This page provides information about the Chaos Vantage home screen.
Overview
Chaos Vantage Home is a welcome screen that appears when opening the Chaos Vantage application. It allows you to open empty files or existing ones; provides you with links to useful websites such as Vantage documentation and tutorials, forums, feedback forms, and Chaos websites; and gives you access to various sample scenes.
Once a scene file is opened, you can bring back the Chaos Vantage Home screen from the manu bar icon.
UI
New file – Opens an empty file with a default texture environment.
Open file – Opens a browse window to select and load a scene file (.vrscene or .vantage file).
Tutorials – Opens Chaos Vantage tutorials website.
Docs – Opens Chaos Vantage online documentation portal.
Forums – Opens Chaos Vantage forum.
Support – Opens Chaos Help Center which provides helpful information such as service status, learning resources, troubleshooting solutions, and a request form.
Send feedback – Opens a new browser window leading to the Chaos Vantage Ideas Portal.
Chaos – Opens Chaos website.
Recent files – Shows recently opened scene files. This section is not available upon initial startup.
Sample scenes – Double-click a scene to initiate download. Once the scene is downloaded, double-click it again to open it.
– Indicator that a scene needs to be downloaded.
– Indicator that the scene is downloaded.
Context Menus
Right-clicking a scene thumbnail opens a dropdown menu with options for downloading, locating, opening, and purging the scene file. Depending on whether you click on a sample scene or a recently opened scene, the dropdown menu options differ.
Recent files
Open scene location – Opens the scene files location in Windows explorer.
Samples scenes
Download – Starts downloading the sample scene. This option is available only for sample scenes that have not been downloaded yet.
Open scene location – Opens the scene files location in Windows explorer.
Reset .vantage scene to default – Resets the scene file to its default state if changes have been made beforehand.
Delete from disk – Deletes the sample scene files.