Released 4th November 2025
Auto Referencing
- Overview: A brand-new referencing feature that automatically shows dimensions between items, walls, and units as soon as you select an object.
- Key Functionalities:
- Instantly displays measurement lines without needing manual reference placement.
- Supports both wall-to-item and item-to-item referencing.
- Improves speed and accuracy when checking alignment in complex designs.
Cycles Updates
- Overview: Cycles receives targeted improvements for realism and control in visualisation workflows.
- Key Functionalities:
- New Architectural (two-point perspective) projection ensures verticals remain perfectly straight.
- Cycles now respects near and far clipping planes for accurate alignment with the 3D viewport.
- Lighting Wizard gains support for setting VR light wattage for finer rendering adjustments.
- New Rendering Device option. If your GPU is unsupported or outdated, Cycles may produce a white image. In these cases, switch to CPU rendering for compatibility (though this may be slower).
Rendering Engine Update
- Overview: In this version of Virtual Worlds, the old FinalRender rendering engine has been removed in favour of the new Cycles engine. This allows us to focus resources on further enhancing Cycles and to deliver an even better user experience.
VR Light Wattage
- Overview: Reintroduces the ability to set Render Wattage for VR Lights.
- Key Functionalities:
- Found under Lighting Wizard > Environment tab.
- Allows finer adjustments to VR Light behaviour when rendering scenes.
Bug Fixes
- Resolves a crash that occurred when reopening designs saved through the unsaved changes prompt.
- Fixes an issue with auto referencing not working with some doors
- Fixes an issue with wall panels snapping above the ceiling
- Fixes a DPI issue on the Create Image dialog
- Fixes a crash in 2D diagrams when doing a manual measurement across another manual link
- Fixed crash when using "Select All Delete" with tiled recesses.
- Fixed crash when creating tiles with extremely large images.
- Resolved issue with cubes not always showing dimensions in 2D Plans and Elevations.
- Corrected off-colour rendering of spherical scenery in Cycles.
- Fixed incorrect shadowing appearing on some items in Cycles.
- Corrected orthographic camera zooming too far out when scenery sphere is present.
- Resolved wall panels incorrectly appearing above windows.
- Fixed wall paint requiring a second coat before applying correctly.
- Removed redundant and incorrect image export formats.
- Removed MOV file type from image export dropdown.
- Corrected text clipping in the Colour dialog.
- Fixed ‘Default to fixed resolution’ checkbox unchecking when reopening Create Image dialog.
- Resolved selection shadow remaining over toolbar icons.
- Fixed toolbar tooltips not disappearing when moving between different toolbars.
- Corrected occasional issue where VWCEFHelper.exe did not close correctly.
- Fixes an intermittent crash when deleting an item that cuts other items
- Adds new layer names to "Bathroom Template" for 2D diagrams
- Fixes a crash when using the Tiling Wizard to reapply tiles on a tileable unit