What's new?
Easy realistic exterior environments
With all these settings at your fingertips, you’ll undoubtedly start authoring some mood treatments you’d like to use on more than one occasion. The ability to save and reuse environment settings as presets enables you to apply all the settings in the Environment panel in a single click, with several default presets, including “Golden hour,” “Sunrise glow,” “Rainy day,” and “Mars horizon.”
Configurations
With a simple click on a trigger icon, you can instantly switch between the variations when using Twinmotion in Fullscreen mode or when viewing images, panoramas, videos, or sequences in local presentations.
Lighting and Rendering Enhancements
With applications across industries, this release brings a number of lighting and rendering enhancements to extend Twinmotion’s capabilities and increase the quality of your real-time renders.
Case in point: You can now project any image or video texture onto a surface with the new Projector lights—perfect for visualizing live events or installations, or for simulating effects like caustic reflections on the hull of a boat, for example.
Architects will be pleased to hear we’ve significantly enhanced real-time rendering of orthographic views in Standard and Lumen lighting modes; there’s now support for shadows, and the black outline around objects has been removed. This enables you to quickly produce high-quality plan and elevation views without using the Path Tracer, as well as facilitating more precise interactive object placement.
Real-time orthographic rendering in Twinmotion 2024.1 (L) versus Twinmotion 2025.1 (R).
Standard shadow maps (L) versus accurate shadow maps using VSM technology (R) in Twinmotion 2025.1
Camera animation enhancements
Regardless of whether you’re previsualizing a film shoot or showing off your architectural, automotive, or consumer product project to its best advantage, extra controls over your camera animation are always a boon, and this release offers several.
A new Orbit cam rig revolves the camera around its specified central pivot within the scene, making it easy to present a 360-degree view of an object or point of focus. You can set the start and end point and height offset.
You can now also intuitively ease controls for speed adjustment and spatial manipulation to achieve smooth and controlled camera motion by selecting points on a camera path and adjusting their tangents.
And you can precisely frame a shot on a specific moving target with the new ability to enable a look-at constraint for the Action cam.
Features for automotive and transportation design
This release offers a number of features with specific applicability to automotive and transportation designers.
Case in point: There’s new support for importing surfaces in the Alias Wire file format, which is widely used in the industry. In the Import dialog box, you can set tessellation parameters for extra precision; Coarse, Low, Medium, and High presets are provided. Autodesk Alias needs to be installed for this feature to be enabled.
There’s also a new Tire base material that textures and automatically creates UVs for flat cylindrical objects, such as tires. Four tire materials have also been added to the Library in the Materials category.
And there's more!
Rounding out these categories, there’s still more to discover in Twinmotion 2025.1 with a range of features designed to increase your productivity and make your work more enjoyable. There’s a new Measure tool that enables you to precisely measure the distance between any two arbitrary points. There are tools for mirroring objects across a plane, reversing face normals, and selecting and deleting faces. And there’s automatic level of detail (LOD) generation to enable you to maintain real-time performance when working with complex imported meshes.
The list doesn’t end there. You can now multi-select media and adjust any of their Ambience settings simultaneously, while keeping other settings different. For example, you could adjust the time of day or weather, turn Lumen on or off, or apply color grading effects across a range of media at once. You can also multi-select items in the Import dock for deletion.
And finally, what’s a release without a celebration? Bring on the new confetti particles! As well as a range of provided presets in the Twinmotion Library, you can save and reuse your own. It’s a glimpse of things to come.
In case you missed these...
Since our last major release, we’ve also sneaked in some extra goodies to our dot releases. If you missed them, be sure to check out the UV randomizer for breaking up repetitive texture tiling; more realistic wind animation on vegetation, and the ability to simulate wind on draped fabrics like curtains that debuted in Twinmotion 2024.1.1.
So that’s a round up of the highlights of what’s new since Twinmotion 2024.1. Take a look at the release notes to get more details on all the updates and enhancements in Twinmotion 2025.1.
