--- title: "4.14.0 Preview 3 Windows" canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/ERN/353337370/4.14.0%20Preview%203%20Windows" format: markdown --- Release Notes 03.12.2025 ## **New** --- - **Light Management Browser** The new Light Management Browser enables adjusting light properties directly inside Enscape. Light intensity, color, and on or off states can be controlled through Light Presets, while original CAD values stay unchanged. Multi selection, and proportional adjustments support efficient work in large scenes. Presets can be saved per view, allowing the same light sources to produce different lighting conditions that shape the atmosphere of each scene and help clarify lighting decisions. *Note: Light Management in this preview offers an early version of the feature. Some functions are not included yet. Additional controls and improvements will follow in the initial release.* ![light management.jpg](media://80669602-8700-4699-b9ee-282ce499d511) - **Material Generator via Cosmos (Beta):** You can now generate materials directly from an image inside the Enscape Material Editor. After clicking Generate Material, a simple Cosmos window lets you upload a photo or texture, and Enscape returns a complete material with all maps applied. The new material appears automatically in your editor so you can keep designing without interruption. This early beta focuses on speed and convenience, with more capabilities planned for the future releases. ![matgen 1.png](media://1fd223fe-c45c-484f-9acd-c998f56e91b3) --- ![matgen2.png](media://c48c8de6-dde2-441d-9b9b-9759875f1358) - **New Grass Models: **More detailed grass models with geometry variations for different height ranges have been added. This results in more realistic appearance when viewed up close, especially for bigger grass heights. ![HighGrass-before (1).png](media://29aab742-1724-4d6f-a386-2045ccf92f46) ![HighGrass-after (1).png](media://e2c8dfa2-eea9-4b11-9658-6ab761eeb9f4) --- ![ShortGrass-before (1).png](media://37320f46-5e19-450c-93c3-935a7bfc1978) ![ShortGrass-after (2).png](media://3ae1df2e-5b7b-497f-8213-46be7f36ed95) - **Grass Improved Border Handling: **Grass surfaces now blend more naturally at their edges. Height and density transition smoothly toward the border, reducing visible low poly patches and unwanted overlap with nearby surfaces. This results in cleaner, more natural grass boundaries. ![grass border (1).png](media://ef83413a-1416-4ef0-a7a6-1e2cb26305b6) - **Impact detailed report export:** Updated labels across all sheets, renamed Space data to Room data, aligned terms with the UI, corrected heating and cooling energy units to kWh, added a unit to Cooling Setpoint, and fixed units for Occupancy Density, Sensible Gain and Latent Gain. - **V-Ray Scene Export and Share Scene UI updates:** Updated the UI for scene export and sharing. The Share Scene window now uses the title 3D Streaming. The V-Ray Scene Export button has an updated icon, a revised tooltip, and the export window is now titled Scene Export. ## **Fixed Bugs** --- - **Materials: **Fixed texture/material names with invalid Windows filename characters causing problems when trying to save said textures on the file system during export. - **Renderer:** Disabled the Ray Traced Artificial Lights setting on AMD GPUs due to driver related visual artefacts and instability. A future AMD driver update may resolve the issue. - **Share Screen (3D Streaming):** Share Scene now checks if the Chaos Cloud Client is installed for the current system account. If it is missing, an error message explains that the client must be installed before continuing. - **Custom Asset Editor:** Fixed a crash in Custom Asset Editor when navigating with Tab key after editing asset parameters. - **Exports:** Fixed black pixel artifacts in JPEG exports. - **Licensing: **When trying to engage a license (e.g. by opening the renderer) with an unreachable license server (e.g. no network or wrong configuration), Enscape would crash ~1min thereafter. The fix should fully prevent this from happening. - **Grass:** Fixed discontinuities in grass with a specific combination of settings. - **Grass:** Fixed shadows of grass could disappear from the ground depending on the camera perspective. - **Grass:** Improved shadows of grass. - **Impact:** Fixed an issue where profile IDs were displayed instead of the descriptive names in Impact’s detailed report. ## **Known Issues** --- - **Enscape crashes in (heavy load) captures: **Crash in PathTrace.glsl may occur under high GPU loads when rendering large screenshots (e.g., 4K with artificial lights or 6K without artificial lights). - Grass on steep slopes may appear sparse.