Official Release
Date - December 02, 2020
New Features
Environment Fog
- Added two environment fog layers with individual settings
UX
- Support for deleting objects in the scene
- Added "Place" functionality when drag and dropping .vrscene
Live Link
- Added option for installation of 3Ds Max live link scripts in installer
UI
- Added toggle opacity button in top toolbar
- Added option to make Chaos Vantage window always on top
Video
- Record the viewport to an .mp4 file in real time
- Added .mp4 and .mkv export type for animation
Offline Render
- Added denoising and motion blur option in render high quality snapshot or sequence
Post
- Added color space setting for LUT files
Texture
- Added support for UVWGenRandomizer
Motion blur
- Support for motion blur in offline rendering
MAX Scripts
- Included in installer Initiate Live Link to Chaos Vantage, Export and send the current scene as static .vrscene to Chaos Vantage, Export and send the current animation range as a .vrscene to Chaos Vantage as well as the Import Changes from Chaos Vantage tools compatible with 3ds Max versions 2019, 2020 and 2021.
Modified
Material
- Improved bump support with scenes generated from V-Ray 5
- Improved bump parity between Chaos Vantage and V-Ray
Live Link
- Improved Live link support with all V-Ray 5 plugins supporting DR
UI
- Reworked Camera tab parameters layout
- Improved icon and camera thumbnail rendering for hi dpi monitors
- Increased environment "Intensity" cap to 1000
- Replaced EDITOR, LUT and BLOOM buttons with icons
- Added Feedback Program tab in Preferences menu
- Improved Shortcuts menu layout
Fixes
Material
- Bump does not render behind refractive objects
Camera
- Crash when deleting camera while in "Recording camera movement" mode
"Level Camera" does not reset correctly camera roll with an Y scene_upDir
Multi GPU
- Creeping artifacts with 2 GPUs