ICEscapes™ allows you to set your design in a realistic virtual world that adds real-world effects like sunlight and street-rendering.

 

ICEscapes is a plug-in that requires a separate license. For more information about ICEscapes licensing, contact us at info@ice-edge.com.

 

If ICEscapes is a part of your license, your ICE layout appears in the ICEscapes window, immersed in a virtual world that includes buildings, cars, people, trees, and realistic lighting. This virtual world is an ICEscape.

 

 

Here's what it looks like with ICEscapes turned off:

 

Here's the same view with ICEscapes turned on:

 

This image shows the outside view of the same ICEscape:

 

 

Location, Time, and Lighting

ICEscapes are more than static backgrounds. In the ICEscapes Control dialog box, you can choose a location, day, and time to simulate sunlight. You can also adjust the brightness of the sun or add and remove clouds from the sky. Light realistically reflects off the buildings and streams into your layout.

 

If you want to see how your layout appears throughout the day in different lighting, you can creation a time-lapse animation of the sun’s movement. You control the start and end time and speed for the animation. For example, you can make 12 hours pass in 12 seconds.

 

ICEscapes can also simulate lighting in the interior space of your layout. You can use lights to create a study of light and shadows on your project.

 

 

 

 

 

Last updated: July 2023