4.8.0 Preview 1 macOS

Release Notes 04.06.2025

New

• Support Photoreal Materials in SU2025: 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.
• Automatic level of detail for scene geometry: A new approach to automatically simplify the scene geometry in order to provide performance increases for scenes with a higher geometric complexity.
• 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

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: Orthographic camera can now be used properly with NewForma Connect functionality
• Custom Asset Editor encrypts imported files when converting their format: Custom assets can now be successfully exported and imported again.
• VR - Changing seated/roomscale mode while moving keeps you moving forward after you've stopped holding the joystick: Changing modes now works properly.
• [Sketch up] Per-View Section Plane Visibility Is Determined By Native Global RenderingOptions: Section plane is now respected during the batch rendering of the first view.
• [Sketch up] View Not Reapplied After Batch Rendering: section planes are now visualized properly
• [Sketch up] Crash When Using Erase in The Ruby Console: the command now is executed properly
• [Sketch up] 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.
• [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

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.
• Enscape crashes during export when CAD UI is in use: When export is in progress change something on the CAD window example:applying a material,creating a new geometry Enscape crashes
• Color change leads to a change in the material ID: Material ID is not persistent after color change.