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Epic Games buys Twinmotion!!!

strangeday
Booster
Epic Games, the developer of unreal engine, has acquired Twinmotion from Abvent….the very interest thing is that the actual version…..2019v2, with some little modification, will be free to download until Nov 2019, and free of use forever !!

here the new official homepage
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/twinmotion
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Anonymous
Not applicable
Here's another source for Twinmotion videos -
Do a search on you tube for "askNK Twinmotion".
Some good information there.
fhedberg
Contributor
Anyone having an annoying pop up saying Twinmotion Plugin is outdated and theres a newer version available evertime they open Archicad....?

We have re-downloaded the plugin and installed a number of times but pop up remains.
Happens for us on both AC21 and AC22.
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Stress Co_
Advisor
I can't run the installer, "because Apple cannot check it for malicious software":

In other news....
An enhanced version of Twinmotion will be free with AC23

Here's a link to the announcement:
Starts @ about 59:00:
https://www.graphisoft.com/archicad-23-live-stream/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTlRObU16TTRPRFUxTjJFMSIsInQiOiJaNU0wa2doOE5sUlRvZkZCS0JpTXVzUVA5R2xPSlpwU3dabVZXdG9xS3k3c1dHcjFucFFhUlhueHMrNmliQkdERkZoSGFha2pwQnVBUjlHREc5SjlqdlBVMEx6U1NJaGVtdnU4ZEtPSjdcL09nbmVcL0JyWVFFcmp2REpQZ2NIR2F0In0%3D
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Erwin Edel
Rockstar
fhedberg wrote:
Anyone having an annoying pop up saying Twinmotion Plugin is outdated and theres a newer version available evertime they open Archicad....?

We have re-downloaded the plugin and installed a number of times but pop up remains.
Happens for us on both AC21 and AC22.
Yep. AC20 too.
Erwin Edel, Project Lead, Leloup Architecten
www.leloup.nl

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DGSketcher
Legend
Stress wrote:
In other news....
An enhanced version of Twinmotion will be free with AC23
Does this mean Cinema has been given notice and will be replaced by Twinmotion in AC24 or is this just a ploy to get users to pay for it in the future like other 3rd party add ons?
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fhedberg
Contributor
Erwin wrote:
fhedberg wrote:
Anyone having an annoying pop up saying Twinmotion Plugin is outdated and theres a newer version available evertime they open Archicad....?

We have re-downloaded the plugin and installed a number of times but pop up remains.
Happens for us on both AC21 and AC22.
Yep. AC20 too.
Got it sorted....its wasnt the direct link that needed the update.
Open up the 'Epic Games Launcher' and run what ever update is listed....worked for us.
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Lingwisyer
Guru
DGSketcher wrote:
Stress wrote:
In other news....
An enhanced version of Twinmotion will be free with AC23
Does this mean Cinema has been given notice and will be replaced by Twinmotion in AC24 or is this just a ploy to get users to pay for it in the future like other 3rd party add ons?

It does not ray-trace though, so until it does, I would doubt it. My guess would be the second point.



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Anonymous
Not applicable
Ling,
The update to the unreal engine will incorporate real time ray tracing

Regards,
Scott
Erwin Edel
Rockstar
I'm still getting the 'A newer version is available' notification. I've downloaded the installer again, ran all updates in the Epic Launcher even installed Unreal Engine and made sure that is up to date.

When I click 'about' in ArchiCAD it says 'v1.5.1, SDK AC=22.265, MT=5410, SD=46'. Any idea if this is the latest version or why it keeps pestering me to update when I can't find any updates? Running it on WIN10.
Erwin Edel, Project Lead, Leloup Architecten
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Karl Ottenstein
Moderator
The 'newer version is available' message for me was just for the plug-in, not Twinmotion itself... downloaded the AC plug-in again from their site and it went away. (The whole thing with their game launcher was a hassle on the initial install, as the download link was to an out-of-date version of the launcher, which then downloaded an out of date version of Twinmotion... so lots of updates later, everything worked.)

...but thanks for the tip about launching the Epic Games launcher... as it is now downloading a Twinmotion update which I wasn't prompted for in-product. It's super annoying on my really low-speed internet connection that it is re-downloading all 8.32 GB vs an incremental updater.
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