Twinmotion 2020

Twinmotion 2020: The simplest, fastest and most innovative cross-platform visualisation for 3D & VR

Twinmotion 2020 has been developed for architectural, construction, urban planning and landscaping professionals, regardless of the size and complexity of their project, their equipment, their computer skills or their modeller. Powered by award-winning Unreal Engine.

Twinmotion 2020.1 is now available! It’s packed with new features that help turn your CAD and BIM models into even more convincing visualizations and immersive experiences in just a few clicks, and provide new options for presentation and review.

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Twinmotion 2020 New Features

Enhanced lighting and rendering
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.

For 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.

New area and volumetric lighting

New Materials
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.

Enhanced vegetation system

Higher-fidelity humans
Not to be outdone, Twinmotion’s built-in library of 3D human characters has been replaced with new high-quality photo-scanned assets, enhancing the credibility and ambience of your scene. There are 62 mocap-animated characters, each with five changes of clothing, and a further 82 ready-posed characters, so there’s plenty of variety. All characters are sourced from AXYZ design, who specialize in providing 3D people for archviz.

One-click synchronization with Rhino

Enhanced lighting and rendering

New area and volumetric lighting
Simulate illumination from large surfaces like ceiling panels or windows, and add atmosphere to your scene with fog, mist, dust, or smoke. And the depth of field feature now closely mimics that of a real camera, for cinematic effects. There’s also a new automatic exposure option to provide a better viewing experience when moving from interiors to exteriors and vice versa.

New Materials

Enhanced vegetation system
It’s not just lighting that’s received a quality boost. Twinmotion’s vegetation system gets some significant upgrades, starting with a new set of high-resolution tree assets from procedural organic 3D modeller Xfrog. Each tree, which has an order of magnitude more polygons than the previous assets, comes in three different ages and four seasons. 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

Higher-fidelity humans

One-click synchronization with Rhino
Twinmotion 2020 sees Rhino added to its list of packages supported by Direct Link, joining SketchUp Pro, Revit, ARCHICAD, and RIKCAD. This enables you to synchronize your Rhino and Grasshopper data into Twinmotion with a single click while retaining organization and hierarchy and automatically substituting native materials with Twinmotion PBR materials. Support has also been updated for SketchUp Pro 2020.

Twinmotion 2020 Release Trailer

Twinmotion videos and tutorials on our YouTube Channel "Innovative vectorworks BIM"

Twinmotion Showcase and Tutorial

Vectorworks / Twinmotion Tutorial for a Contemporary Kitchen Project

Advanced Vectorworks & Twinmotion 2018 Tutorial

Vectorworks & Twinmotion- Tutorial

System requirements:

Mac Recommended configurations
Macbook Pro, iMac, Mac Pro (from 2016)Operating system: MacOS Sierra / 64 bits
Processor: Intel Core i7
Memory (RAM): 16 GB Graphic card: 8 GB – compatible with Metal 1.2 Disk space: 10 GB

WindowsOperating system: Windows 10 / 64 bits
Processor: Intel Core i7 or equivalent
Memory (RAM): 16 GB Graphic card: 8 GB – compatible with DirectX 11 Disk space: 5 GB

Minimum configurations
Mac (from 2013)Operating system: MacOS 10.12 / 64 bits or later
Processor: Intel Core i5
Memory (RAM) : 8 Go Graphic card: 4 GB – compatible with Metal 1.2 Disk space: 10 GB

WindowsOperating system: Windows 7 / 64 bits
Processor: Intel Core i5 or equivalent
Memory (RAM) : 8 GB Graphic card: 4 GB – compatible with DirectX 11 Disk space: 5 GB

Twinmotion Compatibility

Twinmotion 2019 works with any CAD/BIM modelling software