The images and panoramas that you create in Twinmotion can be exported locally to your computer. Before exporting them, you can adjust various export settings.
Images and panoramas can also be embedded into Local or Cloud Presentations, and panoramas can be embedded into Panorama Sets on Twinmotion Cloud. For more information, refer to Sharing and Collaborating.
Global and Individual Export Settings
Some of the settings you choose for exporting images and panoramas are global and are applied to all images or panoramas, but you can also choose individual export settings for each image or panorama.
Global Export Settings
To access the global export settings, click Image or Panorama in the Export panel.
The following table describes the global export settings for images and panoramas.
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
Format | Sets the file format of exported images or panoramas. By default, images and panoramas are saved in PNG. PNG
JPG
EXR
Color gradients (in Ambience > FX > Color grading) are not applied to exported EXR files. However, Contrast and Saturation levels in this setting will be applied. Options: PNG, JPG, EXR |
Motion blur | Enables or disables Motion blur on exported images and panoramas. When enabled, motion blur is visible on animated objects, characters and vehicles. By default, this setting is disabled. Options: On, Off |
Render layers | Shows the render layers you can select to export. A blue check mark on the render layer button indicates the render layer is selected. For more information about render layers, see the Render Layers documentation. |
Refinement (for images only) | Enables or disables Refinement on exported images, and sets the refinement quality. When Refinement is disabled, the only area of the scene that is used to create reflections is the area that is visible in the Viewport. When Refinement is enabled, the range of the area that affects reflections is increased beyond the Viewport, which can result in more realistic looking reflections. The higher the quality of the refinement setting, the larger the area of the scene that will be used. By default, this setting is disabled. Options: Off, Low, Medium, High Enabling Refinement on images is GPU-intensive and may result in the unexpected closing of Twinmotion. |
3D Mode | Enables or disables 3D Mode (stereoscopic view) on exported images and panoramas. For available image export resolutions, refer to the Output size setting. For available panorama export resolutions, refer to the 360 Resol. setting. By default, this setting is disabled. Options: On, Off |
360 Resol. (for panoramas only) | Sets the resolution of exported panoramas. A higher value increases the size of panoramas, and increases the time it takes for Twinmotion to export the panoramas. Panoramas can be exported in Standard or in 3D mode. The size of exported panoramas differs depending on the resolution and mode that is selected. By default, the resolution for panoramas is set to 4K. Options: 2K, 4K, 6K, 8K, 16K |
Individual Export Settings
To access the individual export settings, click the image or panorama in the Media dock. A tab named Image or Pano that contains the settings is added to the Ambience panel.
The following table describes the individual export settings for images and panoramas.
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
Roll angle (for images only) | With this feature, you can apply a roll angle to images by rotating the camera's perspective in local space on the X-axis. Options: -180.00° to 180.00° The image below shows a -20.00° roll angle applied to an image.  Click image to expand. When a roll angle is applied to an image, navigating in the scene resets the roll angle to 0.00. |
Snapshot time | If your image or panorama contains an imported animated file, with this slider you can preview the animation and select the exact point in the animation you want to show in the image or panorama. The value is in seconds, equal to the number of seconds in the animation. |
Output size (for images only) | Sets the output size (resolution) and aspect ratio for locally exported images and images displayed in Local or Cloud Presentations. Images can be exported in Standard or in 3D mode. The size of exported images differs depending on the resolution and mode that is selected. If Filmback is enabled in the Ambience panel (Camera > Filmback), the aspect ratio of images is defined by the filmback preset you select. You can change the width but the height option is disabled to ensure that it remains proportional to the width and respects the aspect ratio. For more information about the Filmback option, refer to Filmback in Ambience Settings. By default, the resolution for images is set to 2K. Options: 2K Full HD (1920 x 1080), 4K UHD (3840 x 2160), 8K (7680 x 4320), 16K (15360 x 8640), Custom (up to 61440 x 61440) To view images using custom output sizes in a presentation, enable Media framing in the export settings of the presentation when creating it. This activates the Safe Frame option in the Preferences panel of the presentation, letting viewers decide whether or not to view images using their custom aspect ratios. |
Tiled rendering (for images only) | When Tiled rendering is enabled, you can export and render images at very high resolutions without being restricted by the memory limits of your computer’s Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). When this option is enabled, images can be exported at a maximum custom resolution of 64K (up to 61440 x 61440 pixels). If the custom output size of an image is set to a resolution higher than 8K (7680 × 4320), we recommend enabling this option to avoid GPU memory limits. Export times can increase when enabling this option. Limitations: Enabling Tiled rendering can affect the quality of the following visual settings in rendered images: Screen Space Reflections (SSR), Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO), Global Illumination (GI), Lens flare, Depth of Field (DoF), and Bloom. Options: On, Off |
View set | Applies a View set to the image or panorama. |