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title: "1.7.0"
canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/ENVISION/989593755/1.7.0"
format: markdown
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**Envision 1, Update 7**

*Official release*

**Date **- July 07, 2026

> Macro (ui-button)

 


## **New Features**

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- Integrated Chaos Veras into Envision
- Assistant tools
  - Scatter Assets on Selection - ability to find and scatter assets on selected surfaces
  - Place Assets on Plane - ability to find and place asset sets on planes, available for dining, living room, and bedroom areas
  - Render Critique - designed to analyze the user's current viewport render and provide concise, actionable feedback on its visual and technical quality.


## **Modified Features**

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- Redesigned and improved onboarding experience for a smoother first-time setup
- Added thumbnail keyframe track in Easy Mode for faster timeline navigation
- Improved camera keyframe blending to preserve horizon alignment and prevent roll/tilt during transitions
- Added Kelvin temperature presets to native lights


## **Fixes**

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- Adding environment variation to the timeline adds it to the Camera viewpoints as well
- Interpolation issues with orientation of animated Cameras
- Crash when switching to another window while loading scene
- Onboarding text overlaps during UI/mode selection on startup
- Variated wind transitions cause reversed motion in water shader
- Live-link Switching the material of a grouped/component object to Mix or Water is not working
- Imported camera animation in Envision does not match the camera animation in Enscape
- It's not possible to download / save a render from Veras
- GPU OOM Critical Error when starting a second render in scenes containing Anima
- Fix light theme Assistant logo
- Timeline playhead stalls with 4D Anima characters
- Update the card texts in the Getting started section of the Home screen
- Custom FPS option cannot be configured in Easy mode
- Foliage enhancement triggers material UI property switch
- Camera clip property dropdown creates unintended keyframes
- Transition properties window gets cropped and cannot be moved depending on animation panel height
- Audio track can't be deleted
- Audio track labeled "Additional" instead of "Audio" in Easy mode
- Switching from Easy to Advanced mode is not exposing the existing audio track
- Audio playback is disabled if audio channels are not explicitly added in older scenes/documents
- Advanced mode properties remain active and unresponsive after switching to Easy mode
- Timeline playback continues after switching application mode.
- Material preview window persists across GUI states and cannot be restored
- Broken orientation of grouped assets imported from Enscape/AECs
- The light color temperature slider text and Kelvin value are hard to read
- Change IES tooltip
- Switching from Advanced to Easy mode retains the advanced created object active
- TimelineCameraTrack.cpp, access key interpolation property during confirmation dialog
- Viewport rendering resolution widgets lack light theme equivalent
- Delete camera clip button still visible when it's already deleted
- Advanced mode lister filters persist in Easy mode
- UI texts that are not looking good
- Editing the timeline length box is hard to see when switching themes
- Live-link icon is darker when Envision is started with the Light theme and switched to the Dark theme
- Top layer thumbnail is lost after duplicating material while general material preview is active
- Wrong camera thumbnails when opening a scene
- Changing between cameras is not updating the thumbnails properly
- Camera previews have wrong aspect ratio
- Camera directional lock persists when action is interrupted
- Resizing clips on timeline tracks doesn’t work at the first pixel on either side.
- Timeline zoom slider not showing up on scene load.
- Timeline zoom slider missing its hover effect.
- Keyframes outside the camera timeline clip not updating their visibility instantly on button click.
- After deleting an audio clip from the timeline track, the “Open audio file” dialog shows up when another audio clip is clicked.
- Audio clips being able to switch timeline tracks with dragging when the target track is not visible.
- Audio playback from hidden audio tracks after loading a scene.


## **Known Limitations**

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- Live-link with Chaos Bridge/V-Ray for SketchUp and Rhino is temporarily disabled due to incompatibility