--- title: "4.19.0 macOS" canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/ERN/1064042497/4.19.0%20macOS" format: markdown --- Release Notes 29.07.2026 ## **Improvements** --- - **Chaos Assistant Product Guidance: **Ask how-to and support questions in plain language and get answers from the Chaos Assistant — without leaving Enscape or Impact. - **Chaos Assistant Light Mood Match:** Drop in an inspiration image and let the Chaos Assistant generate matching Enscape views and reusable visual presets in seconds. - **Chaos Assistant Asset Suggest:** The Chaos Assistant can recommend Cosmos assets from an image, a prompt, or your active viewport, so you can populate scenes and iterate on designs faster. - **Chaos Cloud Integration:** Exporting to Chaos Cloud just got a lot simpler. One unified flow now handles panoramas, still images, scenes, and web standalones, replacing the old Upload Management entirely. - **Skyboxes:** Enscape now supports loading .exr skyboxes, as long as they use one of our already-supported layouts. - **Vectorworks:** Enscape now adds preliminary support for Vectorworks 2027, so you can start exploring the latest release right away. - **Error Messages:** Improved error messages shown when custom assets are missing or fail to download, making it clearer what happened and what to do next. - **Material Import:** Added a specific, actionable error message when a material can't be downloaded due to missing write permissions, instead of a generic error. - **Hotkeys:** Enscape now prevents assigning the same hotkey to two conflicting actions (e.g., the screenshot hotkey and a GUI mode hotkey), with a clear error shown when a conflict is detected. - **Interface:** Text fields in Enscape now support the standard right-click context menu (cut/copy/paste). - **Performance:** Improved export/transmission speed through more efficient data compression. ## **Fixed Bugs** --- - **View Management:** Fixed section planes not getting applied correctly when switching views. - **View Management:** Fixed Enscape window becoming unfocused after switching views from View Management. - **View Management:** Fixed clusters occasionally failing to register hover and click interactions. - **Veras:** Fixed video download from Veras not working. - **Diagnostics:** Fixed BootError log files being created even when there were no errors. - **Veras:** Pasting text into input fields in the Cosmos Asset Library, 3D Streaming, Upload to Cloud, and Veras is now available on macOS. - **Asset Library:** Fixed the CAD Asset Library panel closing unexpectedly when trying to select search results. - **Asset Library:** Fixed the Asset Library panel closing when using arrow keys to navigate the Cosmos search field. - **View Management:** The back button is now positioned correctly according to the design. - **Interface:** Fixed the About button text overlapping in some languages. - **Asset Brush:** Fixed the Asset Brush preview option remaining enabled even when there were no placed assets left to preview. - **Material Editor:** Fixed AI-generated material import failing if the Chaos Cosmos Browser window was closed while the material was downloading. - **BIM Panel:** Fixed the BIM panel not retaining the previous search filter after closing and reopening it. - **Site Context:** Fixed the Site Context map resizer drifting away from the cursor when zooming with the scroll wheel while resizing. - **Multi Asset Placement:** Scaling and Tilting sliders are now disabled in the rectangle, circle, and flood-fill placement modes, where they had no effect. - **Installer:** Fixed the installer's "Please close these applications" list appearing slowly when Cloud Licensing was selected. - **Installer:** Fixed the installer's Language page caption to match the "Next" button. - **Help Panel:** Fixed an incorrect icon in the Help Panel for changing the time of day. - **Ray Tracing:** Fixed a visual issue with ray-traced shadows and rotated vegetation. - **Ray Tracing:** Fixed backface UV mapping sometimes looking incorrect in reflections. - **Rendering:** Fixed a potential issue with inaccurate physics when objects are mirrored. - **Rendering:** Fixed an error in Auto Exposure calculations when using a white sky background. - **Light Management:** Fixed light indicators not displaying correctly in "Show Visible Only" mode. - **Selection Highlight:** Fixed incorrect selection highlight rendering on recent Intel drivers. - **Rendering:** Fixed a bloom issue that caused it to take up less area at higher resolutions. - **Minimap:** Fixed a bug where users could get teleported after resizing the minimap. - **SketchUp:** Fixed the video texture thumbnail not showing in the Material Editor in SketchUp. - **SketchUp:** Fixed the Asset Library window in SketchUp not closing via its shortcut. - **Vectorworks:** Fixed textures in Vectorworks being lost when modifying a material. ## **Known Issues** --- - **Chaos Assistant Asset Suggest: **Single asset placement may be imprecise. - **Chaos Assistant Asset Suggest: **In some cases, dragging an asset may place multiple instances instead of a single one. - **Chaos Assistant Asset Suggest: **Scrolling may behave unexpectedly while typing in the assistant panel. - **SketchUp:** Geometry created with SketchUp's procedural (Labs) tools cannot currently be exported.