Twinmotion 2024.1.1 is now available.
You can download and install the latest release from the Epic Games Launcher on your computer.
If you're a new user, you can get started here.
Feel free to start a New Discussion in the Twinmotion Forum to share your thoughts on this release. If you need to report a bug regarding this release please contact Customer Support.
Twinmotion 2024.1.1 is a new version. You can open projects created and saved in previous versions. However, projects created and saved in 2024.1.1 will not open in previous versions.
Recommended Configuration to run Twinmotion 2024.1.1
For complete details on the recommended hardware and software specifications for Twinmotion, please refer to Hardware and Software Specifications.
What’s New in 2024.1.1
Wind for Fabric Material
Added a Wind parameter in the Fabric material that simulates wind animation on draped fabric such as curtains.
Improved Wind for Foliage Material
Improved the animation of the wind on the Foliage material by adding a Sway parameter in the Properties panel for trees and bushes.
Sway is disabled if the Wind parameter is disabled.
All vegetation that uses the Foliage material benefits from this improvement, including Twinmotion vegetation and Quixel Megascans 3D plants.
Randomize UV
We added a Randomize UV parameter on selected materials which randomizes the UV tiling to break the repetition of a material and give it a more natural aspect. We recommend using it for organic ground materials such as soil, grass, and pebbles.
Camera Roll Adjustment for Images
We have added a camera roll feature in the Properties panel to enhance media images. This feature is already present for media sequence keyframes. With this feature, you can precisely manipulate the camera's perspective by rotating the local X-axis. Note that when a roll angle is applied to an image, navigating in the Viewport resets the camera horizontally.
Precise Editing in Sequences
We have added usability enhancements for creating sequences. The following new features provide more direct control and precise editing abilities:
You can now snap animation tracks and camera parts.
Snapping is supported only for tracks and parts that are visible in the dock.
Added a handle on parts to modify part duration.
Added a threshold to control the horizontal movement of animation tracks.
New shortcuts:
To zoom the timeline, press the Ctrl key and rotate the wheel button forward or backward.
To scroll along the timeline, press the Shift key and rotate the wheel button forward or backward.
Enhanced Match Sun to HDRI Feature
We now have rendering parity between the Standard (raster) and Path tracer rendering modes when an HDRI environment is used. When Match sun to HDRI (formerly named Lock sun to HDRI) is enabled, sun intensity, color and size are now extracted from the HDRI to set up the sun parameters.
Limitations
Sun settings are applied only on newly added HDRIs or newly downloaded HDRIs from the Twinmotion Library.
Designed to work with daytime HDRIs. Enabling this feature on other HDRIs (such as night or studio HDRIs) may lead to unreliable sun settings.
Performance Statistics
The Statistics panel has been improved with additional information and can now be docked on the right side of the Library, providing more workspace in the panel.
New Trees in the Twinmotion Library
A collection of 62 photorealistic growable tree species has been added to the Twinmotion Cloud Library. These trees are from different parts of the world, including: North America (11 species), Japan (9 species), Oceania (14 species), tropical regions (11 species), and Europe (17 species). Each tree comes in three versions (young, adult, and old), bringing the total number of unique trees to 186. These trees are also available in the Unreal Engine Marketplace in the Trees Megapack 1 collection.
Limitation
New trees are not supported in projects exported to Twinmotion Cloud until further notice.
Bugs Fixed in 2024.1.1
Animation
TM-15961 - Fixed an issue where the vertical organization of sequences was not kept on reopening.
TM-15697 - Fixed an issue where the Start delay precision was lost when saving and reopening a scene.
TM-15758 - Fixed a crash when deleting all the keyframes of a sequence.
TM-15925 - Fixed an issue where the thumbnails of animation tracks were sometimes not displayed until they were reordered.
TM-16363 - Fixed an issue where the camera path was sometimes visible in the viewport, even when not in Media mode.
TM-14800 - Fixed an issue where rigs in sequences appeared in phasings.
TM-15791 - Fixed an issue where the icons on sequences were missing when selecting media for Presentations.
TM-15773 - Fixed an issue where pressing the spacebar re-triggered the last triggered button or action in sequences.
TM-16442 - Fixed an issue with the default tangent method for interchange imports.
Content and Library
TM-15877 - Fixed an issue with broken UVs on certain animated characters.
TM-16060 - Fixed an issue with the reflection cubemap for material thumbnail preview taking more memory than required.
Core
TM-15573 - Fixed a crash that occurred when trying to save Twinmotion files when Lumen was enabled.
TM-16190 - Fixed an issue where increased VRAM consumption when loading certain Twinmotion files was leading to Out of Memory crashes.
TM-15450 - Fixed an issue where searching the Library sometimes made the application hang.
Import and Interoperability
TM-15858 - Fixed an issue with wrong mesh normals on imported C4D files.
Render and Export
TM-16051 - Fixed an issue in Lumen where mesh cards were not created for certain objects leading to noticeable render differences between 2023.2 and 2024.1.
TM-15544 - Fixed an issue where the Clayrender effect was not applied on Posed humans.
Tools
TM-15886 - Fixed a random crash that occurred when dragging a material into the viewport.
TM-15743 - Fixed an issue with the Placing tools where spline points could not be selected or transformed in the orthographic Top view.
TM-15721 - Fixed an issue where the Visual helpers checkbox was not working.
TM-15805 - Fixed a crash when loading a cyclorama with other assets linked to it.
TM-15869 - Fixed an issue where Xbox controllers were not being detected.
Known Bugs and Limitations Affecting 2024.1.1
Animation
TM-16082 - Random crash occurs when exiting Media mode or exporting media.
TM-16069 - When Animated humans are rotated, their Pixels size changes in the XYZ panel.
TM-16386 - The camera does not follow the correct path between keyframes.
Content and Library
TM-16387 - The props of Animated characters appear to float near them.
Workaround: Select all instances of the affected character and in the Scenegraph use the Replace object command to replace them with a new version of the same character.
Core
TM-16035 - Crash when deleting an object from grouped objects and modifying the rest of them.
TM-16204 - In certain circumstances, Fullscreen mode cannot be exited using the Fullscreen mode icon in the Top bar of the Twinmotion user interface.
Workaround: Pressing the Windows logo key with the Left or Right Arrow key may resolve the issue.
TM-16482 - Twinmotion processes may not fully close on MacOS after exiting the program.
Workaround: Force Quit the application.
Import and Interoperability
TM-16073 - Material RGB values are incorrect on certain materials in SketchUp files imported with Datasmith.
Workaround: Import the SKP file directly as geometry.
TM-16144 - Incorrect UVs in FBX files imported using the Collapse by material option.
Workaround: Apply a texture to the model prior to importing it into Twinmotion or import the model using the Keep hierarchy or Collapse all modes.
TM-16070 - The path to the default Direct Link textures folder in the Preferences panel is missing.
Workaround: Set the path to C:\Users\[Username]\Documents\Twinmotion2024.1\DirectLinkTextures.
TM-16447 - Performance issue with SketchUp Pro files that have lots of components and groups.
Workaround: Explode all components and groups or import the file using the Collapse by material option.
TM-16459 - After applying a different UV mapping to any material on an imported model, when refreshing the import the same UV mapping is applied to all the materials on the same imported model.
TM-16490 - Painted vegetation is lost on reimported Sketchup geometry.
Workaround: Import using Datasmith format.
Rendering and Export
TM-16395 - Artifacts on certain imported geometries rendered with the Path tracer.
TM-16488 - The Auto-exposure setting is not applied correctly in certain scenes rendered in Path tracer mode.
Workaround: Disable the Auto-exposure setting.
TM-16707 - Excessive Sunlight intensity in the Viewport on Intel-based Macs.
Workaround: Upgrade to macOS Sonoma 14.6.1.
Tools
TM-16045 - Doors explode into components when applying a User library material created in 2022.2.
TM-16531 - Using the same value, the speed of the camera is different between raster and Path tracer.