Posts by Pieter

Also, what we were hoping for already has a perfect precedent in Enscape: the video editor offers the option to update camera positions easily from within the Enscape window + the option to override settings for each view, and all this information is saved in the camera path.

When you load the camera path , all overrides and positions are properly loaded.

We were hoping the 'reproduceable renderings' was going to take the same approach:

- one button to save all relevant settings to reproduce a view

- one button to update all relevant settings to reproduce a view

- when activating a view, Enscape loads all relevant settings (which, btw, would also be awesome for a live walkthrough with the client).

(btw, another great plus from the video editor: most edits can be done within the Enscape window!)

Again, I know everyone working on this has the best intentions, but this is something we struggle with on a daily basis and we really thought we were finally going to have a solution in a couple of weeks. So hopefully you understand our disappointment.

Thanks for your reply JoH and Christian Radowski

I know you guys are working hard and trying to balance the different requests. So I hope you're not going to take this personally, but I'm very disappointed with this feature. From your comments, it sounds like this is the first time you've heard this feedback, but it's been posted over and over again for the last two years (I've included some snippets below). Everytime we get a 'we have forwarded your feedback', but apparently, it was not forwarded to the right place?

We've been waiting years for this feature and we were very excited when it appeared on the 2.7 roadmap, but it turns out that this is going to be absolutely useless for us.

In general, it's disappointing that you wait to involve the community until a feature is (almost) completely finished. For these big features, why not post a mockup (even if it's just a description). Now it happens often that we hear 'yeah that's good feedback but it's almost done now, maybe some day we will change it'.

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September 2019 - In a message to Thomas

Regarding the reproducible renders, could you make this a 'one button save' that remembers ALL settings (camera position, lighting, image settings, etc).We'd like it to be as simple as possible (so no need to match the right Revit view with the right saved render settings etc).

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May 2019 - Different Settings for several views

Our users are hoping that these 'saved settings per view' are going to include sun angle, [sun] rotation and brightness. For us, the goal to save settings per view is to be able to reproduce the same shot again in a reliable manner. So we can generate the same shots over and over again while the design changes.

It's only going to be partially useful without the sun angle, [sun] rotation and brightness.

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April 2019 - Enscape settings in the cloud please

in our case there's almost always one setting that will be unique to that view. It's not just time of day that changes.

- FOV narrower or wider

- DOF on or off (or different focus)

- interior image needs different exposure than exterior (even if at same time of day)

- Image adjustments (contrast, saturation, lensflare etc)

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April 2019 - Saving settings: remember sun overrides

In the roadmap it says you are working on a remastering of the settings.

It would be great if you would also save sun overrides (CTRL + U/I and SHIFT + U/I). We sometimes override the sun position to get the perfect light angle, but it's really hard to redo these shots later as there's no way to save these overrides.

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November 2018 - Enscape settings saved with model

And it's also challenging that the settings are in different places

- time of day

- sun overrides (ctrl+u/i etc)

- everything in the settings dialog

- window frame

From an UI perspective, I wish the 'saved views' existed in two flavors:

- 'saved location' (which would just move you there but not change any of the settings)

- 'saved view' (which would remember all settings of that view, including any overrides you did to the sun, any settings in the setting dialog (exposure, image settings, ...)

If it can do that, then the batch render could render each view with its unique settings.

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Feb 2019 Enscape settings saved with model

I would propose to save the settings per view/scene. Different views will have different times of day, exposure settings etc.

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Jan 2018 - Create screenshots of all favorite views

Also, will there be a way to set/save different render settings per each view? Time of day, exposure, ... typically all of these settings change for each view.

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No, the idea is: Create a view (via the CAD or Enscape) and link a visual settings preset to it. That way you can adjust the settings for multiple views and create batch renderings with different settings per view.

Oh man that's a huge bummer. That sounds like a very tedious workflow to be honest.

There will be almost no cases were we would use the exact same settings for multiple views. There is always going to be something that's different. Different field of view, slightly different exposure, slightly different setting for lens flare, ... There is always something that we will want to tweak.

So it sounds that for each view, we will have to save out the settings, than also create the view, then have to link them together, and then when we update a shot we will have to make sure that we override the correct setting. And then if we want to move the camera we need to update the view, not the saved view settings, but if we change the FOV we need to change the settings not the view... try explaining this to your average architect (non-professional visualizer).

Very tedious indeed.

We were really hoping that we could set up a view, hit a button and then everything that Enscape needs to reproduce that exact same shot is saved. Then later we can come back to that shot, all the relevant settings are loaded, we can tweak if further (including moving the camera) and save the changes.

A 'dumb' but simple system is what we were hoping for. Kind of like how we set keyframes in the video editor.

I just read the FAQ article regarding the 2.7 preview 1. Very interesting.

Enscape 2.7 Preview FAQ

It says we can ask questions there about the new features, but the post is read only, so I'm posting them here:

• With the new WYSIWYG 'saved Enscape scenes' mode, will we be able to easily update an existing saved scene? For example, move the camera a little, tweak the exposure a bit and then push those updates to the saved scene?
• Will we be able to save the view (camera position) and view settings (exposure etc) with one button, or will we have to save both and then link the view to the setting? I'd prefer the first option (one button to save EVERYTHING that is required to reproduce the same shot)

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Definitely something which we plan to implement with a future release. But as always, we want to get it right the first time, so there is no ETA just yet when this will be developed.

For us this is definitely the #1 most important feature. If we could share assets through the Enscape cloud, it could also be a way to strengthen the community. A win-win for everyone.

I'm really hoping this will be prioritized in the next development cycle

Big +1 for material overrides on Proxies. We've ran into this exact problem with leaves as well, but there are countless other use cases for overrides in assets.

Changing of car colors

Making people fully white or black for conceptual look

Changing materials on furniture to match interior design scheme

Changing colors on accessories to blend into scene or bring more variety

Just want to add that selecting the right pieces is very important. I understand you don't want to stick to just one style, but all pieces should be attractive pieces in their own right. There's some random stuff in the furniture library right now that I can't imagine would work in any kind of style

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Good news is we are planning to release a custom 3D model-asset solution over the course of this year. We're very much looking forward to that.

That's great news. When assets first came to enscape, the quality of our Revit renderings increased a ton. Having something like the sketchup warehouse, where people can freely share content would mean another huge jump forward!

I agree with Chalk. I understand the sketchup library is a great resource for Sketchup users, but these models cannot be brought into Revit (they look ugly and make the model unmanageable).

We are actually hoping that Enscape will allow for user-created content, and that we can build a user-driven enscape asset library online, similar to the sketchup warehouse.

I tried launching enscape on revit 2019 and 2020 but it will never get passed this screen

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I even tried launching an empty project, but it won't launch.

I also reset my enscape settings.

I hope you will consider a way to turn off these animations. I have founds stuff like this to be extremely distracting in a client presentation.

We often use potted ivy on shelves/cupboards etc to make things look a bit more lively.

Some examples of shots where this is used:

- https://www.google.com/imgres?…jLAigKMAo&iact=mrc&uact=8

- https://www.google.com/imgres?…juAigUMBQ&iact=mrc&uact=8

- https://www.google.com/imgres?…iZAygoMCg&iact=mrc&uact=8

Would it be possible to provide some more generic assets (ideally without pots) that would help us create this effect. We have a couple atm but some extra combinations (wider, shorter, more brighter green, ...) would help a lot.

For example something like:

- https://www.google.com/imgres?…iEAygaMBo&iact=mrc&uact=8

- https://www.nearlynatural.com/…1S3QSdEAQYCSABEgKx5vD_BwE

- https://www.wayfair.com/Highla…1S3QSdEAQYAyABEgIUEvD_BwE

- https://www.onekingslane.com/p/2279268-44-ivy-in-pot-faux.do?ds_rl=1251272&g_acctid=950-816-3787&g_campaign=OKLN_BT_GO_A0A3x_WA_G_PLAx_CATCHAL_NA&g_campaignid=923459905&g_adgroupid=45767100386&g_adid=219790608643&g_keyword=&g_keywordid=pla-293946777986&g_adtype=pla&g_merchantid=7993200&g_productchannel=online&g_productid=76584096&g_partition=293946777986&g_network=g&g_ifproduct=product&g_ifcreative=&Wt.srch=1&utm_source=google&utm_medium=search&utm_term=%7c&utm_content=Toys%7c%7cds_kid%7cs92700024990023193_dc%7cpcrid%7c219790608643%7cpkw%7c%7cpmt%7c&utm_campaign=OKLN_BT_GO_A0A3x_WA_G_PLAx_CATCHAL_NA&utm_dsaccountid=700000001611370&utm_dsaccounttype=GOOGLE&utm_dscampaignid=71700000025485183&loc_physical_ms=9073497&MCID=PS_GO_P-A0_All+Products_Core&gclid=EAIaIQobChMItKL9l8Py5gIViJ6zCh1S3QSdEAQYAiABEgLqV_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Thanks for the new books in the library update! Exactly what we were looking for.

Would it be possible to get some more options for rugs? They are very useful but we don't have a ton of options atm. Also, as we can't non-uniformly stretch in Revit, it would be helpful if you could provide them in different aspect ratios (for example square, rectangular, ...).

Some pictures for inspiration:

https://rugs.com/dark-gray-7x1…0bagSdEAQYCCABEgIxRPD_BwE

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/274297433544472790/

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/274297433534252705/?lp=true

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/274297433540384169/

https://www.westelm.com/produc…rug-t5122/?cm_src=AutoRel

https://www.westelm.com/produc…rug-t5033/?cm_src=AutoRel

https://www.westelm.com/produc…rug-t4549/?cm_src=AutoRel

https://www.westelm.com/produc…eel-t1811/?cm_src=AutoRel

https://www.westelm.com/produc…rug-t4517/?cm_src=AutoRel

https://www.google.com/imgres?…iBAygQMBA&iact=mrc&uact=8

https://www.google.com/imgres?…j2Ayg5MDk&iact=mrc&uact=8

https://www.google.com/imgres?…iZBChHMEc&iact=mrc&uact=8

https://www.google.com/imgres?…iqBChPME8&iact=mrc&uact=8

https://www.google.com/imgres?…jDBChaMFo&iact=mrc&uact=8

https://www.google.com/imgres?…noECAEQDg&iact=mrc&uact=8

https://www.google.com/imgres?…jPAigEMAQ&iact=mrc&uact=8

Maybe F11 as a shortcut?

Big +1 from us as well!

When we use revit+enscape we miss the simplicity of the sketchup enscape lights.

I know that in theory this can be done by creating Revit lighting families but it's a lot more cumbersome compared to what enscape made for sketchup.

Would it be possible to offer a similar functionality as the sketchup enscape lights through the asset library for Revit?

So that we can easily drag in a few filler lights (point lights, linear, plane etc).

We would have to be able to change color and intensity.

We would love to see a generic white (or black) version for things like trees and especially people as well.

The 3d people can be a distraction, especially when the model is still in a conceptual state. Being able to quickly make the people look more conceptual would be very helpful. Sometimes white works best, sometimes black will work better (it depends on the general colors used in the model).

We often can't use the overall 'white mode' because we do want to some at least some textures (for example the major finishes of the building).

Let's hope this will be covered by the 'fully reproducible renderings' feature they are working on right now

In Belgium and France for example they use a AZERTY keyboard layout, which makes the WASD very awkward to use.

Out of curiosity: how does Enscape handle this right now?