--- title: "4.8.0 Windows" canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/ERN/110067785/4.8.0%20Windows" format: markdown --- Release Notes 25.06.2025 ## **New** --- - **Support Photoreal Materials in SketchUp 2025:** 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. ![image](media://d7af2b59-6fb7-4053-92e1-98fc3c015936) --- ![image](media://db8d4d54-eb84-4e12-b83c-5862b56af6da) - **Image Quality Improvements - Ray-Traced Sun Shadows for Walkthrough Mode: **This update enables software ray traced sun shadows in walkthrough mode, with performance optimized for small to medium scenes and a toggle option for user control. Users with hardware ray tracing can now disable sun shadows in walkthroughs without turning off the feature entirely. ![image](media://e00cae82-53c7-4955-baae-cfec2c98bb6a) - **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. ![image](media://18e8212a-db87-4123-9d79-738272f672e8) - **24 FPS Video Output Setting:** The Frames per Second dropdown in *Visual Settings > Output > Video* now includes 24 FPS as an option, enabling users to export videos with cinematic frame rates alongside existing values. - **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 ![image](media://9c89a734-e376-4857-b015-3c90e34ec009) - 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 ![image](media://65327951-0471-49dc-9f65-42a7eca15d37) - Visual settings - Ambient Brightness (*Visual Settings > Atmosphere > Illumination)* is now disabled as option when the Rendering Quality is not set to Draft ![image](media://5470b043-767a-41ae-9ea9-95f914d95929) - Chaos Academy Link Added to Help Panel - The Enscape Help panel now includes a direct link to [Chaos Academy](https://academy.chaos.com/), making it easier for users to access learning resources and training materials. ![image](media://9466ca39-ed64-4f5e-9ca5-c9d7b5d6b6b3) ## **Fixed Bugs** --- - **Enscape Does Not Start On CPUs Without AVX2 Support: **Enscape now starts on CPUs with SSE4.2 support - **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 the 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. - **CryptographicException when exporting IES lights to V-Ray scene:** Resolved a rare issue where exporting scenes containing multiple IES lights to V-Ray scene could intermittently trigger a CryptographicException, potentially interrupting the export process. - **Fatal error when acquiring license for Enscape renderer window:** Fixed an extremely rare race condition that could eventually lead to a crash with the fatal error “Failed while retrying to engage a license.” - **[Enscape Impact] Top Floor Of Building Is Not Recognized:** The whole building is now analyzed. - **VR - Changing seated/roomscale mode while moving keeps you moving forward after you've stopped holding the joystick: **Changing modes now works properly. - **[SketchUp] Per-View Section Plane Visibility Is Determined By Native Global RenderingOptions: **Section plane is now respected during the batch rendering of the first view. - **[SketchUp] View Not Reapplied After Batch Rendering: **section planes are now visualized properly - **[SketchUp] Crash When Using Erase in The Ruby Console: **the command now is executed properly - **[SketchUp] 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. - **[SketchUp] Installing Enscape Into a Custom Directory Does Not Work: **Enscape can now be can be installed correctly within folder that have any character or unicodes - **[Revit] Collaborative annotations functionality crashes Revit 2026: **Collaboration mode now works properly. - **[Revit] Enscape is stuck when the view transition is unfinished while screenshot capture starts:** Enscape now functions as expected. - **[Revit] Specific Material Schema Parsing Crashes Enscape:** Enscape now starts and works properly with no crashes. - **[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 - **[Rhino] View switching does not work with multiple documents:** Resolved an issue in Rhino 8 where switching views from the View Management panel with multiple documents open only updated the camera orientation without displaying the correct geometry from the selected project.   ## **Known Issues** --- - **SSO Login Bug Prevents Second User from Using Enscape on Same PC:** A second user cannot sign in into Enscape using their own credentials and obtain a license session.