Chaos Vantage

Rendering

• Real-time rendering
  Render your scenes in 100% ray traced real-time thanks to the power of DXR-compatible GPUs. Enjoy physically accurate cameras, lights and materials while maintaining game 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 to your scene appear immediately in Chaos Vantage.
• Denoising
  Use the native denoiser for noise reduction voot high-quality output
• Batch rendering
  Queue up saved scenes and animations for batch rendering

Control

• Live linking
  Instantly sync changes to the scene in your application without exporting vrscenes.
• Materials
  The materials tab lets you easily view, assign, replace and search materials for an interactive workflow.
• 3D-navigation
  Navigate and control your cameras with the 3DConnexion SpaceMouse.
• Support for HDR monitor
  Make your projects extra brilliant with HDR monitor support.
• Quality presets
  Quickly choose between quality and interaction speed with one slider, so you can set Vantage for high-quality rendering or faster results.

Animaties and spcial effects

• Animated vegetation
  The Vantage “Wind” parameter allows supported Cosmos vegetation to move realistically, adding realism to your scenes.
• Distorted meshes
  Animate people and vegetation 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
  Bring even more .vrscene animation effects to Vantage. From flickering and fading lights to animating the tiling offset, your animated materials, textures and lights now work seamlessly in Vantage.
• Scattering fog
  Create the mood for your scenes with realistic environmental effects such as light rays, light beams through windows, street lights and volumetric fog with realistic light scattering.

Illumination

• Global Illumination
  Vantage GI is designed to provide maximum illumination accuracy at interactive rendering speed.
• Ambient Occlusion
  Add detail to your renderings with contact shadows using raytraced ambient occlusion.
• Localized Time
  Perform accurate light studies by quickly and easily setting the sun for a specific date, time and location. Create daylight time-lapse animations with minimal effort.
• Sun and sky
  Render realistic daylight for every hour of the day and create any type of cloudy sky with the easy-to-use yet powerful procedural cloud system.
• Accurate lights
  From physically accurate Area lighting to IES lighting with real-world measured light distribution to simplified point and spot lighting, Vantage renders your lighting with raytraced accuracy.
• Light instances
  Light instances are saved and can be easily managed.
• Create and place lights
  You can now create different types of lights directly in Vantage. Use the advanced placement options to achieve lookdev directly in Vantage without any application dependencies.
• NVIDIA RTXDI
  Add many dynamic lights to your scene without worrying about performance or resource limitations. Vantage implements NVIDIA RTXDI with the Direct light reservoir sampling feature.

Camera

• Virtuele Reality
  See your world from a whole new perspective. Vantage supports head tracking and rendering to HMD headsets, enabling exciting interactive experiences.
• Scenes
  Assign different lighting setups, materials, object transformations and post-processing to different cameras. Add animations for smooth transitions between different states. Easily call and send them for batch rendering.
• Realistic cameras
  Use real camera parameters and work like a virtual photographer - add depth of field and motion blur to your renders.
• Automatic exposure
  The camera's exposure automatically adjusts as you navigate through your scene.
• Bloom effect
  Add the popular lens effect to simulate real-world interaction between light sources and the camera.
• Overlays
  Overlays with composition guides make it easier to find the perfect frame.
• Orthographic cameras
  Easily create top-down or facade renderings with the orthographic camera projection.

Materials and textures

• Rounded edges
  Vantage smooths sharp edges to eliminate hard lines that don't look right.
• Decal with cylindrical projection
  Easily apply decals, labels and other images to flat surfaces or cylindrical objects such as bottles and jars. Adjust the projection of the Decal perfectly to the curvature of the object surface with a few clicks.
• Support for UDIM textures
  With UDIM texture support, UV mapping and texturing workflows become easier, simplifying UV map generation and texture assignment. In addition, Vantage can now render UDIMs.
• Refractive Gloss
  Create realistic matte gloss effects using the refractive gloss parameter in V-Ray Material.
• Support for shadows
  Support for Clear coat in V-Ray Material, V-Ray 2-sided material, Glossy Fresnel reflections, Substance textures, VRayBlendMtl, V-Ray MultiSubTex, MultiTexture, ForestColor, Normal maps and more.
• One-click clay render
  The powerful clay option significantly streamlines the material transfer process when setting exposure or presenting early designs.
• Material coating
  Add reflective coating to your material to achieve effects such as varnished wood or metallic paint.
• Multiple UV channels
  Enrich your projects by creating advanced materials such as stacking labels or adding stickers with the newly added support for multiple UV channels.
• Dynamic textures
  Vantage automatically resizes scene textures and uses the most optimal size. This uses memory much more efficiently and allows you to load even larger scenes.
• Normalmaps
  Add depth details such as bumps and dents to improve the realism of your surface material.
• Image sequences as textures
  Turn on the TV or light the fireplace by using lists of image files to animate textures.
• Randomizer
  Remove repeating patterns and add more realism to your textures using randomizer controls.

Geometry

• Chaos Cosmos integration.
  A collection of high-quality, render-ready 3D assets, HDR images and materials that allow you to quickly add believable entourage to your indoor or outdoor scene
• Chaos Scatter
  Fill your scenes with millions of objects in just a few clicks. Our new scatter tool lets you quickly and easily create forests, fields, crowds and more.
• Anima4D objects
  We've partnered with AXYZ to provide support for their 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.
• Hair and fur
  Create realistic carpets, rugs, animal fur and even grass with Vantage's support for V-Ray Fur. You can also create lifelike hair with precise highlights and customizable shimmer and glitter controls with support for VRayHairNextMtl.
• Displacement
  Create intricate geometric details of textures, ideal for designing bas-reliefs, sidewalks, brick/stone walls and similar structures that are difficult to model manually.

Post productie

• Render elements
  Add the most popular render elements, as well as object and material masks to refine your images afterwards.
• Cinematic tone mapping
  Simulate the color gamut of different real films to correct images.
• Color correction
  Adjust image colors using existing color corrections from a LUT file.

Produce high-quality renderings and animations in record time!