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title: "4.8.0 Preview 1 macOS"
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Release Notes 04.06.2025

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**New**

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- <span style="color: #000000">**Support Photoreal Materials in SU2025**</span>**:** <span style="color: #000000">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.</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">**Automatic level of detail for scene geometry**</span>**:** <span style="color: #000000">A new approach to automatically simplify the scene geometry in order to provide performance increases for scenes with a higher geometric complexity.</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">**Check for Running Embedded Apps and Errors reporting**</span>**:** <span style="color: #000000">Improve handling of running processes and error reporting for all embedded installations in the Enscape Installer</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">**Improved Visual Balance in Pen & Pencil Sketch Mode**</span>**:** 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://335be747-0972-447d-9d9a-4ccc5b2d99d7)


- **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://39fd021b-223b-48d0-a15b-8708f1ea697d)


  - 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


## **Fixed Bugs**

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- <span style="color: #000000">**Favorite views do not show up in VR or standalones**</span>**:** <span style="color: #000000">Favorite views are now properly displayed.</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">**Asset Library – Rotation Y gets stuck at 270–271 degrees when using mouse scroll wheel**</span>**:** <span style="color: #000000">Rotation now works smoothly.</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">**Assigned shortcut disappears from settings UI**</span>**:** <span style="color: #000000">Assigned shortcuts now persist and are shown correctly across settings sessions.</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">**Error when trying to edit a collaboration annotation**</span>**:** <span style="color: #000000">Annotations can now be successfully modified.</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">**Veras - Inconsistent toolbar button style**</span>**:** <span style="color: #000000">Icon is now styled as all other icons on the toolbar</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">**NewForma Connect - Orthographic camera can lead to loading issue**</span>**:** <span style="color: #000000">Orthographic camera can now be used properly with NewForma Connect functionality</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">**Custom Asset Editor encrypts imported files when converting their format**</span>**:** <span style="color: #000000">Custom assets can now be successfully exported and imported again.</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">**VR - Changing seated/roomscale mode while moving keeps you moving forward after you've stopped holding the joystick**</span>**:** <span style="color: #000000">Changing modes now works properly.</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">**[Sketch up] Per-View Section Plane Visibility Is Determined By Native Global RenderingOptions**</span>**:** <span style="color: #000000">Section plane is now respected during the batch rendering of the first view.</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">**[Sketch up] View Not Reapplied After Batch Rendering**</span>**:** <span style="color: #000000">section planes are now visualized properly</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">**[Sketch up] Crash When Using Erase in The Ruby Console**</span>**:** <span style="color: #000000">the command now is executed properly</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">**[Sketch up] Black and White Images Are Not Correctly Shown in Material Editor**</span>**:** <span style="color: #000000">The preview now looks like the original image, same as when the texture is added via Enscape ME.</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">**[Vectorworks] Geometry Sync Breaks After Switching to Top/Plan View**</span>**:** <span style="color: #000000">Now geometry gets updated accordingly.</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">**[Rhino] Cannot create materials based on TIFF images**</span>**:** <span style="color: #000000">Now materials are successfully created</span>


## **Known Issues**

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- <span style="color: #000000">**SSO Login Bug Prevents Second User from Using Enscape on Same PC**</span>**:** <span style="color: #000000">A second user can not sign in into Enscape using their own credentials and obtain a license session.</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">**Enscape crashes during export when CAD UI is in use**</span>**:** <span style="color: #000000">When export is in progress change something on the CAD window example:applying a material,creating a new geometry Enscape crashes</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">**Color change leads to a change in the material ID**</span>**:** <span style="color: #000000">Material ID is not persistent after color change.</span>