Here you will find the guidelines that we ask you to follow for all of your Enviz Life-like spaces. It is important to read through them carefully. They will help you create the best outcome for your experience and avoid costly delays to your project.

To commence your project, Enviz requires a 3DS Max file with all building elements, fittings, fixtures, furniture, styling and planting completed and signed off by your client. The scene must be lit using global illumination settings and not camera exposure controls. The 3DS Max scene must contain the following:

IMPORTANT!! This section runs through the technical limitations for your 3Ds Max scene, including supported and un-supported software. We strongly advise you to read through this with your team to ensure there are no possible delays.

If you have a question about your model in relation to the technical limitations feel free to reach out. Our team of technical experts and developers are ready to offer help and support where needed.

Quad Topology or Clean Geometry
Modifiers

​Instances

Floor Generator Modifier

Groups

Supported

Unsupported

Models – Trees / Plants / Landscaping

Feel free to send through your file with textures up to 16k. This is especially important for large 'high quality' surfaces such as timber, marble benchtops, marble flooring, and floor tiles. You may wish to downscale the textures for less important objects where appropriate. We ask for a minimum texture size of 2056x2056 pixels and prefer a 1:1 ratio for all textures. We do ask that you check to make sure no textures are flipped (this is especially obvious on books in VR). Please help our team by moving all glass onto a separate layer.

Enviz doesn’t (yet) support displacement or fall off. If your scene has either we will craft an alternative to match your scene. If you have any concerns, please reach out.

IMPORTANT! You must own the rights to any objects and textures, including Artwork in your scene!

Supported Materials:

Unsupported Materials:

Supported: Maps / Textures:

Unsupported: Maps / Textures:

When producing a real-time scene, it’s important that the lighting is consistent throughout the entire scene, as the viewer will be able to walk between all rooms. If you have an exterior scene, please be mindful of how you light the internal and external. An overly exposed internal scene may look un- natural when viewed from the exterior.

IMPORTANT! Your 3DS Max scene needs to use global exposure settings for the entire scene (rather than camera exposure values). We understand this can be an adjustment so please allow enough time to do test renders and speak to the team if you have any concerns.

As we are using your 3DS Max scene as the basis for the Enviz Space we can’t support any post-production edits you would normally do on the resulting 2D renders.

However, we can support post-production global adjustments made using the V-Ray (.flbl) or Corona (.conf) buffer settings (VFB) inside 3DS Max. Please send the relevant pre-set file (.flbl or .conf) as the relevant settings don’t always transfer across with the archive 3DS Max model. You need to include the settings file in your file transfer/upload.

Environment – 3DS Max Settings

Corona VFB

V-Ray VFB

Once you are happy with your scene, we suggest you do some test renders to check textures, lighting, and materials. Remember your scene will be able to be viewed in VR from any angle so don’t forget to check down low and up high.

Add extras to make your project pop.

If your project has views that your client wants to showcase you may want to incorporate 360 photos into the Enviz Space. To add 360 photos to the Enviz Space, Enviz requires 8k minimum (16k preferred) stitched 360 degree .jpg images.

Any ‘view’ photography should match your CGI renders time of day i.e. morning, noon or dusk.

Please note, a 360 image is not the same as a panoramic image. Please make sure that your background image is 360 degree's. If it is not, then there will be gaps when looking up and down from external windows or balconies. Remember, there are no limitations to where your viewing capabilities in VR.

Here is some helpful information to supply to your drone photographer if you wish to engage with one:

IMPORTANT! Enviz take no responsibility for the correct placement of a drone photograph in your scene. If you have not supplied the image in the correct location to begin with, we will need you to supply us with an updated 3Ds Max scene, where the drone image has been placed in the correct location. We will also require at least 1 x 360 render to be taken from within your updated scene.

Any placement of the drone image done by Enviz will need to be signed off by yourself and/or your client.

Great looking high polygon count landscaping can be difficult for Enviz to convert, but not impossible! We require that you remove any feathers, fine grasses or flowers and request you to use ‘architectural’ plants with broad leaves and large surfaces, where suitable.

If you are unsure of how to complete a scene with landscaping, or if your planting scheme will work in the experience, please reach out to the Enviz team to discuss.

These guidelines should be simple adjustments alongside your existing process. Its important to adhere to these where possible, and not just for your first experience. If we find that your models are not aligning to these guidelines we may need to organise a technical meeting to provide additional support.

Please keep in mind that models that do not align will take our team longer to process. We may be required to mitigate this with price adjustments.

Lastly, it is crucial that your experience is 100% signed off by all relevant parties before you submit to Enviz. We have provided you with a helpful plugin which can be used as a part of your review process.

Any model that is supplied to us which has not been 100% signed off will likely cause delays and could incur additional fee's.