Toggle for continuos cloud/water movement

MatthiasL · Aug 14th 2019

Currently water and the clouds stop moving approx 1sec after the view was altered last. This is even the case on Ultra settings which is mildly jarring when doing customer presentations. I know, perfomance reasons and all that but please, dear folks at Enscape: give us at least the option to keep water and the sky moving even when not looking around. As it stands Enscape does not support any animations whatsoever (except, well, the sky and water) so keeping those in motion gives at least some semblance of life in our presentations.

Please, make this happen.

Clemens Musterle · Aug 14th 2019

The reason why animations stop when the camera is not moving is not only due to performance (which is also important, since people tend to work with the CAD side by side and running Enscape will significantly drop the performance of any CADs real-time viewport), but also quality reasons. When stopping camera movement we do accumulate a couple of more frames with higher rendering quality (similar to when rendering an image). This wouldn't be possible with animated water/sky and we do think it's more relevant to have a higher rendering quality there. But we'll see, there might be some other solutions to this issue in the future!

MatthiasL · Aug 14th 2019

Thanks for answering, Clemens Musterle . I get what you're saying though I still have to make the point - why not give at least the option to toggle this (or toggle it based on the chosen quality preset)? Having it jump from moving to a standstill again and again when doing standalone presentation is definitely jarring, recently customers even pointed it out while we were doing a presentation.

At this point I'd honestly even take not having animated clouds and water whatsoever over having things grind to a halt after a second again and again.

Gadget · Aug 14th 2019

This has been asked for before, and I get Clemens's explanation... BUT in programming there is an event you can detect when an application has (or is just about to) loose focus (i.e. the mouse/user controls switch away from Enscape to the native CAD package.) Is it such a stretch to maintain cloud rolling and water movement until Enscape looses focus?

andybot · Aug 14th 2019

+1 Honestly, this bugs me in presentations too. Simple toggle would be lovely to at least disable water and cloud movement so it's not a distraction.

renderwiz · Aug 16th 2019

+1 for either solution

DC8Studio · Jul 16th 2020

We will thrown this here again.

Especially with 2.8 and animated trees and grass, it is even more jarring.

Please set a toggle to keep animating while focus is on the enscape app

I want rolling skies, water and ideally a animated sun while you stand there.

Trees gently swaying really add to this look

MatthiasL · Jul 16th 2020

Yep, this definitely needs to happen.

DC8Studio · Jul 16th 2020

Kind of related,

Can we have adjustable speed of cloud animation (and more animation settings for clouds please)

Maybe even link the cloud and wind speed together

Atm, clouds move a tiny amount but its a hurricane a blowin.

Bashkatov · Jul 16th 2020

+1

Nuge · Jul 16th 2020

+100

Rick Marx · Jul 17th 2020

Thank you for your votes, I have added them to our feature request!

Demian Gutberlet · Sep 23rd 2020

Hey everyone, just as a heads up, the ability to have continues water and vegetation animations is now implemented in our latest preview. Clouds are not yet moving, if you'd still like to see that functionality implemented as well let me know.

DC8Studio · Sep 25th 2020

yes please for clouds moving while camera still, ive been asking for ages too.....

DC8Studio · Sep 25th 2020

Im not getting continuous movement for trees/grass and clouds have stopped moving completley.

2.9.0-3+19138

Renderer 2.9.08.873-g5907ce6

RTX2080TI

is there a setting to enable this.. cant see it

***EDIT
ahh found it it settings - Called RESTMODE
please can this be moved to the visual settinbgs tab....

Demian Gutberlet · Sep 25th 2020

Quote from DC8Studio

Im not getting continuous movement for trees/grass and clouds have stopped moving completley.

2.9.0-3+19138

Renderer 2.9.08.873-g5907ce6

RTX2080TI

is there a setting to enable this.. cant see it

***EDIT
ahh found it it settings - Called RESTMODE
please can this be moved to the visual settinbgs tab....

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I'll forward your feedback, thanks!

ESIDesign · Nov 5th 2020

+1 for the new video texture as well. Need the video texture to keep playing when camera is not moving.

Demian Gutberlet · Nov 6th 2020

Quote from ESIDesign

+1 for the new video texture as well. Need the video texture to keep playing when camera is not moving.

That is already possible - Go into our "General Settings" -> "Performance" and deactivate the "Restmode" feature.

DC8Studio · Nov 10th 2020

Just tried with lastest release build and the sky/clouds do not move at all anymore. in rest mode or not.

The clouds used to slowly move when moving around. Which looked awesome.

Can that feature come back...

enscape stu · Aug 1st 2022

Currently, in our standalone executable, we have a virtual reality option. This option allows continuous clouds or wind or other animations. If this feature with continuous animation is included in our Enscape standalone executable, why can't we also include an option for continuous animations in the standalone executable, but controlled by keyboard?

Since we have Virtual Reality, I guess a lot of users used it, so I think the average users have a considerably strong computer. Even if there are a lot of users out there with low computer specs, I think Enscape should allow those with high computer specs to be able to switch on that feature. For those with low specs, they can simply switch the continuous animation feature off, so that they can still use their Enscape properly.

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