Other new features in this area include a new scattering tool to apply vegetation on selected geometry, more customization options for grass, and improvements to the painting system. With Twinmotion 2020’s new Growth slider that blends and scales between the three provided tree ages, it’s easy to show how a project will look at delivery, a few years later, and then finally once everything has reached full maturity. Visualizing how new plantings will develop over time is critical for many architectural and landscape design projects, and in some cases-such as for certain state-funded project bids-is an obligatory requirement. Other vegetation assets, including all bushes, have been replaced by high-quality Quixel Megascans assets. To further enhance the realism, the texture resolution of materials has been increased, there’s a new two-sided foliage shader with sub-surface scattering that portrays the effect of light filtering through leaves, and the effects of wind are simulated at the leaf level. Each tree, which has an order of magnitude more polygons than the previous assets, comes in three different ages and four seasons. Twinmotion’s vegetation system gets some significant upgrades, starting with a new set of high-resolution tree assets from procedural organic 3D modeller Xfrog. It’s not just lighting that’s received a quality boost. On the materials front, this release adds a new X-Ray material for viewing occluded objects such as vents and plumbing, a Frosted Glass material, a light-emitting Glow material (courtesy of SSGI), and the ability to add video as a material-perfect for simulating TV screens or flickering fires.

There’s also a new automatic exposure option to provide a better viewing experience when moving from interiors to exteriors and vice versa. And the depth of field feature now closely mimics that of a real camera, for cinematic effects. New area and volumetric lighting let you simulate illumination from large surfaces like ceiling panels or windows, and add atmosphere to your scene with fog, mist, dust, or smoke. Right out of the box, you’ll notice a higher-quality look to your scenes, thanks to an entirely reworked lighting and shadowing system that features a new screen-space global illumination (SSGI) method for indirect lighting and better baseline settings to more closely match physical lights.įor exterior scenes, there’s a new physically based atmospheric sun and sky, offering more realistic skies that accurately reflect different locations, seasons, and times of day-including beautiful sunsets.

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