Chaos this week has launched the highly anticipated Chaos Envision, a new real-time storytelling digital software for AEC industry professionals. The new program helps architects and designers create compelling 3D models and immersive environments with cinematic quality.
Chaos Envision
Envision allows architects to explore complex 3D scenes ingesting CAD files and assembling them into visual stories.
The new Chaos Envision.
“Envision offers new alternatives for architects that have had to find workarounds to avoid compromising on quality, speed and flexibility in their presentations,” said Petr Mitev, vice president of solutions for designers at Chaos. “Now, anyone can produce high-fidelity visuals much earlier in the process, tapping V-Ray-like photorealism to resolve internal questions and get more stakeholders on board.”
Easy Animation
Long a tough challenges for most AEC professions, the new Envision offers users the easiest pathway to creating sophisticated cinematic quality animations. Be leveraging the Chaos Anima engine, architects can drag and drop ultra-realistic people and crowds into their scenes complete with AI-based behavior that simulates real life occupants of environments. Paths can be applied to both people and other objects including cameras.
The software also supports variation-based animation. This means sun studies are easy to setup and animate. This can also include construction phasing and users can set up design option iteration animations.
No Bottlenecks
A primary benefit of Envision is how easy Chaos says it is to bring in multiple 3D components into a single scene. This includes site models, building and BIM models and other types of 3D objects.
The software accepts content from any application that can host Enscape or V-Ray and can import common industry formats. Lighting, materials and other assets applied in the original host design applications carry over as-is into Enscape.
Enscape brings true real-time, ray-traced realism to projects with physically accuarate lighting, reflections, shadows, and global illumination.
“I was fortunate to be one of the first to try Chaos Envision and found it extremely user-friendly and easy to learn,” said David Tomic, an award-winning architect and AEC influencer. “What stands out to me is being able to import different rendering software files into Envision and edit them there without having to go back to the original programs, all without any lag.”
Pricing and Availability
Chaos Envision is available now as a standalone product, and as part of Chaos suites, integrated with Enscape. Go here for pricing information. Info on new Chaos suites can be found here.
