rhino from functioning correctly.

Known Issues

• SSO Login Bug Prevents Second User from Using Enscape on Same PC: A second user can not sign in into Enscape using their own credentials and obtain a license session.
• [Rhino] Enscape Does Not Start If Documents Folder Is Inaccessible In Rhino: Enscape does not start and no error message is displayed