“We encourage beta testers to share their feedback with us so we can further improve and develop the software to better meet their needs before the official release.” Available Features and Functionality “This is an exciting opportunity for users to test Enscape for Mac for free and tell us what they think,” said Joachim Hirsch, head of product management at Enscape. The free beta is available in English to users globally. The initial release has 70% feature parity with Enscape version 3.1 and includes the core design workflow functionalities. Here’s one more closeup of the SketchUp viewport and corresponding Enscape render after 1 second.Enscape, a leading provider of real-time rendering, virtual reality, and design workflow technology for the global AEC industry, announces an open beta of Enscape for Mac, available to SketchUp 2021 users. I find the “reduced polygons” approach makes it easy to fine-tune the trees positioning and orientation so that branches don’t go places you don’t want them to. Not so pretty looking in the SketchUp viewport though… Enscape opted to show their native assets with an “envelope” style mesh which seems cleaner to the eye but maybe not faster on the viewport. This is how it looks with the big trees all over the grounds! It is much smoother using the “Low Poly” version of the assets inside SketchUp with faster scene load times. In addition to importing the Globe Plants models into Enscape, they also optimized the 3d mesh, material, and textures to fit the “Low Poly” concept. The scattering process was fast and screen performance did not degrade a bit. Using the “zones” feature of Skatter for the clustering of plant types. The single items are placed outside the house walls. With SketchUp, you can scatter objects using the Skatter plugin, and I know that you can use the RhinoNature plugin for that in Rhino.īelow you can see the (very basic) “painted” type scattering of small plants around the test house lawn. With this toolkit, the generated assets can be used for any 3D platform Enscape supports, like Sketchup, Revit, Archicad, Vectorworks, Rhinoceros, and more.Įnscape objects work perfectly with plugins inside the software. I could create assets for Enscape by myself through the Enscape Custom Asset option in their content browser. When version 2.9 of Enscape came out, things changed for the better in that regard.

Enscape in sketchup