Chaos Envision: A new real-time animation and 3D assembly tool for archviz (beta)
What sets Envision apartEnvision helps you to showcase your design with ray-traced photorealism, endless variations, and smooth, uninterrupted workflows, ensuring your project is always presented at its best.This is just the beta, but already, there are a few things that set Envision apart.Smooth integration with Chaos toolsWith Envision, you can benefit from a smooth integration with many Chaos tools, including Enscape, V-Ray and Corona, the Cosmos asset library, the Anima engine for super realistic humans and crowd simulation, and Chaos Scatter for fast, creative object scattering. Thanks to the .vrscene file format, data exchange is easy. Geometry, materials, lights, and assets can be shared between your design tool (SketchUp, Revit, Rhino, Vectorworks, Archicad) or DCC (3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Maya, Houdini, Blender) together with Envision.Real-time advanced animationEnvisions 3D animation for architectural visualization is both powerful and easy to use from moving objects on paths to coordinating crowds of animated humans, from showing construction phasing to design variations and sun studies.Massive scene support & seamless scalingEnvision effortlessly handles massive scene sizes. It offers robust scene assembly with granular control, so you won't need to worry if your scene is getting too large. Additionally, thanks to scene scaling, as your scenes get bigger, you can take advantage of advanced visualization features, such as animation, without the performance or image quality degrading.Scene manipulation at object levelEnjoy greater creative editing by being able to manipulate specific objects in a scene. Manipulate transformations like position, rotation, and scale, as well as material assignments, grouping, and instancing, for both referenced scenes and custom content. This saves you from having to return to the design tool every time you need to adjust something.Realistic animated humansThanks to the integration of the Anima engine, its easy to add humans in Envision that are realistic, follow the paths you draw, and avoid one another in crowds. Animas renowned high-quality 4D humans and more crowd capabilities will be added in a future beta release.Incredible visual qualityThanks to 100% ray tracing, Envision offers enhanced rendering quality and realism. It can consistently and accurately calculate reflections, refractions, and global illumination while supporting scenes that can grow into trillions of instanced faces.No scene prep neededSince the scene data shown in V-Ray or Enscape can be transferred directly to Envision via the .vrscene file format, your visualization process can start right away. No scene prep needed! This is a big workflow and time-saving advantage, as there is no need to reduce complexity in order to meet the needs of a game engine or a different environment.Envision supports V-Ray and Enscape materials, lights, cameras, and asset libraries, saving you time from having to recreate and adjust these elements.Continuous design workflowAll designs evolve, and Envision makes it easy to keep your visualization up to date by respecting your decisions and keeping them applied as your exports change.