Twinmotion 2026.2 Preview Release Notes

Twinmotion 2026.2 Preview 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.  

Recommended Configuration to Run Twinmotion 2026.2

For complete details on the recommended hardware and software specifications for the latest official release of Twinmotion, please refer to Hardware and Software Specifications.       

What’s New in 2026.2 Preview

Night and Moon Improvements

We overhauled the night lighting system to deliver more realistic, physically grounded results. You can now use the Twinmotion Dynamic sky in Realistic mode. You can still use the legacy lighting system, but in Realistic mode you can create realistic nighttime scenes with the new Night sky settings that accurately display the true position of the moon and nighttime lighting. 

In Realistic mode, the moonlight, skyglow, and atmospheric response now behave naturally, and exposure adapts better in low light. Transitions between day and night are smooth and consistent, so your time-lapse and lighting workflows just work.

Improvements

• Exposure during the transition between day and night

• Real position of the moon and stars

• Moon phases

• Milky way

• Air traffic

For more information, see the Night sky section in the Ambience Settings documentation.

Aurora Borealis

Bring polar night scenes to life by enabling the new Aurora borealis night sky feature and shaping it to suit your vision. With intuitive settings for animation, intensity, and color, you can craft anything from soft, atmospheric glows to striking, cinematic skies.

The Aurora borealis setting is located in the Ambience panel in the Env tab, under Dynamic sky > Realistic > Night sky.

For more information, see the Night sky section in the Ambience Settings documentation.  

MegaLights

MegaLights has been seamlessly integrated into Twinmotion as a new Shadows mode in the Render settings. MegaLights is a new way to handle shadows in the Standard and Lumen rendering modes, and gives you the freedom to use a high number of shadow-casting lights in your scenes without compromising performance. 

The MegaLights feature depends on hardware ray tracing, and is compatible with all NVIDIA RTX graphics cards, and Apple Silicon Mac M3 or higher.

For more information, see MegaLights.

Cryptomattes

Twinmotion now provides cryptomatte export in the EXR file format for users with complex scenes who need to isolate and retouch individual assets in post-production. You can base the cryptomatte files on the following:

• Object ID

• Material ID

• Container ID

• Mesh section ID

• Render layer ID

Enabling the High precision option feathers and reduces any jagged edges on the objects in exported images and image sequences.

For more information, see Cryptomattes.

Interchange Import for the GLTF, GLB, and SKP File Formats

We are continuing the transition to the Interchange importing pipeline by expanding support to the GLB, GLTF, and SKP file formats, and fully retiring the legacy importer. 

Interchange now supports the following file formats:

• FBX

• OBJ

• GLTF/GLB

• SKP

All supported file formats benefit from improved control over import fidelity and more reliable reimport behavior, especially for objects that have undergone scene overrides. The following Interchange features are now available across all supported formats:

• Reset transform on selected

• Reset material on selected

• Reimport deleted objects

The legacy import pipeline has now been fully removed from Twinmotion:

• The Use legacy importer option in the Preferences panel is no longer available.

• All supported file imports now exclusively use the Interchange pipeline.

Important

• Assets that were originally imported using the legacy importer cannot be reimported.

• In the Import dock, the Refresh icon and the reimport commands are not available for assets that were imported with the legacy importer.

• It is not possible to switch or upgrade a legacy-imported item to the Interchange pipeline.

To update assets that you originally imported with the legacy import pipeline, you must import them again using the current Interchange pipeline.

With the removal of the legacy import pipeline, the following file formats are no longer supported:

• 3DS

• C4D

• DAE

• DXF

• STL

Scalers Animator Tool

We have added a new type of Animator tool, Scalers, to the Tools > Animators category in the Twinmotion Library. 

Scalers use procedural scaling to add richer and more expressive motion to scenes, by growing, shrinking, or pulsing objects dynamically over time.

For more information, see Scaler Tool.

Enhanced Custom Paths

The Custom path tool has been redesigned to work more directly with the scene.

You can now do the following:

• Assign scene objects directly to custom paths, without needing to convert them into library assets.

• Animate multiple objects on the same custom path.

• Use animated objects on custom paths, such as imported animated files, or Twinmotion animators.

• Choose between different placement options to control how objects are distributed along the path.

For more information, see Custom Paths.

3DConnexion Mac Support

Twinmotion now supports the 3DConnexion SpaceMouse on macOS. This integration addresses the request from many Mac users for the same navigation experience currently available to users of Twinmotion on PC.

New Segmented Controls for Enhanced Clarity

We have introduced segmented controls in the Properties panel to bring more clarity to the hierarchy of the items in the panel. Top-level settings with two or more distinct modes or options are now presented as segmented controls. This ensures that you can see at a glance which primary choices are related to the nested settings below. 

Segmented controls are a cleaner, faster way to manage complex scene configurations. The Properties panel dynamically adapts to the items you select in the scene, so that you only see the controls that are relevant to your current mode.

Support for Geodata Entries

In the search bar for the Location map in the Ambience panel (Env tab > Sun), you can now enter latitude and longitude geographical coordinates in the following three formats:

• Decimal Degrees (DD)

• Degrees and Decimal Minutes (DDM)

• Degrees, Minutes, and Seconds (DMS)

Bugs Fixed in 2026.2 Preview

Content and Library

TM-23637 - Fixed an issue where downloaded Megascans assets could not be accessed while working offline.

TM-17229 - Fixed an issue in the Lakehouse Retreat scene where opening the FX tab in the Ambience panel would automatically enable a filter.

Core

TM-23424 - Fixed an issue where the option to open the AutoBackups folder from Preferences did not work as expected.

Import and Interoperability

TM-23358 - Fixed an issue where some imported SketchUp components had incorrect transforms.

TM-23399 - Fixed an issue where objects were missing and transforms were incorrect after reimporting a file into a loaded Twinmotion project.

TM-23684 - Fixed an issue where material conflict options do not work as expected.

TM-23527 - Fixed an issue where Rhino Direct Link updates would not correctly synchronize light cone angle changes in Twinmotion.

TM-22442 - Fixed an issue where SketchUp instances could be lost during reimport while their pivots remained in the scene.

TM-22337 - Fixed an issue where Metallic and Roughness maps were missing on imported .glb and .gltf files in Twinmotion.

TM-22257 - Fixed an issue where reimporting .glb file instances could create duplicate phantom meshes.

TM-22215 - Fixed an issue where Twinmotion position overrides could be lost after reimporting a .glb file with a new version.

TM-22194 - Fixed an issue where Datasmith light parameter updates from Archicad were not correctly synchronized during Sync and Auto Sync.

TM-22060 - Fixed an issue where the hierarchy of SketchUp files was not correctly updated after reimport.

TM-22059 - Fixed an issue where .glb files could display an incorrect hierarchy and missing objects after reimport.

TM-21961 - Fixed an issue where SketchUp files were always imported with two-sided geometry enabled.

TM-21937 - Fixed an issue where meshes could be missing after reimporting SketchUp files.

TM-21645 - Fixed an issue where SketchUp material textures were not updating correctly when using Direct Link in Twinmotion.

TM-21548 - Fixed an issue where SketchUp glass materials using textures in the base color channel were incorrectly recognized as solid materials in Twinmotion.

TM-19635 - Fixed an issue where cubic mapping could be incorrectly applied to SketchUp objects after reimport.

TM-19567 - Fixed an issue where mirrored SketchUp groups could display with the default material when imported using the Keep hierarchy option.

TM-19471 - Fixed an issue where bump maps from Rhino were not imported correctly.

TM-19220 - Fixed an issue where some objects could be imported with incorrect positions when using the Keep hierarchy collapse mode.

TM-19188 - Fixed an issue where the base color of glass materials was not correctly recognized in imported SketchUp files.

TM-19005 - Fixed an issue where materials on certain groups could appear black in Path tracer when importing SketchUp files using the Keep hierarchy option.

TM-18917 - Fixed an issue where imported SketchUp files could display broken or incomplete geometry in 2025.1.

TM-18242 - Fixed an issue where light settings were not updated correctly after reimport.

TM-16756 - Fixed an issue where mesh import instances could be lost after reimport.

TM-16459 - Fixed an issue where refreshing imported SketchUp models after changing the UV mapping mode could incorrectly apply the new UV mapping mode to all UV maps on the imported model.

Presenter and Cloud Presenter

TM-23681 - Fixed an issue where Collision Animators configured with the “Once” loop mode would not play correctly in Cloud Presentations.

TM-19225 - Fixed an issue where videos on LED walls would not play in Local Presentations on macOS.

TM-15501 - Fixed an issue where Lumen thumbnails in Cloud Presentations could appear with low image quality.

TM-23761 - Fixed an issue where vegetation in legacy Cloud presentations was not loading in the 2026.1 Cloud presenter.

Rendering

TM-23488 - Fixed an issue where the viewport camera reset to coordinates (0, 0, 0) after exiting Media mode.

TM-23435 - Fixed an issue where individual export settings did not update when switching between media.

TM-23537 - Fixed an issue where the speed of volumetric clouds was affected by the 3D grass material.

TM-20491 - Fixed an issue where the Clay render mode could break chroma key rendering on LED Walls.

TM-17992 - Fixed an issue where moving containers containing PCGs would not move the PCGs inside them.

Tools

TM-23480 - Fixed an issue where using Focus on Notes moved the camera away from the intended position.

TM-23304 - Fixed an issue where, after parenting an asset to a tree, the child asset could no longer be selected.

TM-23404 - Fixed an issue where an Animator track could become stuck in a sequence when fully shortened from the left side.

TM-23455 - Fixed an issue where imported decals could appear at an incorrect scale.

TM-22938 - Fixed an issue where no warning message appeared when dragging content that had not been downloaded into object placement placeholders.

TM-22907 - Fixed an issue where performing multiple Undo operations while working with Animators could produce unexpected results.

TM-23641 - Fixed an issue where entering a negative value for a path point’s rotation could cause Twinmotion to crash.

TM-23454 - Fixed an issue where the Rotator's pivot would snap to the child’s center when the Loop duration was set to its minimum value.

TM-23453 - Fixed an issue where the Rotator would wobble and exhibit pivot instability when the Loop duration was set to very low values.

TM-23551 - Fixed an issue where adding items to the User library could cause crashes and other unexpected behavior.

TM-23666 - Fixed an issue where images with Auto focus enabled in Presentations were out of focus during playback.

TM-23642 - Fixed an issue where animated imported objects behaved incorrectly in the Scene graph.

TM-23659 - Fixed an issue where the unit system value reset to its default.

TM-22234 - Fixed an issue where video material thumbnails initially appeared black in the Materials dock when created on macOS.

TM-23295 - Fixed an issue where instances of Animators in sequences could behave incorrectly when one instance was changed to Collision mode.

TM-22566 - Fixed an issue where adding a child object to the User library could break the Notes functionality.

TM-22040 - Fixed an issue that could occur when copying a single material or folder after previously copying multiple selections.

TM-20949 - Fixed an issue where Pick focus could select hidden objects in configurations.

TM-19659 - Fixed an issue where the blue outline indicating selected materials in the Materials dock could disappear after entering and exiting a folder.

TM-19656 - Fixed an issue where preview icons were missing from the Create material context menu in the Materials dock.

UI

TM-23465 - Fixed an issue where the Transform panel icon could appear truncated.

TM-22064 - Fixed an issue where an extra comma appeared in the year field in the Phasing dialog when viewing Presentations.

TM-23579 - Fixed an issue where long Cloud paths were not truncated in the Twinmotion library setup.

TM-21621 - Fixed a performance issue where the LUT dropdown selection could become very laggy in heavy scenes.

TM-20570 - Fixed a user interface issue where configurations and Phasing groups could overlap in the Presentation Interface options.

TM-19625 - Fixed an issue where the Import window did not correctly adjust to screen resolution scaling.

TM-13058 - Fixed an issue where the “Take a screenshot” button was missing hover and click states.

TM-23746 - Fixed an issue where the "Use focal length" checkbox would reset on reopening files.

Known Bugs and Limitations Affecting 2026.2 Preview

Core

TM-22649 - Running two instances of Twinmotion simultaneously on macOS, including a Local Presentation, may cause a crash.

TM-23370 - Twinmotion may randomly display a black screen on systems running an NVIDIA RTX 5090 with drivers released in January.

Workaround: Install Studio Drivers instead of Game Ready Drivers.

TM-19797 - Exporting Presentations to Twinmotion Cloud may fail when the file name contains a comma.

TM-15904 - Panorama Sets uploaded to Twinmotion Cloud by unauthorized users may still be processed.

Import and Interoperability

TM-22491 - Physically-based materials may not import correctly from Rhino via Datasmith.

TM-22481 - UV tiling may not update consistently during Direct Link syncs when using Datasmith with Rhino.

TM-22954 - Materials may be assigned incorrectly after a Direct Link sync with SketchUp.

TM-23701 - SKP instances do not update new DCC material after reimporting.

TM-23696 - GLB DCC material override is not respected after reimporting.

Rendering and Export

TM-23618 - The Standard (LPV) rendering mode may appear overbright when using Night and Moon.

TM-23700 - When using the Dynamic sky in Realistic mode, and the Path tracer rendering mode, enabling snow during nighttime blows out the viewport.

TM-23712 - Shadow flickering can occur on animated characters when 3D grass is enabled.

TM-23719 - When using the Dynamic sky in Realistic mode, flickering occurs in nighttime moonless scenes when you increase the exposure.

Workaround: Add local lights or disable Auto-exposure.

TM-23765 - Path traced images on macOS cannot be converted to Lumen render.

Tools

TM-23705 - The Split tool does not work on certain models.

TM-23709 - The Constraint parameter on the Measure tool may reload incorrectly after being disabled and the project is saved and reopened.

TM-23707 - Unlinking the default object from a Custom path can create a model in the scene that cannot be removed.

TM-23706 - Light artifacts can appear in Smoke and Water VFX particles when transitioning from day to night.

TM-23759 - Custom path actors do not trigger animated files set to Collision mode.

UI

TM-23695 - There is no tooltip for Configuration or Phasing group when the names are truncated.