enscape on Mac

[tdd]

i just installed enscape into vectorworks fundamental on my Mac. the toolsets have duplicated menu boxes that i cannot close. What is the issue? I have restarted a few times

[_James]

I've had the same issue.

[JuanP]

@tdd Reporting your issue to our Q&A team - Thanks

[tdd]

I shutdown my mac for the night and the duplicated toolkits are no longer there this morning. Not sure what happened, but so far all good

 

[tdd]

Just now, tdd said:

I shutdown my mac for the night and the duplicated toolkits are no longer there this morning. Not sure what happened, but so far all good

 

But would be good to find out why, if it happens again, thanks Juan!

[frv]

This weekend tried it on my MacBook Air m1. 16Gb.

Actually was easy to use and the results were ok as well. Lots of crashes though and had some weird alterations on my 3D model.

Plus

•easy to use, good documentation and help

•results are ok and easy to finetune

•sky is great, real clouds and no need for hdri's

•some AI here and there going on, for example grass is generated just by naming a material grass, wild grass or tall grass.. At nighttime the placed artificial lights switch on.

Minus

•Opening files and starting VW is really a lot slower since every time Enscape has to load as well. Since Enscape crashes a lot this is frustrating.

•Placing/scattering assets is (very, very )slow compared to dedicated apps like C4D, Lumion, Twinmotion and so on.

•Scattering assets inside Vectorworks is not really there compared to dedicated apps like C4D, Lumina and so on. Larger projects with lots of vegetation are not possible because of this in my view

•Expensive for the kind of render you get

•Me working occasionally on my laptop at home is not an option without paying much more. Enscape limits installs on one system with the most affordable subscription.

 

I work with VW models in C4D and Corona render. Exports to C4D takes less than seconds. Placing/scattering assets and setting up a scene for render can be done as quick or far quicker compared to Enscape. The quality renders, assets and materials are far better for Coronarender.  Looking at Enscape pricing I could not afford to have it aside C4D/Corona as well. 

 

Francois

 

 

Edited November 6, 2023 by frv