What's New

Chaos Vantage, v2.5.2

Official Release

Date - September 12, 2024

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Modified

Geometry

Semi-transparent objects after multiple bounces now do not render black.

UI/UX

In Color corrections tab Highlight burn option now is available when Filmic tonemap is enabled.

Fixes

UI/UX

UI input spinboxes are cutoff for sun geolocation and animated geolocation properties.
Floating settings dialog getting stuck to the cursor when the label is clicked.
Crash while downloading sample scenes.
Crash when a non-Custom offline render preset is restored from INI file.
Crash on Intel GPUs when responsive desktop is turned on.
Some shortcuts not working on startup

Camera

Wrong skipping of the first camera when importing/merging a .vrscene.

Scatter

Crash with scatter using edited instances from Max.
Disappearing deforming instances used in Chaos Scatter.

Rendering

Unrecognized color spaces (scene-linear Rec.709-sRGB) treated as raw when loading textures.
Motion blur not rendering since 2.5.0.
Render artifacts with bump/normal maps using named or non-default UV sets also used by other textures.

Geometry

Hair rendering on Intel GPUs.
Wrong displacement normals when the base object is scaled in Maya.
Animated object visibility not working with decals.

Environment

Rendering with large HDRI texture on AMD and Intel GPUs.

Material

Vertical flip not working in UVW transformation for Opacity map.

Chaos Vantage, v2.5.1

Official Release

Date - July 11, 2024

Modified

Geometry

Cloned animated deforming objects now keep the source mesh animation.

Fixes

Virtual Reality

Vantage crashes on startup when SteamVR is set as OpenXR runtime .

Fur

Interactive update of a material on fur objects while dragging and dropping.

Chaos Vantage, v2.5.0

Official Release

Date - June 2, 2024

New Features

Virtual Reality

Initial(WIP) support for interactive rendering in VR headsets. Details

Chaos Vantage is compatible with all VR headsets (tested with Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest Pro, Meta Quest 3, HTC Vive, and Varjo Aero). Wireless connection is supported, but for smooth performance a tethered connection is recommended. Ensure an appropriate OpenXR runtime is set in the VR's respective app:

Windows Mixed Reality: "Mixed Reality Portal" > "Settings" > "Set up OpenXR".
Oculus: "Oculus" app > "Settings" > "General" > "Set Oculus as Active".
SteamVR: "SteamVR" app > "Settings" > "Developer" > "Set SteamVR as OpenXR Runtime

Animation

Support for Chaos Cosmos animated vegetation assets. Details

Materials

Support for VRayEdgesTex in bump and rounded corners.

Geometry

Support for animated partial object visibility.

Rendering

Support for ACEScg rendering color space.
Tool for quickly saving a previz video with DLSS. Details

UI/UX

Search filtering and sorting for scene objects, lights, and cameras.
Progress bar for importing assets.
Added meter scale information in the log and Scene stats.
Added "Flip horizontally" option to the Background image. Details
Added ability to drag and drop files onto FilePath property labels(LUTs, Environment texture, Background texture, Point, Spot, Directional Projection textures).

Color Corrections

Loading chromatic aberration from VFB settings in .vrscene.

Modified

Decals

Added decal option to lock the width/length ratio.
Improved the "place decals" tool to be activated when importing or dragging decals from the Chaos Cosmos browser and to load the decal properties.

UI/UX

Improved the "Always on top" behavior, now it is disabled while HQ rendering.
Improved UI - now distance parameters display with scene units.
Improved the camera settings layout.
Improved the highlighting and selection in scenes with millions of instances.

Environment

The default sun is now auto-enabled when it is the only light in the scene.
Added Improved shading option to the clouds that improves self-shadowing. Details

Performance

Texture loading speed is now 5-10% faster.
Improved acceleration structure rebuilds and instance updates for better performance.

Vantage file

Merged assets as a result of "Open file as config only" now are properly saved in the .vantage file.

Installer

New default install directory is C:\Program Files\Chaos\Vantage\. For versions prior to Chaos Vantage 2.5, the default location is - C:\Program Files\Chaos Group\Vantage\

Fixes

Environment

Visible strip artifacts on clouds.
Incorrect environment rotation when using the "Flipped" option in Maya

Decals

Decals not rendering from Live Link from Revit or other V-Ray 6.1 builds.
Decals not updating on animated objects under specific circumstances.
Transform animation from .vrscene being ignored for decals.

Textures

Incorrect saturation of textures when dynamic textures are enabled.
Reduced checker artifacts with UVWRandomizer random rotation and certain normal maps when dynamic textures are enabled.

UI/UX

Overlay issue when using multiple GPUs with OptiX or DLSS upscaling.
Incorrect change of the "View mode" after "Frame Selected/Scene" action.
Hiding of the "Create scene state" dialog when "Always on top" option is enabled.
Undo transformation for objects in very large scenes.
Non-functioning undo shortcut while the Transform Dialog is open.

Vantage file

Generation of additional clone objects when opening the scene as config only.0

Chaos Vantage, v2.4.0

Official Release

Date - May 21, 2024

New Features

Geometry

Support for importing and creating V-Ray Decal. Details
Support for nested V-Ray scenes inside V-Ray scenes.

Materials

Support for "Thin walled" option in V-Ray material.

Textures

Support for UDIM textures.

Color corrections

Added white balance to color correction tab. Details
Loading most VFB color corrections settings from .vrscene files (Exposure, Filmic, White Balance, Hue/Saturation, Color Balance, LUT)

Camera

Support for setting "Auto-exposure" and "exposure bias" from .vrscene or Live-link.

Lights

Support for dome light "horizontal flip" option from Maya.

UI/UX

Search filter functionality in the Scene outliner. Details

Animation editor

Imported animated cameras in/out ranges setting Details
Undo/Redo actions for animation editor.

Modified

Geometry

Improved Scatter generation and update for detailed target and area include/exclude meshes.
Improved denoising of deforming geometry.

UI/UX

Scatter and fur objects can now be selected in the viewport.
Improved tooltips timing.

Denoiser

Updated DLSS-RR to version 3.7.

Performance

Improved playback performance with a small number of animated instances and a large number of non-animated instances.
Improved dynamic textures update performance.

Fixes

Geometry

Merging of animated scenes with different Up vector results in wrong orientation.

Chaos Cosmos

Wrong rendering of Cosmos assets exported from Maya.

UI/UX

Crash when modifying key shortcuts.
Disappearing popup dialogs for camera settings.
Hiding an object doesn't hide its descendants if they are procedural objects (scatter, fur, light).
NVENC failure when falling back from AV1 to H264 on older GPUs.

Installer

Installer doesn't proceed when there is no V-Ray License Service installed.

Chaos Vantage, v2.3.0

Official Release

Date - March 27, 2024

New Features

Materials

Support for rendering V-Ray Blend Material (BRDFLayered).

Render element

Support for the Multi Matte render element. Details

UI/UX

Added viewport toggle filter for the light gizmos. Details
Added option to improve desktop responsiveness while rendering. Details
Added information, in the status bar, for the host application used for Live Link.
Added ability to rename of objects created inside Vantage (Fur, Scatter, Lights, Multi Matte) with a context menu or double-click on object name.

Output

Added AV1 codec for video encoding, enabled by default (if supported by GPU). Details

Modified

Displacement

Improved memory used for displacement by varying tessellation level within a mesh.

Denoiser

Updated Intel Open Image Denoise to version 2.2.

Light Cache

Improved Light Cache to slightly better preserve low intensity samples.

UI/UX

Chaos Cosmos Browser UI responsiveness.

Fixes

Displacement

Random displacement when using unsupported secondary UV channel of the geometry object.

Scene states

Broken sub-states after dropping Environment texture.

Live Link

Wrong Live Link update for Nodes with unsupported materials.
Wrong rendering of Glossy Refraction with rotated texture during Live Link with Rhinoл

Lights

Sun azimuth rotation values to match geographical azimuth. Old saved .vantage files will be automatically updated to use new values on Save.

Collision

Missing "Height ratio" update when collision "Height tolerance" is changed.

Clouds

Wrong cloud shading with sun slightly under the horizon.

Lighting

Wrong lighting when rendering using direct light reservoir resampling and the scene contains a normal map.
Refraction artifacts when rendering with direct light reservoir resampling.

UI/UX

Disappearing toolbar in the Debug Log window after second opening.
Hiding of the HQ rendering dialog while "Always on top" is enabled.

Denoiser

Streak artifacts with Optix denoiser and multi GPU setup.
Broken temporal (“reduce flickering”) denoising in multi GPU mode.

Chaos Vantage, v2.2.3

Official Release

Date - February 21, 2024

New Features

Chaos Scatter

Support for scattering lights.
Support for VRayMultiSubTex.

Modified

Geometry

Improved loading speed of .vrscenes with a small number of very detailed meshes.

Fixes

Geometry

Slow mesh loading in Chaos Vantage 2.2.2.

Material

Crash when a texture is set as bump amount in a material.

Live Link

Artifacts on Chaos Scatter instances after changing the material of their source model.
Missing sun properties in Chaos Vantage during Live Link in version 2.2.2. Now sun properties are available only when the scene in the host app does not contain a sun light.
Incorrect lighting when an object is turned into mesh light during.

Camera

Resetting of "Aperture size" when reopening a scene.

Animation editor

Animation trim not taken into account in the Render setup dialog.

Chaos Vantage, v2.2.2

Official Release

Date - February 8, 2024

New Features

Chaos Scatter

Support for Chaos Scatter in V-Ray 6 for Maya, V-Ray 6.2 for SketchUp/Rhino.
Support for Edge Trimming in Chaos Scatter and Forest Pack in V-Ray 6.2 for 3ds Max.
Added Include models' children, Edge trimming, Altitude limitation, Preserve model rotation/scale and Look at target options in scatter object inside Chaos Vantage. Details

Modified

Camera

Improved camera imported from SketchUp - now view matches when using Two-Point Perspective.
increased camera limit from 100 to 1000.
Now Field of view does not change between cameras with different focus distance when Lens mode is set to Field of View.
Film Gate and Zoom settings are now hidden when Lens mode is Field of View.

Environment

Improved physical sky responsiveness.

Fixes

Denoiser

Brightness flicker issue when using a combination of DLSS Ray Reconstruction as Primary and NVidia Optix AI as Secondary denoisers
Ghosting in offline camera animation with Optix denoiser
DLSS preset not getting restored properly on Vantage startup
Motion blur not working with the DLSS modes that have upscaling different from 2x
Artifacts with "only final pass" denoising

Camera

Crash caused by reordering cameras in Camera lister.
Crash caused by leveling camera and then saving .vantage file.

Scene states

Crash when using sub state with deleted objects.

Displacement

Geometry gaps when using stochastic tiling and displacement.
Wrong displacement amount caused by object scaling.

Live Link

Wrong update of V-Ray Light mesh.
Flipped instanced geometries during Render animation with Chaos Vantage from Cinema 4D.

Chaos Cosmos

Slow scene load when download of missing Cosmos assets is canceled.

Scattering fog

Incorrect GI caused by Scatter fog with "affect secondary" on and "scatter GI" off.

UX/UI

Wrong size of checkbox size on high dpi displays.

Chaos Vantage, v2.2.1

Official Release

Date - December 15, 2023

New Features

Geometry

Support for material ID for displacement.

Fixes

Geometry

Crash with mesh file with thousands of voxels.
Displacement UV scale issue in SketchUp.
Crash with empty geometry with added displacement.
Broken displacement continuity with SketchUp scenes.

Materials

Clay mode removing displacement.
Clay mode removing light textures.

Live Link

Crash with animated ForestPro objects in 3Ds Max Live Link.

Chaos Vantage, v2.2.0

Official Release

Date - December 7, 2023

New Features

Geometry

Support for V-Ray Fur, Ornatrix, Hairfarm, and XGen hair.
Support for V-Ray Displacement.
Support for new V-Ray 6.2 Forest pack and Rail clone instancing.

Materials

Support for V-Ray Hair Next material.

Hardware

Support for Intel Meteor Lake iGPU.

Batch rendering

Render Setup options and render queue items are now stored in the .vantage file.

Live Link

Added Vantage Live Link settings dialog in 3Ds Max Vantage toolbar. Details

UI/UX

Implemented a warning and error count indicator in the status bar.

Rendering

Implemented a Firefly filter. Details

Modified

Geometry

Improved GPU peak memory usage when loading the geometry for a scene.
Improved check for failed geometry allocations.

DLSS

Improved DLSS - added 2.25x and 3x upscale modes (available when Secondary (when static) denoiser is set to Same as Primary).
Reduced memory usage.

Denoiser

Improved OptiX denoiser quality. Added a Legacy mode option to revert to old OptiX behavior. Details
Improved Intel denoiser: upgraded to 2.1.0, enabled GPU acceleration on Intel devices.

Scene States

Properly update the Scene States helper message on undo/redo.
Update scene state button now creates necessary sub-states if ORIGINAL SCENE or SAVED SCENE is currently chosen.
Detected changes for scene states when modifying a New file.

Improved Orthographic camera navigation. Now Navigate around cursor ray hit and Navigate around selection work properly.

UX/UI

Improved Viewport Fill - now filter is disabled when sharpness is set to 0.
Improved DPI scaling on 150% and similar ratios.

Fixes

Geometry

Crash when loading invalid Instancer2 with missing node reference.

UI/UX

Bug with wrong UI slider ranges.
Wrong trimming of the scene animation track.
Auto-exposure and noise mask overlay while using Intel GPUs for rendering.
Wrong reloading of a saved .vantage file, with imported .vrscene.
Animated cameras from imported vrscenes are not loaded with animation after reload of .vantage file.
Wrong camera grouping on import.

Textures

Missing texture UVs if their UVW generator is missing.

Output

Wrong baking of Exposure bias in EXR when exposure correction is disabled.
Camera white balance not getting saved in EXR.

Chaos Vantage, v2.1.1

Official Release

Date - October 10, 2023

New Features

View modes

Implemented viewport view modes: Beauty, Atmosphere, Background, Diffuse Filter Global Illumination, Lighting, Reflection, Refraction, Specular, Self-Illumination, Bumped Normals, Z-Depth, Material Mask, Object Mask . Details

UI/UX

Implemented status messages Info, Modified, Created, Switched for sub-states and scene states.

Modified

Textures

Support for mix_amount parameter for 3ds Max's Composite texture.

Fixes

Live link

Sequence from animated camera in Vantage not rendering when in Live Link.

Installation

Possible crash after downgrading Vantage.

Scene States

Incorrect Undo action on moved objects after applied scene state.

Chaos Vantage, v2.1.0

Official Release

Date - September 21, 2023

New Features

DLSS

Implemented NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 with Ray Reconstruction for interactive upscaling and denoising. GPU driver 537.13 or newer is required. Accessible from Edit > Preference > Render Defaults > Primary (when moving) > DLSS Ray Reconstruction. Details

Material

Support for refraction glossiness.

Hardware

Support for discrete Intel Arc GPUs (experimental).

Modified

Batch rendering

Render queue items are now stored between offline rendering sessions.

UI/UX

Camera thumbnail now updates automatically when scene states are changed for the camera.

Fixes

UI/UX

Crash when clicking the new version notification button in the menu bar.
Incorrect render resolution settings when adding multiple cameras using the Group enqueue mode and the <from camera> resolution preset.

Scene States

Incorrect Undo action on moved objects after applied scene state.
Incorrect NONE sub-state for Objects and Materials
Incorrect camera scene state in the camera scene states dropdown menu when editing render queue item.

Chaos Vantage, v2.0.1

Official Release

Date - August 03, 2023

New Features

Scene states

Smooth transition between scene states attached to cameras in the animation timeline.

Rendering

Added global self-illumination and emissive multiplier. Details
Support for 'crop' bitmap option where shading graphs are not supported.

Textures

Support for Bercon tiles texture.

Animation editor

Added 'Delete all' context menu command in animation editor. Details

Auto-exposure

Added auto-exposure clamp value option. Details

Modified

UX/UI

Improved the 'Update textures and meshes for current frame' button - now it is a toggle and when enabled automatically updates meshes and animated textures in the interactive viewport, when playback is not active.
Rearranged the rollouts in the Environment tab UI. Renamed Environment rollout to Sky, Cloud settings rollout to Clouds, Sun light rollout to Sun.
Moved Sky model settings from Sun rollout to Sky rollout, visible only when Environment mode is Physical sky.
The render progress dialog is now movable.

Performance

Improved memory usage when using a single GPU (around 30MB per megapixel) to not use double buffering.

Scene states

Renamed '<chosen scene state>' to '<current scene state>' in sequence rendering, keeping current changes during the offline rendering.
Added a SAVED SCENE state, updated on each "Save scene" or "Save Scene As..." action, preventing the previous accumulation of Auto Saved sub-states.
Improved the 'Create scene state' button - now it automatically creates all necessary sub-states where needed and is added in the top toolbar.
Renamed the 'DEFAULT' scene state to be 'ORIGINAL SCENE'

Output

Improved the output filename when Render elements are enabled in sequence rendering to be better recognized by external applications.

Gizmos

Improved the rendering of the navigation and placement helper objects.

Fixes

Batch rendering

Crash when updating Render queue cameras that to have same output file name.

Cloning

Crash when cloning scene objects multiple times.

Scene States

Crash when renaming a scene state to a specific name.
Missing scene state button in the camera widget when the scene is opened as a config only.

Live Link

Crash when opening home screen during Live Link. Now the 'Home sceen' button is disabled during Live Link.
Wrong overwriting of the -linkPort console argument by the INI file.

Denoiser

Crash when rendering high quality images/sequence with Intel denoiser selected but disabled.
Wrong results when rendering on AMD GPUs.
Missing denoiser when rendering with 'Only final pass' and pressing 'Stop and Save'.
Bug with the denoiser when rendering high quality images/sequences with dynamic textures.
Bug with NVIDIA AI temporal upscaling denoising in offline mode.

Lights

Wrong loading of mesh lights from vrscenes exported from SketchUp/Rhino/Revit.

Render elements

Wrong Normal render element, when "Scattering fog" and "scatter gi" are enabled.
Alpha not stored in EXR and PNG when using Intel denoiser or 'Separate files' is enabled. Now Alpha is always generated.

UX/UI

Frame scene/selection when using Orthographic camera.
Cinemascope resolution presets.
Wrong cropping of the light names in the UI.

Geometry

Double applying of the VRayScene transformation for Instance objects within a VRayScene.
Wrong rendering of imported VRayScene in C4D

Tools

“Export static scene” and0 “Export animated scene to Chaos Vantage” now work regardless of V-Ray render engine type in 3ds Max.

Motion blur

Motion blur not applied to whole image when using an upscaler.

Chaos Cosmos

Wrong redirection for the Cosmos login page.

Camera

Fixed the camera position in new empty scene.
Strange roll when switching cameras in specific scene.

Chaos Vantage, v2.0.0

Official Release

Date - June 27, 2023

New Features

Scene States

Implemented a Scene States system for creating, modifying and switching lights, materials, and objects variations. Each tab, that can utilize the states system has a Scene sub-state rollout and a new Scene States tab is added in the right side panel. Details

Render Elements

Implemented render elements(Lighting, Specular, Global Illumination, Reflection, Refraction, Self-Illumination, Atmosphere, Background, Diffuse Filter, Bumped Normals, Z-Depth, Velocity, Object Mask, Material Mask, Raw RGB) for compositing and masks. Details
Option for saving render elements as separate .png and .jpeg images.

Fog

Implemented light scattering( volumetric) fog. Details

Textures

Support for multiple UV channels.
Support for Vertex Color.
Support for all options of the Advanced mode of the Color Correction texture from 3ds Max.
Support for repeat/offset U/V for UVWGenMaya when not using shading graphs (e.g. for bump maps).

Animation

Support for .vrscene file with animated: vertices, vrmeshes, materials, textures and UV parameters, light parameters.
Support for animations outside the imported .vrscene range.

Denoiser

Implemented Intel Open Image Denoise denoiser (OIDN) for interactive Details and HQ rendering Details .

Performance

Implemented NVIDIA upscaling denoiser in interactive mode, requires driver 530 or newer. Details
Implemented reservoir resampling algorithm for direct lighting (RTXDI). Details
Render resolution scale option in interactive mode. Details

Chaos Scatter

Implemented Chaos Scatter for populating objects in the scene. Details

Hardware

Support for HDR displays.
Support for AMD GPUs (experimental).

Subdivision

Support for statically subdivided geometry objects from .vrscene.

Lights

Support for mesh lights (improved with reservoir resampling enabled).
Creation of lights(Point, Spot, Directional, Rectangle, Disc, Sphere, IES) from inside Vantage. Details
Support for instanced lights via Forest pack and Railclone.

Materials

Support for VRmat materials.
Support for V-Ray override material (MtlOverride).

UI/UX

Helper onscreen text for gizmo manipulators.
Rendering quality presets slider with 4 predefined presets.

Cloning

Implemented object cloning functionality with Ctrl+D.

Camera

Support for camera render resolution from .vrscene file.
Support for orthographic camera. Details
Camera grouping functionality.

Tools

Support for Vertex snapping when moving objects. Details
Added functionality to quickly place the pivot on the object's bounding box boundaries.

Home Screen

Implemented a Home Screen dialog with quick links, recent file and sample scenes. Details

Rendering

Implemented interval and specific frames or frames list for sequence rendering. Details

Geometry

Support for embedded vrscene nodes (VRayScene).

Modified

UX/UI

Revamped user interface and user experience with reorganized and regrouped parameters.

Fixes

Live Link

Double frame sequence rendering during Live Link with 'Render animation with Chaos Vantage'.

Geometry

Wrong placement of meshes at the origin when instanced by an Instancer in an animated .vrscene file.
Artifacts near the scene origin caused by self intersection.

Chaos Vantage, v1.8.6

Official Release

Date - June 1, 2023

Fixes

Live Link

Wrong first frame and duplicate frames during Live Link sequence rendering.
Reverted IPR render state to be enabled automatically when in Live Link

Texture

Bug when trying to load RawBitmapBuffer of an image above 16k resolution.

UX/UI

Fixed random crash when closing Vantage
Wrong denoiser description
Inconvenient soft range for the environment lighting intensity parameter
Camera panel width issue when "Enlarge font" is enabled

Chaos Vantage, v1.8.5

Official Release

Date - April 20, 2023

New features

Materials

Basic support for VRmat materials.

Textures

Support for alpha from bitmaps used in V-Ray material's opacity, exported from Maya.
Support for all options of the Advanced mode of the Color Correction texture from 3Ds Max.

UX/UI

Separated environment related properties from Lights tab into a dedicated Environment tab. Details
Added 'Open Scene Location' to File menu. Details

Geometry

Support for Edge trimming option introduced in Chaos Scatter with V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max, update 1.1.

Modified

UX/UI

Added scrollbar to Lights and Camera tabs.
- Fixed snapping manipulation precision.
Live Link UI mode - hides unusable tools and tabs when in Live Link session.
Delete button's icon changed.
Moved camera properties to default Undo Queue.
Allow the Delete key to be used in the viewport for deleting selected objects.
Remove 'Advanced Scene Settings' dialog from File menu, its settings are scattered in more convenient places(Camera tab, Render tab, Preferences dialog).
Merged 'Render animation with Chaos Vantage' and 'Render animation with Chaos Vantage, using Vantage UI' into a single 'Render Animation with Chaos Vantage' workflow. Details

Fixes

Clouds

Tiling artifacts for thin layer of clouds.

Live Link

Wrong undo actions for camera parameters during Live Link.

Lights

Textured rectangle lights don't match V-Ray when the light units are not set to default.

UX/UI

Deleting parent object in a hierarchy messes children's transformation and Undo history.
Render resolution not updating automatically when render Setup dialog is opened.

Chaos Vantage, v1.8.4

Official Release

Date - January 25, 2023

New features

Textures

Support for for repeat/offset u/v for 2D Placement texture from Maya when used in bump.

Modified

Rendering

Improved the metalness of a material to better match V-Ray.
Improved reflective caustics. Details
Improved the calculations for light power by area.

Fixes

Import/Load

Crash when importing/loading with animated proxy containing hair geometry.

Texture

Crash with EXR file loaded as a V-Ray Normal map in Bump slot material.
Texture blurriness when W coordinate is different than 0.

Lights

New Default Vantage sun being created each time a non-vrscene is appended.
Light intensity to accept only positive values.

Auto-exposure

Difference in image brightness when using Auto-exposure and different rendering resolutions.
Visual artifacts with fog and Auto-Exposure.

UX/UI

Restoring of maximized main window.
Active pixels overlay not showing active pixels.
Stereo Spherical and Stereo Cube camera types not updating correctly render resolution based on aspect ratio.

Command line

Command line rendering with video output file generates separate files.

Rendering

Camera types not taken into account, when using sequence rendering.

Batch rendering

Wrong FOV for cameras of the render Queue.

Live Link

Render animation with Chaos Vantage, from 3Ds Max, doesn't start rendering when a Live link connection is not established.

Chaos Vantage, v1.8.3

Official Release

Date - October 26, 2022

Modified

Performance

Improved performance on the RTX 4090 GPU

UX/UI

Increased default value of "Max. sec. ray intensity" from 20 to 200.
Grouped exposure, highlight burn and contrast in Exposure group.

Fixes

Live Link

Crash related to bump/normal mapping in a live link from V-Ray 6 for SketchUp.

Lights

Choppy sun and clouds animation for animated geolocation.

Materials

Wrong rendering of scenes that contain VRayOverride material.

Path resolver

Incorrect assets being loaded when resolving paths.

UX/UI

Wrong resolution for 720p preset in the HQ dialog
Missing startup scene.

Render elements

Missing render elements in EXR file.

Chaos Vantage, v1.8.2

Official Release

Date - October 13, 2022

New Features

NVidia AI Denoiser

Option to denoise only final sampling pass in offline rendering. Details

Modified

Environment

Implemented a default Vantage sun so Physical Sun and Sky option is available in the Environment mode drop-down.

UX/UI

Added "Always On Top" button in the top toolbar and shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+T). Details
Added outlines to rollouts.
Improved the snapping behavior for manipulation gizmos.
Added sliders below parameters with soft range and CTRL(snaps to 1/1000 of the slider's soft range value), SHIFT(snaps to 1/10 of the slider's soft range value) and CTRL+SHIFT(snaps to 1/100 of the slider's soft range value) modifier keys for finer control.
Synchronized value defaults and ranges between Vantage UI and "Render animation via Live Link" dialog in 3Ds Max .

Path resolver

Improved path resolver now searches every subfolder next to the imported file, for assets.

Motion blur

Reduced artifacts from motion blur

Denoiser

Improved Vantage denoiser result in refraction and flickering object edges.
Improved refraction quality when switching between Vantage and NVidia AI in Combined denoiser mode.
Improved reflection detail with NVidia AI denoiser.

Auto-exposure

Improved auto-exposure that accumulate samples in dark areas (single GPU only).

Fixes

Rendering

Visual popping of textures with "Dynamic textures" option enabled.
Wrong blending of the sun disk with the ground albedo.
Wrong alignment of the sky texture's horizon line .
Temporal denoiser and postprocessing passes breaking with dynamic textures.
Reduce flickering being used when disabled in High quality rendering.

Auto-exposure

Crash when starting an offline render with "Auto exposure" enabled on systems with 2 GPUs.

Command line

Crash when rendering with -denoiser=0.

Live Link

Hang when the Live Link drops during a sequence rendering.
Random abort while rendering sequence using "Render animation using Chaos Vantage".
Live Link in 3ds Max doesn't start with the first click on the Start/Stop button.
Distributed rendering in 3ds Max to always deactivate when the Live Link stop button is pressed.

Motion blur

Not applying to moving objects when using "Render animation using Chaos Vantage".
Not rendering in "Render animation using Chaos Vantage" Maxscript.

Import/Load

Errors caused by loading empty string texture filenames.
Scene animation range one frame shorter when loading .vantage file.

UX/UI

UI bug when switching between 'Focal length' and 'Field of view'.
Transform manipulation and snapping windows not being disabled in Live Link.
Inconsistent spinner value changes on secondary monitor .
Wrong rotation range for transform type-ins.
Chaos Vantage starting at invalid coordinates when monitor layout changes between sessions .

Render elements

Missing velocity in EXR.
Alpha getting lost in EXR when motion blur is enabled.

Chaos Vantage, v1.8.1

Official Release

Date - July 19, 2022

New Features

Color Corrections

Implemented Chromatic aberration effect in the Post tab. Details

Modified

License server

Updated to latest Chaos License Server 6.0.0

Cloud system

Reduced distortion of the contrails used in the cloud system.

Fixes

Live Link

3ds Max hangs during Live Link caused by the cryptomatte render element.
Motion blur not rendering offline animation through Live Link from 3ds Ma.

Motion blur

Not rendering in offline renders when dynamic textures are enable.
Not rendering in "Render animation using Chaos Vantage" Maxscript.

UX

Weird dialog placement on secondary monitor

Chaos Vantage, v1.8.0

Official Release

Date - July 14, 2022

New Features

Clouds

Implemented Cloud system to the Physical Sky environment model. Details

Color Corrections

Implemented Filmic Tonemapper(Hable, AMPAS), Hue/Saturation and Contrast color corrections in the Post tab. Details

Textures

Support for animated textures(image sequences)files. Have to manually update on desired frame using Update sequence button() when not in Live Link or offline rendering. Details

Performance

Option for dynamic textures to reduce GPU memory usage. Details
Experimental option to increase FPS by decreasing sampling quality. Details
Option to pause rendering after reaching a certain sample level. Details

Overlays

Added composition grid overlays: Rule of Thirds, Central Cross, Golden Spiral, Golden Ratio and Diagonals. Available from the Composition guides overlay ()button in the top toolbar. Details

Modified

Output

EXR files now store camera exposure.

UX/UI

Shortcut for HQ render dialog opening. Default is Ctrl+R.
Functionality to copy the viewport to the clipboard with Ctrl+C shortcut.
Implemented sliders for Color Corrections in the Post tab.
Improved the UI responsiveness while the HQ Render setup dialog is open.
Separated Bump and Normal mapping render options.
Disabled file actions (e.g. Open Scene, Reload Scene) while in Live Link session.
Misleading error message when a scene file is corrupted.
Wrong reporting of geometry statistics in various cases (live link, deleting objects, V-Ray Proxy).

Tools

Render Animation with Chaos Vantage UI shows the correct FPS from Max.

Fixes

.vantage file

'Original camera' thumbnail not being properly displayed after loading file.

Performance

GPU memory for a VRayProxy not being freed after the proxy is deleted.

Chaos Vantage, v1.7.4

Official Release

Date - June 13, 2022

Modified

UX

Improved scroll handling for debug log window

Fixes

Output

Crash when saving to EXR files.

UX

Strange symbols in debug log after filter search.
Duplicate file close confirmation dialog.

Chaos Vantage, v1.7.3

Official Release

Date - June 08, 2022

Modified

Live Link

Added support for V-Ray 6 (beta) builds.

Exposure

Auto-exposure smoothing over time in High Quality sequence rendering. It is determined from FPS and Auto exposure time. Set Auto exposure time to 0 for previous behavior.

UI

Improved message log UI:
- Added button in the status bar for easier access.
- Search filter now filters and shows only lines that have the input string.
- Added Filter menu to specify the type of message to show in the log window.
- Added Wrap lines button.
- Added Clear log widow button.
- Added Open log location button.

Fixes

Performance

CPU memory leak when uploading textures.
Potential delay in version check during startup

Live Link

Files not saving with Non-ascii filename characters when using 'Render animation with Chaos Vantage"

Chaos Vantage, v1.7.2

Official Release

Date - May 19, 2022

New feature

Exposure

Implemented Auto-exposure functionality. Can be toggled via the button in top toolbar. Details

Texture

Support for negative values for textures.

Fixes

Installer

Embedded Chaos Cosmos installer downgrades newer installed version

Lights

Crash when deleting grouped lights

Live Link

Camera type is not consistent throughout the entire animation sequence when using 'Render animation with Chaos Vantage, using Vantage UI'

Chaos Vantage, v1.7.1

Official Release

Date - April 13, 2022

New feature

Texture

Partial support for V-Ray Edges texture - rounded corners are not implemented

Modified

.vantage

Geolocated sun animation is saved in the .vantage file

Support for mapping Chaos Vantage shortcuts through the SpaceMouse/3DConnexion controller

UX

'Render setup' dialog retains settings when closed and between sessions. 'Save defaults' checkbox is removed from UI
Light gizmos now have consistent line width and size at different render resolution and viewport size

UI

Upper limit for the number of light tree samples is increased to 16

Fixes

Environment

Wrong overriding of the current environment texture when using "Open Scene as Config Only..."

Chaos Vantage, v1.7.0

Official Release

Date - March 30, 2022

New Features

Textures

Support for normal maps

Clay mode

Added white/clay mode override in the Material tab with options to preserve original material's reflection, refraction, bump, opacity and self illumination Details

Ambient occlusion

Added global ambient occlusion option in the Lights tab Details

Sun animation

Implemented Animated Geolocated sun and Sun track in the animation editor for easy sun time lapse animation Details

Added New option in the File menu to create a new empty scene Details

Support for 3DConnexion SpaceMouse controller

Supported output formats

Implemented .jpg/.jpeg file type output

Modified

Ambient light

Added ambient light color swatch Details
Increased ambient light intensity limit to 1000000

UX

Implemented 'Camera enqueu mode' in Render setup dialog to add all scene cameras at once in the render queue Details
Shows .vantage file name in recent file list and title bar after saving scene
Camera clipping planes are now taken into account when determining the dolly/orbit/zoom pivot point
Abort button now aborts the entire render queue
Render dialog retains render queue when closed
Sequence mode is not allowed when no sequence is available

Fixes

.vantage file

The .vrscene environment texture is not used when loading a .vrscene with an associated .vantage file

Memory

Memory leak when HQ rendering with denoiser

Live link

Changing a VRayLight from Plane to Dome not updating correctly

Camera

Crash when renaming a camera

Geometry

Crash when deleting objects

Chaos Vantage, v1.6.2

Official Release

Date - January 11, 2022

New feature

Texture

Support for the "auto" color space transfer function of VRayBitmap

Modified

.vantage

When the root .vrscene is not found with its absolute path it's searched for in the folder containing the .vantage file

Fixes

Multi GPU

Line artifacts in interactive mode when using multiple GPUs

UI

Duplicate objects showing up in object list (with scenes from Maya)

Memory

Crash when out of GPU memory and the scene has a rectangle light with a texture

Tools

Issues in "Import changes from Vantage" MAX script:
- Importing cameras from a .vantage file does not set the frame rate
- Unexpected values for the "Exposure value" keys

Live Link

Live link failing to start when "Save strings in legacy non-scene files using UTF8" is enabled in 3ds Max

.vantage

Error when using "Save scene settings as default"

UX

Undo action not working properly after a select-all(CTRL+A) action in the objects list

Chaos Vantage, v1.6.1

Official Release

Date - December 16, 2021

Modified

UX

Place tool now locks the selected object's current orientation while SHIFT key is pressed
A sample HDR file is loaded when opening non-vrscene files

UI

Added progress indication when importing FBX, OBJ, 3DS, PLY, STL, TER, DAE, GLTF file formats

Textures

Better parity when using the VRayUVWRandomizer in V-Ray for Cinema4D

Non-vrscene files

Default up direction (now Y) for OBJ and 3DS files

Fixes

Live Link

Animation rendering started with Vantage UI renders the same frame over and over
Animation synchronization bug in 3ds Max

.vantage file

Deleting an instance of an appended scene resulting in an incorrectly saved .vantage file

Memory

Excessive shared GPU memory usage with certain large .OBJ scenes

Environment

HDR rotation not importing with vrscene generated from Revit

Non-vrscene files

TerraGen (.ter) files doesn't import

UX

Camera view getting reset to the original camera after placing an asse
Pressing ESC while using Place tool makes selected object to be unselectable
Issues when switching between Still and Sequence in the Render setup dialog

Chaos Vantage, v1.6.0

Official Release

Date - December 06, 2021

New Features

Cosmos materials

Support for Cosmos materials
Remove unused cosmos materials option in the Material list Details

Batch rendering

Support for batch rendering. Still image and Sequence jobs can be added to a render queue Details

UX

Import option in the File menu for easier importing of supported file formats

Supported formats

Experimental support for opening and importing FBX, OBJ, 3DS, PLY, STL, TER, DAE, GLTF file formats

Modified

UX

The Snapshot and Sequence dialogs are now united in a single Render dialog Details
Animation frame range setting in the Render dialog
Render time estimation in the Progress window
Non-zero default values for transform snapping. New defaults are:
- Translate 10 scene units
- Rotate 15 degrees
- Scale 0.1

Object list improvements:

CTRL + A selects all objects, including children

SHIFT + Expand/Collapse applies to children too

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DELETE key deletes the selected object
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SHIFT + DELETE key deletes the selected object and its children

All selected items are expanded/collapsed with the item currently expanding/collapsing

Performance

Optimized GPU memory usage:
- Light Cache is now several times smaller
- Unused textures are unloaded from the GPU

Live Link

Creation and updating of textures for lights

Fixes

Textures

VRayMultiTexture and VRayTriplanar randomization options not working with scenes from V-Ray 5, update 2

Memory

Crash after loading a new scene after a failed memory allocation

Multi GPU

Line artifacts with multi GPU after opening the material browser

Chaos Vantage, v1.5.3

Official Release

Date - November 11, 2021

New Features

Material tab

Material name searching, type filtering and sorting(name and creation)
Select the material of the selected object button

UX

Drag-and-drop material assignment with preview
Alt+drag-and-drop replaces material on all object with same material
Ctrl+drag-and-drop assigns material to objects and its children

Import

Support for ply, obj, bin, geo, hclassic, bgeo, bhclassic, prt, and partial (no animation, hair and particles) support for alembic files

Modified

UX

Cosmos browser doesn't show importer choice inside Chaos Vantage when multiple importers are running
Motion blur is not allowed for non-perspective (Cube 6x1, Spherical and stereo) cameras.

Performance

Optimized memory usage of texture files with a single color
Optimized memory usage for material previews

Live Link

Implemented HDRI environment and dome light creation and updating

Fixes

Live Link

Several parameters not working in the Render Animation via Live Link dialog in 3ds Max

Console

Incorrect frame rate when rendering through console

.vantage file

Animation editor settings not getting saved to .vantage file

Material tab

Wrong material thumbnails after loading a new scene

Chaos Vantage, v1.5.2

Official Release

Date - October 21, 2021

Fixes

Snapshot

"Render High Quality Snapshot"not showing progress bar

Camera

Crash with overwritten vrscene camera when used in animation

Chaos Vantage, v1.5.1

Official Release

Date - October 20, 2021

Fixes

Animation editor

Render sequence renders only current fame
Pause element not exported properly
Scene camera in camera animation track cancelling other object animations

Live Link

Incorrect transformation of objects, lights and cameras from Cinema 4D

Chaos Vantage, v1.5.0

Official Release

Date - October 19th, 2021

Please note that .vantage files saved with version 1.5.0 and newer are not compatible with older versions.

New Features

Place tool

Implemented Place tool mode for the Move tool with center cube to place objects on surface based on its normals Details

Camera

Support for per camera resolution

Command Line

Command line arguments using vantage_console.exe wrapper Details

Environment

Flip horizontally option for the environment texture.

Material tab UI

Material tab with thumbnails: Details
- Render materials thumbnails
- Preview scene settings
- Number of columns option

Output

Top/Bottom option for Stereo Cube 6x1 and Stereo spherical outputs
FOV X and FOV Y have now decimal values instead of single integer

Modified

Live Link

Render animation in Live Link session from 3ds Max (requires V-Ray for 3ds Max upcoming update)

Lights

Save all lights parameters in .vantage file

UI

Replaced denoiser slider in toolbar with an On/Off button when using the NVidia AI denoiser or Combined denoiser

Camera

Enable imported cameras to be drag-able to Camera animation track

Animation editor

Improved animation editor: Details
- Shot editor mode
- Auto transition
- Time format - min, frames, combined
- Force camera resolution for animation
- Loop button
- Create button before,after of selected elements, after the last element in the track, and on the play head line on transitions with options

Installer

Removed Install V-Ray for 3ds Max Live link scripts option and from ||Customize|| > Customize User Interface > Toolbars > Chaos Vantage in 3ds Max
Added option to associate . Vantage files so that they can be opened with Chaos Vantage from the explorer

Fixes

UI

Wrong display of object hierarchy
UI font bug when in non-latin OS
Closing Cosmos Browser from 'X' doesn't update UI

Camera

Automatic vertical tilt doesn't work correctly with scenes with Y-up axis

Lights

Environment map is flipped from Cinema 4D
Environment map not importing when "TexRGBTintMax"is used to color correct it

Multi GPU

Black spots in denoised offline render on multi-GPU

vrscene file

Incorrect transforms import of meshes in a hierarchy from Cinema 4D when using Cloner in Multi Instance mode
Incorrect node visibility animation when some frames don't have a keyframe from Cinema 4D

Crash

Crash on app launch with external GPUs

Chaos Vantage, v1.4.2

Official Release

Date - July 21st, 2021

New Features

Camera

Support camera near and far clipping planes Details

Output

Support for saving EXR (16-bit) images - the main image is linear, without color corrections and post-effects. Available channels: Bumped Normals, Depth, Screen Velocity, Albedo, Additional (Background & Lights)

Materials

Basic support for the V-Ray Car Paint 2 Material

Modified

Materials

Improve support for the V-Ray Car Paint Material

Fixes

Output

Light gizmos are rendered in final sequence
Chaos Vantage renders different frame number compared to Max
Chaos Vantage renders 1 frame less than the full timeline

Animation editor

Animation timeline cannot display more than 1 transient clips on the right
Cannot select transient clip on the right of the timeline

Vantage file

Can't save vantage file when path contains non-Latin characters

Crash

Crash on app launch with external GPUs

Chaos Vantage, v1.4.1

Official Release

Date - July 2nd, 2021

New Features

Textures

Support for Substance textures
Support for SketchUp native textures and colorization

UX

Implemented UI to specify rendering device(s) Details

Geometry

Support for animated object visibility from a .vrscene file

Modified

UX

Improved snapping and transforms windows:
- Added 'S' as shortcut to toggle snap on/off
- Don't hide the dialogue when exiting free look mode and the window has been opened beforehand
- Spinboxes display scene units
Improved Offline render UI:
- Added resolution preset
- Added aspect ratio control

Geometry

Support for Edge boundary checking in Forest Pack

Tools

Support for importing camera parameters(static and animated) with 'Import changes from Vantage' tool in 3ds Max
Imported cameras are now named [VANTAGE FILE NAME]_[CAMERA NAME]_###

Fixes

Camera

Auto vertical tilt doesn't keep vertical lines in camera transitions
Camera rolls while transitioning between two upright positions

UX

Collision detection regression
"Orbit" and "Look around" navigation are uncontrollable when on second monitor and >150% dpi scale
Scene up vector is not applied correctly to merged .vrscenes/cosmos assets

Materials

2-Sided material doesn't work correctly in SketchUp/Rhino/Revit/Cinema4D

Textures

Crash with TexMulti when it has an unsupported sub-texture connected to it
Vantage doesn't match V-Ray when TexMulti has an empty textures list and random hue/sat/gamma

Tools

"Overwrite existing" in "Import changes from Vantage" doesn't work for Chaos Vantage animated camera
Camera Interpolations imported with "Import changes from Vantage" don't match camera interpolations in Chaos Vantage

Chaos Vantage, v1.4.0

Official Release

Date - June 17th, 2021

New Features

Textures

Support for the V-Ray MultiSubTex
Support for MultiTexture(CGSource)
Support for ForestColor

UX

Transforms manipulation window
Transform snapping

Modified

Textures

Extended support for V-Ray Triplanar texture - Random texture offset, Random texture rotation, Random frame rotation, Random axis, Random mode
Extended support for V-Ray UVWRandomizer texture - Randomize by name, face ID, render ID, element, instance ID, object ID, particle ID, node handle

Fixes

Camera

Difference in FOV and Focal length values between Max and Vantage
Film gate and Focal length not importing correctly with multiple cameras
Merged cameras get their focal length set from scene Home camera

UX

Drag-n-drop gizmo isn't placed correctly with dedpi > 100%
Inconsistency in Transparency overlay between NVIDIA AI and Combined/Vantage denoisers
Focus distance shortcut functions like Pick focus tool - now behaves as a virtual focus distance slider by moving the mouse left and right.

Denoiser

Super bright pixels become black with NVIDIA AI denoiser

vrscene

Wrong position of objects with merged vrscenes with different meters_scale
Light gizmos scale depending on .vrscene's scale

Chaos Vantage, v1.3.0

Official Release

Date - May 20th, 2021

New Features

Materials

Support for the V-Ray 2 Sided Material

Denoiser

Implemented NVIDIA AI denoiser

Objects

Support for object camera/reflection/refraction/overall visibility and cast/receive shadows properties

Camera

Support for animated camera parameters from .vrscene - Focus distance, FOV, Focal length, Zoom factor, ISO, F-number, Shutter speed, Vertical/Horizontal Tilt/Shift

Modified

UX

Implemented customizable shortcuts
Moved Mouse and Keyboard Shortcuts menu under Edit menu
Moved Navigation preset in Mouse and Keyboard Shortcuts menu
Statistics for required additional memory in High Quality Snapshot and High Quality Sequence windows
Input validation of input fields in UI with Enter, Tab or Space keys

Fixes

Live Link

Incorrect update of materials when enabling/disabling certain features

Lights

Mesh lights imported as point lights with incorrect intensity - they are now ignored instead

Output

Wrong alpha channel when Light Cache is enabled

Chaos Vantage, v1.2.1

Official Release

Date - April 27, 2021

New Features

Materials

Support for the "Reflect on back side" option in the V-Ray Material
Support for the "Double-sided" option in the V-Ray Material

Modified

UX

Enabled focus picker while in Live Link

Fixes

Materials

Refract IOR affects reflections when Fresnel IOR is unlocked
Glossy fresnel is not correct when using texture for Fresnel IOR

Chaos Cosmos Browser

Wrong scaling of Chaos Cosmos assets when imported to a scene with non-centimeter scale

Chaos Vantage, v1.2.0

Official Release

Date - April 14, 2021

New Features

Materials

Support for Clear coat in V-Ray Material
Support for glossy Fresnel reflections

Camera

Support for importing multiple cameras from one .vrscene file

Environment

Background override option to affect refraction and mirror reflection rays

Output

Support for saving .PNG files with alpha channel

Modified

UX

Animation FPS in Vantage is set based on .vrscene
Asset filtering options in the merge scene dialogue on import
Disabled tools in the UI that can't be used during Live Link
Added specific gizmo shapes for lights depending on their type

.vrscene

Improved performance when loading animated .vrscene

Fixes

Live Link

Layer and object visibility changes breaking multi-materials in Live Link

Lights

Broken disc and rectangle light when loading a new scene after disabling lights

Animation

Precision issues with animation of rotating objects

Chaos Vantage, v1.1.1

Official Release

Date - March 04, 2021

Fixes

.vrscene

Drop-Merge .vrscene doesn't place it to origin
Freeze with .vrscenes containing multiple Nodes with same full name

Camera orbiting and transitions are incorrect for scenes from V-Ray for Cinema 4D

Sun

Fixed Sky is not set correctly for scenes with Y up vector

UX

Strange artifacts in viewport when using 'Flip Up Axis Y'
Camera tab widens when opening 'Advanced Resolution Settings'

Chaos Vantage, v1.1.0

Official Release

Date - March 04, 2021

New Features

Chaos Cosmos

Initial Chaos Cosmos asset library integration

Sun

Geolocated Sun positioning

Improvements

.vrscene

Improved support for .vrscenes coming from Cinema 4D

Materials

Support for MtlMulti IDs larger than 31

UX

Option to display advanced camera parameters as rollouts instead of popups (now default)
Removed limited object translation distance
Light source gizmos now visualize rotation

Fixes

Live Link

Very rare case where Live Link may start with missing objects

High Quality Render

Motion blur not working on multiple GPUs
First frame of a HQ sequence having big motion blur

Textures

Scenes from V-Ray for Sketchup 5.1 failing to render any textures

UX

Viewport selection not working at specific resolutions
Transform tools not respecting the single/group select mode
Geometry disappearing after scaling it down to zero scale
Advanced camera parameter popup not hiding when Camera tab is hidden
Overlapping advanced camera parameter popups

Chaos Vantage, v1.0.2

Official Release

Date - February 02, 2021

New Features

UI

Added Fog max opacity option

Fixes

Live Link

Refractive materials render completely black with live link in Maya
Update logic issues

High Quality Render

Performance regression when high quality rendering is paused and resumed

Driver

ColorCorrection texture and UVWGenChannel issues caused by 46x.xx series drivers

Chaos Vantage, v1.0.1

Official Release

Date - January 19, 2021

New Features

UI

Added option for larger UI font

Modified

UI

Tweaks of camera's Advanced parameters windows pop up behaviour
Disabled video "Output file type" when rendering sequence with non-perspective camera

Fixes

Live Link

Textures coming from V-Ray for Maya not working correctly

CPU

Crash when working with CPU with very high thread count

Multi GPU

Performance regression with noise threshold

Chaos Vantage, v1.0.0

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

Project Lavina is now Chaos Vantage.

Project Lavina Beta, v0.6.0

Beta Release

Date - November 04, 2020

New Features

Live Link

Experimental 3ds Max to Lavina live link

Texture

Support for Triplanar texture

UI

Light gizmos for easy selection of non-area lights when a transform tool is selected

Config .vrdx

Loading saved Lavina files(.vrdx) now loads associated .vrscenes

Modified

GPU

Improved out-of-memory protection for GPU resources

UI

Improved indicator for render state - RENDERING, PAUSED, CAM REC., LIVE LINK

Fixes

Camera

Issue when saving camera slot shortcut
'Fill' option squashing image when using a portrait aspect ratio

Lights

Non top level lights in a hierarchy can not be disabled

UI

App window not returning to proper size after a spherical or cube offline render

Texture

Opacity map not working when the texture's alpha channel is used

Project Lavina Beta, v0.5.1

Beta Release

Date - October 08, 2020

New Features

Camera

Added Rotation Focus method to Stereo Spherical and Stereo Cube 6x1 camera types
Add support for import of Exposure value in Physical Camera

Modified

.vrscenes

Improved handling of back face materials from V-Ray 5 for SketchUp .vrscenes

Fixes

UI

Cloning selected objects also duplicate scene lights in Lights tab

CPU

D3D error on machine with large cpu thread count

Project Lavina Beta, v0.5.0

Beta Release

Date - September 03, 2020

New Features

Camera

Added Cube 6x1, Spherical and Spherical Stereoscopic camera types to render images and sequences

Modified

NVLink

Improved performance with GPUs set with NVlink connection

Fixes

Animation Editor

Camera thumbnails in timelines are squashed with different aspect ratio

Camera

Camera jolts when navigating from a stored camera with a roll
Frame selected/scene shortcut doesn't work
Home camera not loading correct FOV

Texture

Forest color texture importing black.

Project Lavina Beta, v0.4.4

Beta Release

Date - August 19, 2020

New Features

Camera

Tilt and shift corrections for Physical Camera

Modified Features

UX

Color picker dialogue can be moved around

Fixes

.vrscene

Incorrect scaling when merging .vrscenes exported with different meter scale

Camera

Switching between stored cameras with different FOV results in a jump

Project Lavina Beta, v0.4.3

Beta Release

Date - August 03, 2020

New Features

Lights

Support for texture in V-Ray Plane/Rectangle light
Support for V-Ray Disk/Ellipse light

License Server

License server as part of the installation

GPU

GPU driver check for currently unsupported and recommended drivers

Modified Features

Camera

Improved Camera roll navigation action

UX

"Check for updates" button in Help menu
Build date and time info in About dialog

Fixes

Animation Editor

Transient clip in animation editor cannot be selected or modified
Pivot point not moving with object when animated from imported .vrscene

Denoiser

Artifacts around very bright light source
Reflection artifacts when using two GPUs

Project Lavina Beta, v0.4.2

Beta Release

Date - July 22, 2020

Fixes

Video Driver

Startup error (D3D error) with 450 series NVidia drivers

Project Lavina Beta, v0.4.1

Beta Release

Date - July 10, 2020

Fixes

Camera

Physical camera parameters not syncing when switching camera slots
Physical camera parameters scaling erroneously when loading from vrdx file

Animation Editor

Physical cameras not interpolating correctly in animation editor when using FoV
'Aperture size' interpolation in animation editor

Denoiser

Denoiser issue when using more than one GPU

Project Lavina Beta, v0.4.0

Beta Release

Date - July 09, 2020

Download VRay_LavinaImportChanges.mzp

New Features

Camera

Physical camera parameters
Camera roll functionality

Material

Support for metalness (BRDFVrayMtl)

UI

Pivot point selection button to top toolbar
Mouse precision toggle button

MAXScript

Import Changes from Lavina MAX script reimporting multiple cameras and animations from Project Lavina back to 3Ds Max. Details

Modified Features

Denoiser

Improved denoiser:
- Details from small objects and shadows are less blurry
- Reduced halo/bloom effect around objects

Animation Editor

Improved UX :
- Increase the pickup radius for selecting thin areas - timeline marker, clip edges.
- Make the rightmost 20px of a clip with two drag-able controls.
- Transient clips are not resizable when dragged, only their position change.
- Transient clips have a better thicker line indicator
- Increase the limit of the "Def. duration" spinner to 1000 (approx. 10 sec @ 90fps )

Project Lavina Beta, v0.3.1

Beta Release

Date - July 01, 2020

Fixes

Imported animated sun from .vrscene not being animated in Lavina

Project Lavina Beta, v0.3.0

Beta Release

Date - June 26, 2020

New Features

Added Animation Editor (experimental)
Added Light grouping(instancing) on imported lights
Added support for V-Ray Sun and Sky models
Added Noise threshold option
Added Support for Simple(environment) light portal
Added support for CommonTexture and MappedTexture set of texture parameters: Crop, Place, AlphaSource, MonoChannelOutput, RGBChannelOutput, Invert, OutputAmount, Clamp, RGBOffset, RGBLevel

Modified Features

Improved Color Picker - interactive updates, color temperature, color presets, color range options
Improved UI:
- Last snapshot render time information
- Selecting a light focuses it in the light lister
Improved visual parity between Lavina and V-Ray

Project Lavina Beta, v0.2.3

Beta Release

Date - May 07, 2020

New Features

Added new Camera list with thumbnails and set, delete and reorder functionality
Added support for Directional, Omni and Spot lights from 3Ds Max
Added support for Instanced objects from Maya/Modo/Houdini
Added "Display to render ratio" control in the toolbar

Modified Features

Improved navigation - Selection Pivot Type
Improved denoiser - Artifacts with motion blur with fast moving objects are reduced
Improved denoiser - textures behind refractive objects are less blurry
Improved UI - RMB to reset value to default

Project Lavina Beta, v0.2.2

Beta Release

Date - April 09, 2020

New Features

Support for IES lights
Support for Spot lights from Maya/Modo/Katana/Cinema4D/Sketchup/Rhino
Object pivot import and manipulation
Move Pivot tool
Navigation target type option - Ray hit or Camera target

Modified Features

Improved navigation - gizmo for orbit pivot and zoom point

Bug Fixes

Fixed bug with rotation and scaling in local space

Project Lavina Beta, v0.2.1

Beta Release
Date - March 26, 2020

Modified Features

Improved denoiser blending - added simple adaptivity to raw/denoised blending to filter out extreme noise
Improved camera navigation
Improved camera transitions with quadratic interpolation function instead of linear
Improvement: Environment image is now cleared when loading a new scene
Improvement: Removed automatic cycle back to first camera when in "Camera" animation mode
Improved UI - removed Modifier key option and include them in navigation preset
Improved UI - Shortcuts update according to navigation preset

Project Lavina Beta, v0.2.0

Beta Release

Date - March 12, 2020

New Features

Support for opacity maps in "clip" mode. Only bitmaps are supported
Separate background option for camera rays instead of the "environment" color/image
Importing of Dome light texture as Environment
Navigation presets: Max, Maya, Sketchup
"Run" when in Free-Look mode

Modified Features

Improved rendering of refractive objects on reflective surfaces
Improved light cache - it is cleared when a render setting is changed
Improved animation experience: Scene, Walkthrough and Cameras mode
Improved scene navigation experience
Improved status bar

Bug Fixes

Fixed denoiser silhouette artifacts
Fixed collision enabled only in Free-Look mode
Fixed undo action for some local space rotations

Content

Space Tools

What's New

Chaos Vantage, v2.5.2

Modified

Geometry

UI/UX

Fixes

UI/UX

Camera

Scatter

Rendering

Geometry

Environment

Material

Chaos Vantage, v2.5.1

Modified

Geometry

Fixes

Virtual Reality

Fur

Chaos Vantage, v2.5.0

New Features

Virtual Reality

Animation

Materials

Geometry

Rendering

UI/UX

Color Corrections

Modified

Decals

UI/UX

Environment

Performance

Vantage file

Installer

Fixes

Environment

Decals

Textures

UI/UX

Vantage file

Chaos Vantage, v2.4.0

New Features

Geometry

Materials

Textures

Color corrections

Camera

Lights

UI/UX

Animation editor

Modified

Geometry

UI/UX

Denoiser

Performance

Fixes

Geometry

Chaos Cosmos

UI/UX

Installer

Chaos Vantage, v2.3.0

New Features

Materials

Render element

UI/UX

Output

Modified

Displacement

Denoiser

Light Cache

UI/UX

Fixes

Displacement

Scene states

Live Link

Lights

Collision