10 Enscape highlights of 2025

Summary:

This article explores 10 notable Enscape features and updates released in 2025, including integrations with products within the Chaos ecosystem, such as Veras, Cosmos, and Chaos Cloud. It also spotlights stories from architects, designers, and educators who shared how Enscape helped elevate their workflows.

Earlier this year, Enscape releases moved to continuous delivery, which gave you regular, incremental updates as soon as they were ready. On top of performance improvements and bug fixes, 2025 gave you a stack of new Enscape features to help you get to design decisions faster.

What features did Enscape release in 2025?

There were many new features, updates, and improvements released in Enscape in 2025. They included more exciting AI functionality, access to animations, and integrations with products within the Chaos ecosystem like Veras, Cosmos, and Chaos Cloud.

Here are the Enscape highlights at a glance:

• Veras AI integration
• Cosmos integration & new assets
• AI in Enscape
• Emissive materials as ray-traced light sources
• Revit filters & graphic overrides
• Chaos Cloud 3D streaming
• Selective asset exclusive in white mode
• Enscape Impact updates
• Accesible animations
• Save as external model for Enscape for SketchUp
• Enscape customer stories of 2025

1. Veras AI integration 

Veras is an AI-powered visualization tool that integrates with Enscape, making it ideal for fast creative design exploration. It uses generative AI to transform sketches, 2D images, and 3D models into realistic renderings via written prompts.

Veras is a plugin for popular CAD tools such as Revit, SketchUp, Rhino, Vectorworks, or Archicad. It allows you to quickly generate AI renderings and short animation snippets based on your model when in the earliest stages of design, without needing to leave Enscape.

2. Cosmos integration & new assets

Cosmos is available in Enscape, offering a library of carefully curated 3D assets that are optimized for real-time. If you're using Enscape 4.11 or later, you'll notice that Cosmos replaces the Enscape Asset Library as the asset delivery platform. This update provides a growing collection of ready-to-use, low-poly assets, including vegetation, furniture, people, access, and more.

Cosmos users imported over 100 million assets into their projects in 2025. Find out which assets were the most frequently imported since the beginning of the year in this article.

3. AI in Enscape

AI Enhancer with advanced controls

The AI Enhancer gives you fine-grained control over people and vegetation assets. The enhancements are enabled by object masks, which come straight from Enscape, providing you with easy-to-use controls. You can adjust the clothing style of people assets or refine vegetation such as trees, shrubs, and grass to look more realistic

AI Upscaler

Available on Chaos Cloud Collaboration, the AI Upscaler allows you to elevate renders to crisp, high-resolution masterpieces—up to an impressive 16K. It’s a smart, artist-friendly tool that enables architects and designers to turn low-resolution drafts or renders into presentation-ready visuals.

AI Material Generator

The AI Material Generator transforms any real-world surface photo into ready-to-use PBR material in Cosmos. It allows you to quickly populate environments and interiors without compromising believability and there is no manual editing or complicated workflows involved. This early beta focuses on speed and convenience, with more capabilities planned for future releases.

4. Emissive materials as ray-traced light sources

Emissive materials now behave as true light sources when hardware ray tracing is enabled. This ensures more predictable lighting, reduces noise artifacts, and eliminates the need for inefficient modeling workarounds. For example, with LED light strips, you no longer have to place multiple light sources to illuminate a scene.

Enscape Windows users will benefit from: 

• Cleaner, more consistent lighting behavior across all emissive materials.
• Enhanced filtering and sampling methods that minimize noise and ensure efficiency in small and large-scale projects.
• Matched behavior of analytical and mesh lights for better realism.

5. Revit Filters and Graphic Overrides

Enscape supports Revit Filters and Graphics Overrides for linked models. This improves visual consistency between Revit and Enscape renderings. Support for background patterns is also available, which is toggled on via Enscape’s General Settings dialog.

In previous Enscape versions, graphical overrides didn’t affect linked models, so any filters applied to elements coming from a consultant’s model wouldn’t show up. With this update, those overrides are now applied to linked geometry as well.

To use the image above as an example, we’ve overridden the piping systems in different colors. Since this model is linked from the mechanical engineer, you can now see the colors correctly represented in Enscape.

Enscape also mirrors Revit’s behavior when multiple overrides are applied to the same element. In this case, we’ve set the stairs to a red color and added 50% transparency, and as you can see, that’s exactly how it’s displayed in Enscape. 

6. Chaos Cloud 3D streaming

Enscape introduced 3D scene sharing in beta, allowing you to upload your 3D scene to Chaos Cloud and share it with your team and clients easily. The Chaos Cloud streaming service makes it easy to present and review Enscape designs remotely, without hardware limitations or heavy file transfers.

Once the 3D scenes are uploaded and shared, your clients or collaborators can then navigate and explore the entire model themselves, using the same high-quality graphics that were used to create it. This ensures design intent is communicated clearly and accurately.

7. Selective asset exclusion in White Mode

This feature allows you to exclude specific Enscape assets or asset categories from White Mode, providing more control over what appears in white and what retains its colors and materials.

You can highlight specific elements while keeping the rest of the scene in White Mode, enhancing design presentations by making it easier to focus on critical project details. Additionally, an 'Invert Appearance' option allows selected assets to appear in white, while everything else retains its original colors and materials.

8. Enscape Impact updates

Enscape Impact, the Enscape add-on that provides fast energy modeling simulation for the early stages of design, saw a few updates in 2025:

Section tool

A new Section Tool in Enscape Impact allows you to visually isolate individual floors of a building for focused performance review. This makes it easier to analyze results on a room-by-room basis in large or multi-story projects without affecting simulation accuracy or requiring model changes.

Thermal comfort analysis

You can explore how comfortable your designs feel for occupants from the early concept stage. Enscape Impact visualizes thermal comfort conditions directly within the model, enabling you to make informed decisions, create sustainable spaces, and avoid costly changes without requiring complex analysis tools.

Exportable performance reports

You can export performance reports directly from Enscape Impact. This makes it easy to share findings with clients or team members, compare design options, and keep a clear record of sustainability decisions—and copying data manually is not needed.

9. Accessible animations

Envision is a tool for quickly creating high-quality animated visualizations, preparing photorealistic visuals, and assembling large and complex scenes. It allows you to export your Enscape scenes into a fully ray-traced environment where you can assemble and create animations.

Envision 1.1 included a revolutionary traffic simulation system and smart animated vehicles. Adding this animation to your scenes shows the flow of traffic and functionality of space, providing clients with better spatial understanding.

Animation has become accessible with Envision. With the groundbreaking traffic simulation engine and smart vehicles, you benefit from real-world behavior in your renders with a few clicks.

10. Save as external model for SketchUp is back

SketchUp users can once again save components as lightweight external models. The save as external model feature converts components into Linked Models, which are lightweight stand-ins inside SketchUp that render at full fidelity in Enscape. This keeps large projects fast and organized while still rendering at high quality.

Enscape stories of 2025

New features and updates weren't the only highlights of Enscape this year. We also spoke with architects, designers, and educators who shared how Enscape played a meaningful role in their design process. From creating courts for the social-sporting phenomenon of pickleball to winning a state design award, here are the stories that were shared with us.

Designing pickleball courts

Jim Balding, founder of The ANT Group, used Enscape and Revit to cut client approval time when designing pickleball courts. Enscape was a key decision-making tool, letting stakeholders walk through, understand, iterate on designs in real time.

Designing a community-approved penthouse extension

Architect and BIM coach Marco Iannelli used Enscape and Veras in his penthouse extension project. Veras was used to speed up the ideation phase and easily showcase material and design possibilities, and Enscape brought the designs to life.

Designing a future-ready medical center

Germany-based architectural firm, Sonnentag Architektur produced designs for Mönchengladbach Medical Center. Working with a tight deadline, Veras helped the team iterate incredibly fast, while Enscape helped them overcome challenging topography.

Redesigning key areas of Vancouver, WA

First Forty Feet partnered with the city of Vancouver, Washington to redesign key areas of the city, including the new City Hall Plaza. Enscape and Veras enabled quick concept iteration and helping communicate ideas to non-technical stakeholders, from city officials to the broader community.

Winning a National Technology Student Association Conference award

Students at Lafayette High School won first place at the 2025 National Technology Student Association (TSA) Conference for their museum design. Enscape was key to the students' win, as it served as a vital teaching tool throughout the year, and the final renderings wowed the judges.

See you in 2026

2025 was a great year for Enscape. In addition to the features, Chaos Suites were introduced, which included Enscape as part of architectural design toolkits alongside Veras, Impact, and Envision. Make sure you're running the latest version of Enscape to get the most out of the new features and updates.

Do you have a story to share or a topic you'd like us to cover? Feel free to contact us at blog-editor@chaos.com. Your input is always welcome.

Thanks for reading, and see you next year! 👋