KEY NEW FEATURES

Path Tracer

Create final-pixel imagery comparable to offline renderings, including compromise-free global illumination, physically correct refractions, super-sampled anti-aliasing, and much more, with the new Path Tracer.
This DXR-accelerated*, physically accurate progressive rendering mode can be easily enabled in the viewport with a single button push, or used to output stunning still images and panoramas, right from Twinmotion, in minutes. It can also be used to render orthographic plan views with shadows.

* The Path Tracer requires Windows DirectX 12 and a GPU that supports DXR real-time ray tracing. See this article for full requirements.

Twinmotion Cloud Early Access for all!

Share your projects with any stakeholder anywhere in the world! With just a computer, tablet, or smartphone and a web browser, users can view and interact with a presentation or panorama running on a high-end GPU in the cloud. With this release, this feature is now available to all users as part of the Early Access program, including educational licensees and trialists. In addition, new Panorama Sets enable you to curate specific points of view for a review, rather than providing a fully navigable scene. Its also now easier to share links and update presentations.

Thousands of new assets

Weve added two more categories from Quixel Megascans, bringing over 200 new 3D plant species, each with multiple variants, and over 2,000 new decals to Twinmotion. Weve also added the ability to select which variants from each 3D plant set are used.

In addition, there are nearly 150 new interior and exterior furniture assets.

Meanwhile, its now possible to use custom Reflectivity, Glow, Bump, and Metalness textures with both standard decals
and the new Quixel Decals library.

HDRI Skydome and Skies library

Used in conjunction with the Path Tracer, the new Skydome feature enables you to create more realistic skies and lighting for convincing exterior shots. Weve provided an extensive library of 285 skies to select from, or you can use your own custom HDRI texture.

Datasmith multi-sync support

Simultaneously synchronize files from multiple CAD tools into the same Twinmotion scene via Datasmith. For example, you might have a landscape in Rhino and buildings in Revit; now, you can continue to edit each while viewing the combined result in Twinmotion.

LiDAR point cloud import

Weve added the ability to load and display laser-scanned data from popular formats, typically acquired in the context of architectural or industrial applications with scanners such as Leica or Trimble. This enables you to view a project in the context of existing landscape and/or structures.

3Dconnexion SpaceMouse support

Weve added support for 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse devices, which offer fluid and efficient 3D navigation, easy access to frequently used commands, and seamless switching between different 3D applications.

Full-screen mode editing

Its now possible to perform various editing actions such as transforming, copying, pasting, and deleting objects while in full-screen mode, enabling you to make changes to a scene while remaining in an immersive environment.

Center pivot & Local axis

Weve added the ability to edit pivots of objects and to perform actions in local space, enabling you to more finely control the translation, rotation, and scaling applied to your objects.

Twinmotion 2023.1 sports a fresh new UI that is not only more pleasing to the eye, but also increases your productivity by bringing previously buried functionality to the surface and reducing the number of clicks it takes to access controls.

Key Features 2023.1

Industry templates
New templates targeted at various industries offer a range of interior and exterior environments to show off your design. These provide a fast and easy starting point for your visualization, including multiple camera views; simply swap in your asset for the one in the template, and you're ready to export your media.
 
Procedural cycloramas
We've added several new procedural cyclorama assets to simulate curved backdrops used in product shots. The width, depth, and height can be adjusted for each asset, as well as the radius of the curves, so you can quickly create the ideal background to match the scale and proportions of your product.
 
Path Tracer enhancementsIn this release, enhancements to the Path Tracer include support for decals (including hundreds of high-quality Quixel Megascans) and volumetric fog, as well as improved sky rendering. In addition, transparent objects now render correctly with depth of field.
 
Product visualization materials
We've added 78 new materials with 4K textures making them suitable for close-up camera views to the Fabric, Leather, Plastic, and Metal categories, hosted on the cloud. While originally created for product visualization (they are tagged "prodviz" to make them easy to find), these materials will be useful across a wide range of industries.
 
Expanded Glass material library
Enhancements to the Glass base materials now enable you to simulate a wide range of materials such as glass that casts colored shadows when path traced, together with polychromatic, sandblasted, and frosted glass. Twenty-two new materials have been added to the Glass material library as a result.
 
Car Paint material library
Weve added a new material type aimed at automotive visualization, with dedicated parameters and features for handling effects specific to car paint, such as Flakes and Orange Peel, enabling you to simulate a wide range of finishes including chameleon and pearlescent paint. There are 34 new materials in this category.
 
New ready-posed humans and standard assets
Since 2022.2, we've added over 300 new ready-posed humans in categories such as Summer, Business, Construction, Travel, and University, and nearly a thousand standard assets in Backyard, Sport Equipment, Storage, Decoration, Bathroom, Office, and Healthcare categories.
 
Improved base materials
Improvements to base materials include the ability to use either a separate texture or an embedded alpha channel as an Opacity map; new Color Correction controls on input textures; the availability of the X-ray feature on every base material; and significantly better quality Parallax Offset Mapping, without impacting performance.
 
Built-in Twinmotion Datasmith file exporter
In this release, we're replacing the Twinmotion Datasmith Importer Plugin with a built-in Twinmotion Datasmith file exporter and new, much smaller Datasmith Twinmotion Content for Unreal Engine Plugin, improving download speeds, minimizing UE project sizes, and helping ensure materials are properly applied to assets that are from the cloud.
 
Optimized Twinmotion file format
The Twinmotion file format has been modified in a number of ways to improve file size, scene saving/loading times, and global performance, including the deduplication of identical meshes and textures; multithreaded compression on scene saving; and the compression and embedding of HDRI files in Twinmotion files.
 
Improved viewport display
Twinmotion now uses Temporal Super Resolution (TSR) to upsample the viewport display, resulting in higher-quality viewport rendering than in previous versions with no impact on performance.