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Overview Experience real-time, high-quality scene exploration with Chaos Vantage. Simply drag and drop your complete V-Ray or Corona scenes and dive straight into ray-traced environments without any time-consuming conversions. Chaos Vantage removes workflow bottlenecks so you can focus on creativity, not file prep. Whether you’re visualizing architecture, pre-visualizing for film, or showcasing automotive designs, Chaos Vantage lets you generate stunning visualizations on the fly. Iterate lighting, materials, and composition instantly, and bring your most complex 3D productions to life faster than ever. Chaos Vantage requires a DXR-compatible GPU.

Use Chaos Vantage as an Archviz artist

Explore & present unlimited design variations Switch between design options, material schemes, and lighting configurations to compare, explain, and explore all the possibilities you have for your design or its presentation.	See every aspect of your scene as you model A real-time companion view, unaffected by scene size, that gives you a highly realistic perspective of your scene as you adjust materials, lighting, and geometry.	Render super fast Produce high-quality renderings and animations in record time at a quality level that makes approval easy - including all the render elements needed for post-production.

Use Chaos Vantage as a VFX professional

Playblasts at exceptional quality Playblasts that convey the actual materials and lighting of your production for far more meaningful review and approval.	Previz with full-size scenes, that can be reused in production Ray tracing in real-time without scene simplification or baking, using the same materials and lighting as your production team.	Real-time reference A real-time ray-traced view that closely matches your production rendering results as you finalize your scene. Also perfect for over-the-shoulder discussions while making decisions.

What's New

Experience incredible immersion and extra realism with the new features in the latest update. Dive into your designs with virtual reality support, enhance visual storytelling by animating vegetation, use rounded edges to refine your models, and more. 

Virtual reality See your world from a whole new perspective. Vantage now supports head tracking and rendering to HMD headsets, enabling exciting interactive experiences.	Animated vegetation Vantage’s new “Wind” parameter makes supported Cosmos vegetation assets sway realistically, adding realism to your scenes.
Rounded edges Every designer knows that there’s no such thing as a perfectly square edge. Now Vantage will smooth sharp edges, eliminating those harsh lines that don’t look quite right.	Partial opacity Vantage now offers adjustable per-object transparency, enabling smooth transitions between fully opaque and fully transparent states. Perfect for making objects appear/disappear.

Features

Rendering

• Real-time rendering - Render your scenes in 100% ray traced real-time through the power of DXR-compatible GPUs. Enjoy physically accurate cameras, lights, and materials while retaining game-like interactivity.
• Live Link animation rendering - Get a live raytraced view of your scene, and render animations with a live link from 3ds Max, Maya, SketchUp, Rhino, Revit, and Cinema 4D. Changes you make in your scene will instantly appear in Chaos Vantage.
• Denoising - Employ the Vantage native denoiser designed for real time denoising or the NVIDIA AI Denoiser, when rendering high quality output to automatically remove noise.
• Batch rendering - Easily queue camera views and animation sequence jobs in the render queue.

UI

• Live link - Instantly sync changes done to the scene in your DCC without exporting vrscenes.
• Material workflow - The material tab lets you easily preview, assign, replace, and search materials for an interactive workflow.
• 3D navigation - Navigate and direct your cameras using the popular 3DConnexion SpaceMouse controller.
• HDR Monitor support - Make your projects extra radiant with HDR monitor support.
• Quality presets - Quickly choose between quality and interaction speed with a single slider, allowing you to set Vantage for high-quality rendering or faster feedback.

Animations & special effects

• Deformed meshes - Animate people and vegatation and create richer animations for your project presentations.
• Animation Editor - Easily create animations by dropping cameras, adjusting length, adding transitions and exporting video or image sequences.
• Extended animations - Take even more .vrscene animation effects into Vantage. From flickering and fading lights to animating the tiling offset, your animated materials, textures, and lights now work seamlessly in Vantage.
• Scattering fog - Set the mood for your scenes with realistic environmental effects such as god rays, light shafts through windows, streetlights, with volumetric fog with realistic light scattering.

Lighting

• Global Illumination - Vantage GI is developed to provide maximum lighting accuracy at interactive rendering speed.
• Ambient occlusion - Add detail to your renderings with contact shadows using raytraced ambient occlusion.
• Geolocated time of day - Perform accurate light studies by quickly and easily setting up the sun for a given date, time and location. Create daylight time-lapse animations with minimum effort.
• Sun & Sky - Render realistic daylight for any hour of the day and create any type of cloudy sky with the user-friendly yet powerful procedural cloud system.
• Accurate lights - From physically accurate Area lights, to IES lights with real world measured light distribution, to simplified point and spot lights, Vantage renders your lights with raytraced accuracy.
• Light instancing - Light instances are preserved and can be controlled easily.
• Light creation and placement - You can now create various types of lights directly in Vantage. Use the advanced placement options to achieve lookdev directly in Vantage without any DCC dependency.
• NVIDIA RTXDI - Add plenty of dynamic lights to your scene without worrying about performance or resource constraints. Vantage implements NVIDIA RTXDI with its Direct light reservoir sampling feature.

Camera

• Scene states - Assign different light setups, materials, object transformation and post-process looks to different cameras. Easily recall and send them for batch rendering.
• Real-world cameras - Use real world camera parameters and work like a virtual photographer - add depth of field and motion blur to your renders.
• Auto Exposure - The camera exposure adjusts automatically as you navigate in your scene.
• Bloom effect - Add the popular lens effect to simulate the real-world interaction between the light sources and the camera.
• Overlays - Composition guides overlays make it easier to find the perfect frame.
• Orthographic cameras - Easily create top-down or facade renderings with the orthographic camera projection.

Materials & textures

• Shading support - Support for Clear coat in V-Ray Material, V-Ray 2 Sided Material, Glossy Fresnel reflections, Substance textures, V-Ray MultiSubTex, MultiTexture, ForestColor, Normal maps, and more.
• One-click clay override - The powerful Clay option significantly streamlines the material overrides process when setting up lighting or presenting early designs.
• Material Coat - Add reflective coating to your material to achieve effects like varnished wood or metallic paint.
• Multiple UV channels - Enrich your projects by creating sophisticated materials such as stacking labels or adding decals with newly added support for multiple UV channels.
• Dynamic textures - Vantage automatically resizes the scene textures and uses the most optimal size. This greatly improves memory efficiency and allows you to load even larger scenes.
• Normal maps - Add depth detail like bumps and dents to improve the realism of your surface material.
• Image sequences as textures - Turn the TV on or light up the fireplace by using image file lists to animate textures.
• Randomizer - Remove repeating patterns and add more realism to your textures using randomization controls.

Geometry

• Chaos Cosmos integration - A collection of high-quality, render-ready 3D assets, HDR images and materials that quickly add believable entourage to your interior or exterior scene.
• Chaos Scatter - Populate your scenes with millions of objects in just a few clicks. Our new scatter tool allows you to quickly and easily create forests, fields, crowds, and more.
• Support for Anima4D assets - We’ve partnered with AXYZ to provide support for its high-quality 3D library of animated 4D people and crowds.
• Mesh Lights - Turn any geometry into a direct light source for even more artistic lighting. Mesh lights are now rendered much faster than before.

Post production

• Render Elements - Add the most popular render elements, as well as object and material masks to fine tune your images in post.
• Filmic Tonemapping - Simulate different real-world films’ color gamma to color correct images.
• Color correction - Remap the image colors using present color corrections from a LUT file.

Tutorials

V-Ray Tutorials

You can find a collection of our favorite V-Ray Tutorials here:

V-Ray Tutorials