--- title: "Enscape backup plan RN" canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/DOCSGUIDE/1293615105/Enscape%20backup%20plan%20RN" format: markdown --- **Enscape 4.21.0 - Windows** Release Notes: 1.10.2026 ## **Improvements** --- - **Cosmos: **AI Assets Generator (Beta) – upload a reference photo and Enscape generates a textured 3D model from it, ready to place and edit directly in your scene like any other Cosmos asset. To reuse it later, find it under Downloaded > 3D Models > AI-Generated. ![Enscape_Release_Notes.png](media://c583c4ce-744b-4af1-8e52-262babd45c78) **Known limitations:* - *Generated AI assets are created at a fixed height of 100 cm.* - *AI-generated assets have no proxy, just a bounding box.* - *AI-generated assets are saved locally on the computer of the user who created them and are available only to that user.* - **Rendering Performance: **Ray-traced sun shadows and artificial lights now share their acceleration data instead of duplicating it, cutting GPU memory use and speeding up navigation and exports in complex scenes. - **Renderer Host: **Added a clearer loading message showing how many missing assets are being downloaded (X of Y) instead of leaving the progress bar looking stuck. - **Custom Asset Library: **Clarified the Configuration dialog in the Custom Asset Editor with clearer directory guidance and warning messages. - **Cosmos: **Cosmos Browser now starts automatically in the background when needed, removing a manual step. - **Cosmos: **Enscape now automatically detects and re-downloads Cosmos assets that are missing or only partially downloaded. - **Chaos Assistant: **Renamed Mood Match to Sky Match throughout the Chaos Assistant. - **Theming System: **Enscape now warns when a CAD is running a beta/preview version, or a released version it doesn't fully support yet, with an option not to show the warning again. - **Artificial Lights: **Light icons for lights culled by a section box are now hidden instead of cluttering the view. - **Rasterization: **Reduced GPU memory usage for scene geometry by up to ~40% by allocating only the vertex data a model actually needs, freeing up memory for larger, more complex scenes. - **Gridlines: **Gridlines now use procedural lines instead of a stretched texture overlay, fixing distortion in non-16:9 aspect ratios such as portrait mode. - **Capturing: **Reduced peak memory usage during high-resolution image captures by reusing render targets more efficiently. - **Vectorworks: **Added support for Vectorworks 2027, including compatibility with its new OpenPBR material system. - **SketchUp: **Added preliminary support for the SketchUp 2027 Beta. ## **Fixes** --- - **Capturing: **The .exe Standalone export now shows an error toast if the export was not successful. - **Capturing: **Fixed image rendering of the Current Camera using the wrong settings on export. - **Capturing: **Fixed Batch Rendering order differing from View Management. - **Light Management: **Light name changes in Archicad are now reflected in Enscape again. - **Material Editor: **Fixed the wrong material being selected in the Material Editor after importing an AI-generated material. - **Material Editor: **Fixed the Material Editor not reading 100% glass opacity correctly. - **Material Editor: **Fixed the Material Editor becoming unresponsive for a few seconds after replacing a material. - **Asset Library: **Fixed the Cosmos Asset Page resetting when switching tabs. - **Asset Library: **Fixed Enscape staying on the loading screen indefinitely when an asset package never finished downloading. - **V-Ray Scene Export: **Fixed some geometry missing from Revit railing and line families in the .vrscene export. - **View Management: **View Management now stays open when selecting a view from another document. - **Site Context: **Removed an error message that appeared when no values were provided to the Site Context translation. - **Site Context: **Fixed hiding a single element in Site Context breaking hiding/selection. - **Site Context: **Fixed Site Context placing surroundings next to the model instead of around it when the model footprint was rotated on the map. - **Site Context: **Fixed the Rotate slider in Edit Site Context turning the site context around its own center, which moved the model off its plot. - **Enscape Impact: **Fixed mouse clicks other than the left button selecting geometry. - **Enscape Impact: **Fixed the Thermal Comfort room type selector missing recommended types. - **Enscape Impact: **Fixed a hovered room and a selected room using the same highlight colour, making deselection hard to notice. - **Cosmos: **Fixed an error when opening a project with too many assets. - **Standalones: **Fixed exported standalones failing to open due to an unsupported window icon. - **Chaos Assistant: **Fixed a crash caused by repeatedly clicking the Chaos Assistant button before it had opened. - **Chaos Assistant: **Using a safe frame no longer displaces assets imported from the Chaos Assistant. - **Installer: **Fixed the language selected during installation not being applied to Enscape and the CAD menus. - **Notification Center: **Fixed a silent background crash in the Notification Center. - **Asset Placement: **Fixed orbiting around a room in Enscape Impact accidentally selecting it. - **Asset Placement: **Fixed light icons not responding to geometry changes unless the camera was moved. - **Asset Placement: **Fixed clicking an asset's edit gizmo sometimes selecting a different asset behind it. - **Artificial Lights: **Fixed GPU memory not being freed when ray-traced artificial lights or sun shadows were automatically disabled due to full memory. - **Artificial Lights: **Fixed the brightness of very small sphere lights when using ray-traced artificial lighting. - **Artificial Lights: **Fixed a brightness issue with ray-traced artificial lights when emissive materials were used. - **Artificial Lights: **Fixed inconsistent lighting when ray-traced artificial lights were disabled after exporting an image. - **Spectator: **Fixed broken camera movement after some window resizes with DLSS enabled. - **Window System & Input: **Fixed extreme camera movement on frame delays. - **Revit: **Fixed the Render Image (Into Document) command logging an error even though the image was saved correctly. - **SketchUp: **Fixed SketchUp becoming progressively slower when repeatedly editing a linked model placed using the Enscape Objects dialog. - **SketchUp: **Fixed an exception that could appear when a SketchUp page was erased via code and no page remained selected. - **Vectorworks: **Fixed a material's roughness and bump textures being applied to the wrong channels, causing surfaces to look bumpy or shiny in the wrong places. **Enscape 4.21.0 - macOS** Release Notes: 1.10.2026 ## **Improvements** --- - ** ****Cosmos: **AI Assets Generator (Beta) – upload a reference photo and Enscape generates a textured 3D model from it, ready to place and edit directly in your scene like any other Cosmos asset. To reuse it later, find it under Downloaded > 3D Models > AI-Generated. ![Enscape_Release_Notes.png](media://c583c4ce-744b-4af1-8e52-262babd45c78) **Known limitations: * - *Generated AI assets are created at a fixed height of 100 cm.* - *AI generated assets have no proxy, just a bounding box.* - *AI-generated assets are saved locally on the computer of the user who created them and are available only to that user.* - **Rendering Performance: **Ray-traced sun shadows and artificial lights now share their acceleration data instead of duplicating it, cutting GPU memory use and speeding up navigation and exports in complex scenes. - **Renderer Host: **Added a clearer loading message showing how many missing assets are being downloaded (X of Y) instead of leaving the progress bar looking stuck. - **Custom Asset Library: **Clarified the Configuration dialog in the Custom Asset Editor with clearer directory guidance and warning messages. - **Cosmos: **Cosmos Browser now starts automatically in the background when needed, removing a manual step. - **Cosmos: **Enscape now automatically detects and re-downloads Cosmos assets that are missing or only partially downloaded. - **Chaos Assistant: **Renamed Mood Match to Sky Match throughout the Chaos Assistant. - **Theming System: **Enscape now warns when a CAD is running a beta/preview version, or a released version it doesn't fully support yet, with an option not to show the warning again. - **Artificial Lights: **Light icons for lights culled by a section box are now hidden instead of cluttering the view. - **Rasterization: **Reduced GPU memory usage for scene geometry by up to ~40% by allocating only the vertex data a model actually needs, freeing up memory for larger, more complex scenes. - **Gridlines: **Gridlines now use procedural lines instead of a stretched texture overlay, fixing distortion in non-16:9 aspect ratios such as portrait mode. - **Capturing: **Reduced peak memory usage during high-resolution image captures by reusing render targets more efficiently. - **Vectorworks: **Added support for Vectorworks 2027, including compatibility with its new OpenPBR material system. - **SketchUp: **Added preliminary support for the SketchUp 2027 Beta. ## **Fixed Bugs** --- - **Capturing: **Fixed Enscape putting itself into the foreground when batch exporting. - **Capturing: **Fixed export windows getting stuck after switching the active document. - **Capturing: **Fixed being unable to start a render export command. - **Capturing: **Fixed image rendering of the Current Camera using the wrong settings on export. - **Capturing: **Fixed Batch Rendering order differing from View Management. - **Light Management: **Light name changes in Archicad are now reflected in Enscape again. - **Material Editor: **Fixed the wrong material being selected in the Material Editor after importing an AI-generated material. - **Material Editor: **Fixed the Material Editor not reading 100% glass opacity correctly. - **Asset Library: **Fixed the Cosmos Asset Page resetting when switching tabs. - **Asset Library: **Fixed Enscape staying on the loading screen indefinitely when an asset package never finished downloading. - **V-Ray Scene Export: **Fixed some geometry missing from Revit railing and line families in the .vrscene export. - **View Management: **View Management now stays open when selecting a view from another document. - **Site Context: **Removed an error message that appeared when no values were provided to the Site Context translation. - **Site Context: **Fixed Site Context placing surroundings next to the model instead of around it when the model footprint was rotated on the map. - **Site Context: **Fixed the Rotate slider in Edit Site Context turning the site context around its own center, which moved the model off its plot. - **Cosmos: **Fixed an error when opening a project with too many assets. - **Video Editor: **Fixed the Video Editor appearing during export when clicked outside of Enscape. - **Chaos Assistant: **Fixed a crash caused by repeatedly clicking the Chaos Assistant button before it had opened. - **Chaos Assistant: **Using a safe frame no longer displaces assets imported from the Chaos Assistant. - **Installer: **Fixed the language selected during installation not being applied to Enscape and the CAD menus. - **Notification Center: **Fixed the Notification Center requesting unnecessary macOS permissions. - **Notification Center: **Fixed a silent background crash in the Notification Center. - **Asset Placement: **Fixed clicking an asset's edit gizmo sometimes selecting a different asset behind it. - **Artificial Lights: **Fixed a brightness issue with ray-traced artificial lights when emissive materials were used. - **SketchUp: **Fixed Batch Rendering not completed on large projects with scenes that had active section planes. - **SketchUp: **Fixed SketchUp becoming progressively slower when repeatedly editing a linked model placed using the Enscape Objects dialog. - **SketchUp: **Fixed an exception that could appear when a SketchUp page was erased via code and no page remained selected. - **Vectorworks: **Fixed a material's roughness and bump textures being applied to the wrong channels, causing surfaces to look bumpy or shiny in the wrong places.