Chaos Enscape

About Chaos Enscape

Enscape is a plugin rather than a separate application, and that is the entire design decision. It installs into Revit, SketchUp, Rhino, ArchiCAD and Vectorworks, and opens a rendered window beside the modelling viewport. Move a wall and the render updates. There is no export, no scene setup and no round trip.

For design work that immediacy changes how rendering gets used. Instead of being a presentation step at the end of a project, it becomes something running on a second monitor while the model is being built, so material and lighting decisions get made while they are still cheap to change.

The asset library covers what a scene needs to look inhabited: furniture, vegetation, people, vehicles, lighting and accessories, all placed directly in the host application so they live in the model rather than in a separate render scene. Materials add displacement, reflection and grass to surfaces already defined in the model.

Output covers stills, panoramas, animation from camera paths, and a standalone walkthrough file that a client can open and explore without owning any of the software. Virtual reality output is supported directly for headset review sessions.

What is included in this build

• Plugin integration with Revit, SketchUp, Rhino, ArchiCAD and Vectorworks
• Real time render window updating as the model is edited
• Asset library of furniture, vegetation, people, vehicles and lighting placed in the host model
• Material editor adding displacement, reflection and grass to existing model materials
• Still, panorama and animation output from camera paths
• Standalone walkthrough export that a client can open without the software
• Virtual reality output for headset review sessions
• Sun study and time of day control tied to project location

Changed in version 4.19.0.2748

• Improved real time lighting quality in interior scenes
• Additional assets in the furniture and vegetation libraries
• Faster standalone walkthrough export
• Better handling of very large host models
• Host application compatibility updated for current releases

Installation walkthrough

These steps assume a clean machine. If a previous release of the same application is present, deal with that first, since an overlapping install is the most common cause of a setup that stops halfway.

1. Install the host modelling application first, since the plugin registers into it during setup.
2. Close the host application completely before running the installer.
3. Disable real-time protection until setup finishes.
4. Run setup as administrator and select which host applications to register with.
5. Reopen the host application and confirm the plugin ribbon or toolbar has appeared.

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