Twinmotion includes a collection of visualization templates in the Home panel that contain ready-made starting scenes with predefined lighting, settings, and props. Import your 3D model into a template, and accelerate the visualization process by instantly seeing what your project looks like in various outdoor and indoor environments. All the templates are designed to render well in both Real time and Path tracer rendering modes.
To view a description for a template, hover over the title of the template in the Home panel.
About the Templates
The premade environments in the templates are provided in the form of images in the Media dock. Certain templates also offer premade turntable videos where you can place your product and create a 360° video of it. These videos can be accessed under Video in the Media dock. You can also use the images and videos in the templates as a starting point to create your own images, videos, panoramas, Panorama Sets, and Presentations.
The templates are categorized by industry type—Architecture, Product, and Transportation— and further subdivided into the types of visuals you want to create: Sky Shot, Lookdev, Packshot, Hero Shot, or Environmental Shot.
We continuously update and improve the current templates and the categories and collection of templates will expand over time.
Industries
Architecture
We designed the templates in the Architecture category to provide a quick way to render archviz images and videos of your buildings and structures in distinctive outdoor environmental setups.
Product
The templates in the Product category contain several visual setups and props ideal for quickly creating high-quality product visualization (prodviz) images and videos of your projects and products.
Turntable videos in the Worktable template.
Transportation
The Transportation templates are designed to highlight vehicles from various angles in high-quality environments; just replace the placeholder car with your own vehicle.
Type of Visuals
Sky Shots
Ideal for rendering your architecture visualization (archviz) projects, this category provides 24 beautiful sky environments based on 8K High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI) Skylights embedded in the scene.
Lookdev
Lookdev (or Look Development) is a process where you experiment with colors and materials under various lighting conditions to define the final look and feel of an asset.
Packshot
Packshot images are used to display products in e-commerce websites and catalogs. They are often set against a white background and you can use them to show closeups and various angles of products.
Hero Shots
Hero Shots are used to create marketing content, such as landing pages, banners, and advertising campaigns. Products are typically displayed in a studio environment, and the ambience and mood is created using lighting and props.
Environmental Shots
Environmental Shot templates provide beautifully illuminated indoor and outdoor environments in which to place your products.
Accessing the Templates
You can view and access the templates by clicking the Templates tab in the Home panel that appears when you launch Twinmotion.
You can also access the Home panel within Twinmotion by clicking the Home panel icon or going to File > Show Home panel. For more information about the Home panel, refer to The Home Panel.
By default, the templates are stored on a dedicated server on the cloud. To open a template for the first time, you must be connected to the Internet and download it. To download templates, click the Download icon situated at the top right of the template preview in the Home panel.
By default, templates are downloaded in the following location:
Windows:
C:\Users\[username]\Documents\Twinmotion[version]\TemplatesCloudLibrary\CloudLibraryname]MacOS:
HD:Users:[username]:Documents:Twinmotion[version]:TemplatesCloudLibrary\CloudLibraryname]
If you want to save them somewhere else, you can change this location in the Twinmotion Preferences panel, in the Settings tab, under Custom paths.
When an update for a template is available, an Update icon appears on the template. Click the icon to automatically update the template.
Working with the Templates
Once a template is downloaded, an Open button appears on the template preview. Click anywhere on the preview to open the template.
The various setups in each template are provided in the form of images and videos. To access them, go to the Media dock and select Image or Video.
Once you have opened a template, select any of the premade images or videos in the Media dock and import your 3D model into the scene to start experimenting with the different setups and props.
The premade setups and props can be accessed in the Scene graph panel.
You can use the images and videos in the templates as is, but you can also change their visual settings such as lighting, location, weather, and camera angles. For information on the visual settings you can modify in media, refer to Ambience Settings.
You can also duplicate the images and videos and use this as a basis to create your own media based on the settings in the templates. For information on how to duplicate images and videos and how to work with media in Twinmotion, refer to Working with Media.