Twinmotion 2025.1 has launched with an array of new features and updates for its realtime visualisation and animation software.
Specific lighting and rendering enhancements include Projector Lights, perfect for visualising live events or installations, or for simulating effects like caustic reflections on the hull of a boat, for example.
Also new is an optional new method for rendering shadows in real-time rendering mode based on Virtual Shadow Map (VSM) technology. This method produces shadows that are more accurate than Standard shadows in Twinmotion and that are more consistent with path-traced shadows. Twinmotion’s engineers also report that it is also faster in most cases; however, it is currently slower when using precipitation. This option is currently only available on Windows.
Extra controls are added to camera animations, with a new Orbit cam rig revolving the camera around its specified central pivot within the scene, making it easy to present a 360-degree view of an object or point of focus. Users can set the start and end point and height offset.
There are further controls for speed adjustment and spatial manipulation to achieve smooth and controlled camera motion by selecting points on a camera path and adjusting their tangents.
A new ability to enable a look-at constraint for the Action cam should also allow users to precisely frame a shot on a specific moving target.
Features for automotive and transportation design in this release include new support for importing surfaces in the Alias Wire file format, letting users set tessellation parameters for extra precision; Coarse, Low, Medium, and High presets are provided. Autodesk Alias needs to be installed for this feature to be enabled.
There’s also a new Tire [sic] base material that textures and automatically creates UVs for flat cylindrical objects, such as tyres. Four tyre materials have also been added to the Library in the Materials category.
In addition, there are new controls for pearlescent scale, clear coat roughness, and imperfections – including dust, fingerprints, and scratches – to the Car paint material, together with new Coated carbon fibre materials in the Metals category, adding to the realism of vehicle visualisations and other suitable use cases.
Twinmotion 2025.1 also brings a forest of new foliage, with a new collection of 62 photorealistic growable tree species from different parts of the world, including North America, Japan, Oceania, tropical regions, and Europe. These are added to the Twinmotion Library, with each tree available in three stages of maturity, giving a total of 186 new trees.
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