Twinmotion 2020 New Features Tips and Tricks

What's happening ladies and gentlemen, this is Minh from Architecture Inspirations. Today I'm going to show you the new features in Twinmotion 2020. Let's get started. 1. Vegetation Scatter Tool To use this new feature, first go to Context, then click here for the Vegetation Scatter Tool. Now I can go to the library and choose a model then drag it in here to get started. Next, I can select the object in the list and use the Scatter Add tool then click on the imported terrain to start placing it. You can see that the trees has been scattered randomly on top of the imported terrain. If I click again, it will keep adding more trees and increase the density. Now just repeat this process to add other types of trees to the scene. You can also use the Scatter Remove tool to remove the selected trees at random. If you want to remove a specific area, then use the Eraser tool instead. To delete all instances of a tree from the scene, I can click on the three dots and delete. You can delete multiple types of trees at once too. A useful tip is that you can place multiple instances of the same object to increase the density. 2. High Quality Trees If you've noticed, these trees are part of the new high resolution tree assets in Twinmotion 2020. Each new tree asset has more polygons than the previous assets in Twinmotion 2019. And the texture resolution of the materials has been improved as well. If you look at the trees under the sun, you will see that the leaf material is two-sided so you can see the effect of the light shining through the leaves. The best thing about the new trees is that they are procedural, which takes me to the next new feature. 3. Vegetation Growth Since the trees were procedurally made, there's a new property for each tree called Age, which allows you to adjust the age of the tree. You can see that it's not simply increasing the size, but it's also changing the shape of the tree based on three different ages. This makes the tree assets more dynamic. This is very useful when you combine it with the scatter tool, just select each group and go to the settings to change the age to a different amount. As you can see, you can easily make a realistic forest with just one type of tree. Pretty cool huh? Besides changing the age in the settings of the tree, when you create an image, you can go to its weather settings and use the growth slider to adjust all the trees at once. If you don't want a tree or a group of trees to be affected by the growth slider, then just turn it off here. As you can see, with this new feature, we can show the clients how the vegetation will affect the architectural design as time passes by. 4. Grass Customization Now I will use the scatter tool again and add some grass to my model. Similar to the trees, the grass assets have been improved and now you can change the look of the grass by adjusting the options for the size, tint color, dryness, which gives it a rough texture, as well as the effect of the wind on the grass, and stripes, which is useful for creating grass on a soccer field. 5. High Quality Vegetation Assets Twinmotion 2020 also added many realistic Quixel Megascans assets such as bushes, ferns, and other plants as well as other miscellaneous items such as dead branches, wood piles, ivy, etc. Just add these to your model to make the scene more interesting and realistic. 6. Improved Vegetation Painting The Improved Vegetation Paint tool now allows you to edit the density of the objects after painting. You can also remove the assets but still keep the painted area. This way, you can easily replace the assets without starting from scratch. When using this feature, you will see the grain triangles on the areas that are painted even if there are no assets in the viewport. So now I can paint before I add any assets to the list. This is also useful to see painted areas of grass which is optimized to show closer to the camera. As you can see, the grass aren't showing up far away. But if we click on the grass area, we can see the painted area which is highlighted by the triangles. This means that the grass is still there even if you can't see it from far away. But when you move closer, it will become visible. This is to help your computer run faster but you can also adjust the distance of the fading grass in the settings. Note that this only affects the viewport but when you render it, all of the painted grass areas will be visible even the ones that are really far away. When working with multiple layers, note that you can manage the vegetation layers with the Asset Manager. It's also a good idea to rename the layers appropriately. 7. New Physical Sky Twinmotion 2020 has a new physically based atmospheric sun and sky model. This will allow you to create more realistic and accurate exterior renders. Just compare the sunset in Twinmotion 2020 versus Twinmotion 2019 and you will see a huge difference. 8. Improved Global Illumination Here I have a model in the previous version of Twinmotion and here's the same model in Twinmotion 2020 with the same lighting setup. But as you can see, this looks a lot better because of the new Screen Space Global Illumination method for dynamic indirect lighting. Here's a side by side comparison between the two versions. As you can see, by default, this will make your interior scenes look a lot better. 9. New Area Light The new Area Light has been added to the library. This light is good for simulating light emission from large areas, such as ceiling panels or large windows. The light is diffused by default but you can also turn on the shadows if you need. 10. Volumetric Light When using the Omni Light in the Spotlights, you will see that there's a new Haze option. When enabled, this will simulate the effect of light rays visible through particles floating in the air such as fog, mist, dust, or smoke. Pretty cool huh? 11. Improved Glow Material The Glow Material in Twinmotion 2020 has been improved. It now uses Screen Space Global Illumination which allows you to use it as a light source. This is ideal for lamps, neon lights, monitors, or other glowing objects. For a more realistic result, you can copy the Color Map and paste it in the Glow Map. 12. Video as Material Instead of using the Glow Material for the TV screen, I can use the new Video Material in Twinmotion 2020. Then I can add a little glow, or I can change the video to a custom one as well. 13. Frosted Glass Material Twinmotion 2020 also added a new frosted glass material making it easy to simulate translucent glass that scatters light, such as privacy windows. You can adjust the roughness of it here as well. 14. Grunge Material In the Color Map of a material, there's a new Grunge property that you can use to add a grunge effect. This is useful when creating a dirty wall or weathered wood material. 15. More Realistic 3D People The animated characters in the previous version of Twinmotion have been replaced with new high quality 3D people. They come in various clothing styles and different ethnicities so you can use them for any project. Just drag and drop a character to place it in the scene. The new characters come with 5 variations of clothing and lots of poses. Some are super cool. For each pose, there are different animations that you can try. Just use whichever works best for your scene. In addition, there are new 3D ready pose characters as well, which are also high quality photo scans. I also like to use the group of characters which make it really fast to populate your model in any environment. You can always edit the group using the asset editor too. 16. Cinematic Depth of Field The depth of field effect in Twinmotion has been improved. Besides the distance settings, you now have more controls for the aperture and the bokeh shape. There's also an autofocus tool that helps you automatically focus on a spot in the scene. You can also change the field of view for a more dramatic effect. Pretty cool huh? 17. The Note Tool In the tools folder of the library, you can now use the note object to add annotations to your scene. This is useful for providing feedback during project review or marking up information such as the brand names or materials. These annotations can also be imported into Revit, ArchiCAD, or many other BIM software. 18. Twinmotion Presenter To use the new presenter, go to the media mode and click on Presenter. Now you can add images by dragging it here. Videos also work too. Once done, you can play a preview using these controls here. Or you can preview it up here in fullscreen. As you can see, the new Twinmotion Presenter allows you to easily create a presentation with multiple viewpoints and camera paths. You can also export this as a package that allows clients or colleagues to view the project in a standalone viewer. The cool thing is that you can set the camera movement to be locked, guided, or free which allows the user to explore the model in the standalone viewer. 19. New Rhino Direct Link Plugin If you use Rhino, then use the new Direct Plugin for Rhino which enables you to synchronize your Rhino and Grasshopper data into Twinmotion with just a single click. 20. X-Ray Material And finally is the new X-Ray option on the generic Twinmotion materials which allows you to see objects occluded by other things in the scene. This mode can easily be toggled on and off. This feature is useful for showing mechanical, electrical, and plumbing data. And those are the new features for Twinmotion 2020. If you want to get Twinmotion 2020, then follow this link here. That's all for today guys, leave a like if you enjoyed the video, comment below and let me know what you think of the new version. Stay inspired guys, and I'll see you next time.