I updated to the new version they released this morning and now I cannot create any images or videos. I have tried contacting them but since the support team is in Germany, I will not get any response back until tomorrow. I hope this is just a hiccup and that it will get fixed tomorrow!!! UPDATE OK everyone, you should now see a bright red glow from my face all around the world. I made a horrible mistake with the post above. I just discovered that there is now a 2nd toolbar for Enscape that is Enscape Capturing. I was 100% in error. I left the original text just so everyone would see my stupid mistake if they installed the Enscape trial and saw the same thing I did. I'm down to 5 days left of my trial, has been a fun program so far, sure there are issues and bugs, missing basic features and all but this has some great promise. I have seen many animation software for SU for exteriors that work great, not many have a good enough GI for interiors besides some sort of AO engine with complicated add-ons to get an acceptable result. Here is an old model used years ago to test Thea, perfect to test interior GI, there are no lights yet in Enscape so this is all filtered sunlight. You will see some artifacts and uneven lighting but I mus say for an alpha this is a robust product and very enjoyable. OK - What the heck am I missing? Is this a number of smaller animations that you sewed together or did I miss something about using scenes and the SU animation? Again, when they get some of the things you mention fixed, wouldn't it be neat to use Animator and Enscape together! BTW: If you contact their support team, they will give you another trial since it is still in alpha. Okay, I believe I have had enough time to give my evaluation of Enscape as it is currently. The Pros: - Interior GI, by far the best I have seen from any animation software linked to Sketchup - The integration and workflow within SU, live updates and very smooth flow, not sure if it's based on my Titan card but it was really smooth on my side. The Cons: - This program is incomplete and seems a while until it's ready for release - Installation issues and updates seem to break causing more installation issues. Other notes: Pricing seems good based on what I hope the final product will be, currently not as it's not even close to a market-ready product, even though I am no fan of software for rent. Support seems lacking even on their own forums it seems only one moderator turns up once in awhile, almost as if the dev team all have day jobs and this is a hobby. Revit seems to be the primary product and Sketchup a byproduct that does not get their full attention even though SU users outnumber Revit users a thousand fold. No real dedicated beta team, no bug tracking. Wishes: I cannot see this being a breakthrough product for SU unless it overcomes SU Achilles heel of being poly challenged, so vast scenes with vegetation will never happen unless there is some sort of Enscape supplied vegetation optimized for their product similar to what LumenRT has, or it integrates with Skatter in some way Animation, nothing here animates, so I'm not saying it needs a library of animated people but do think they need to support animator. The animation would certainly be a lot better with a keyframe-based system, too limited currently. As the product is right now I would still recommend Lumion as your exterior animation software and when Enscape offers a material editor and lighting then Enscape becomes the go to interior animation software. I never mentioned anything regarding to the VR tools, I do not have a head-set so I could not test this. I think Pete has given a really good analysis of Enscape. The only think I might add is WebGL capabilities like Sketchfab or CL3VER. While panoramas are neat and yes, Enscape has a panorama tool I, and I think others, would like to be able to display products in a rotatable 3D environment like Sketchfab or CL3VER. Enscape does have the ability at least for Revit to generate an exe which can be shared with customers. However, that does not give me the capability to show products on a web site in a 3D environment. As Pete said though, this is just the alpha version and it looks like there is some real potential for the future. They will also need to step up their support though as well. Again, Pete was right on. Hi, Thomas from Enscape here. I feel honored to read about your interest in our tool! We are currently several weeks from a real Enscape for SketchUp release. The idea behind offering an alpha version was to gather initial feedback from a few people - if it would not be an incomplete alpha, we would have released it. The amount of excitement is a lot more than we initially thought - of course looking back, an invite-only alpha would have been more appropriate. Anyway, it's great to read about all your ideas and opinions! We are making good progress in fixing the bugs you reported to us. In the meantime beside the fixes , we also added the section plane and a solution for fast grass rendering. I'm sure we can keep up a good development speed to incorporate your wishes! Our goal has always been the idea of creating high quality deliverables walkthroughs, VR, videos, panorama, images without the need of making adjustments to your project and keeping a separate Enscape project file - all within seconds thanks to powerful real time rendering. I found some videos on YouTube about SketchUp and Enscape that I thought some of you might find really interesting: These 2 videos are by Winning with SketchUp This one deals with the materials: 14:56 min This one deals with animation: 1:52 min This one is from TheSketchUpEssentials is kind of a nice starting point: 9:22 min Hope you find them useful and entertaining. A compilation of videos I have created with Enscape to showcase how diverse the application can be. Cannot wait for some basic features to be implemented like lights, material editor, keyframe controls, and a proxy system. Royalty free music 'ignite to life' Select HD if you can as it was done in 1080p.
