Official Release
Date - May 22, 2025
Download Vantage, 2 update 8.1
New Features
Camera
- Support for camera film offset from Maya.
Profiler
- Added rendering profiler.
Modified
Performance
- Improved the memory usage when shader execution reordering (SER) is enabled.
Textures
- Improved video file textures - now they always loop.
Camera
- Modified Live Link animation rendering when using animated camera - now only camera from DCC can be used for Live Link rendering. Created camera animation from the Animation editor in Vantage will be ignored.
Fixes
Live Link
- Crash in live link when updating tyFlow instances.
Output
- Crash after failing to render offline with large resolutions.
Camera
- Main camera not getting imported when appending .vrscene file.
Scatter
Crash when Chaos Scatter uses a distribute-on object with invisible faces.
Incorrect back face culling for geometry instances affected by edge trimming.
Non-working "pivot offset" for proxy, in Chaos Scatter
Textures
Incorrect rendering of "edge visibility" and "random by element" when the mesh has hidden faces
- Ignoring of geometry, hidden by ForestPro's 'edge' mode or ChaosScatter's edge trimming, when "ignore invisible objects" is enabled for VRayDirt
Lens effects
Exposure correction not being applied to lens effects threshold.
Memory allocation error when using lens effects at 8192x8192 resolution.
The updating of lens effects on final offline render pass
Displacement
- Wrong displacement when the mesh has hidden faces.
UI
- Overlapping of UI labels in the "Convert .abc to .vrmesh?" dialog box.
Installer
- Failing installation of Cosmos Browser.