Chaos Cosmos Browser

Chaos Cosmos Content System delivers a 3D content library of high-quality 3D content selected from the rich Chaos ecosystem. It allows you to browse, place, and render 3D assets in your projects. The asset categories span across Furniture, Accessories, People, Vegetation, Vehicles, HDRIs, and more. In addition, the assets work seamlessly in the different Chaos renderers (V-Ray, V-Ray GPU, Vantage, Corona, Vision, and Envision) and host apps (Houdini, 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Maya, Blender, Revit, Rhino, and Sketchup).

To start using the Chaos Cosmos content, please follow the steps below:

1. Click the Cosmos button from the V-Ray Shelf to open the Chaos Cosmos Browser. Alternatively, go to V-Ray menu > Import > Cosmos Browser.

2. Click the Sign in button. Then enter your Chaos credentials.

3. Use the menu or the Search tab to find assets. You can additionally choose between different Categories.

An option to show the Downloaded assets only is also available.

The filters help you refine your search by date, popularity, color, and space.

4. Use the  button to enable the Multi-Selection Mode. In this mode, you can select several assets to download, update or delete at once.

Once you choose an asset, you have to download it. Hover over it and click the Download  button.

Another way to download an asset is to click on it. This reveals additional information. You can see the category/space/color of the asset and other additional information. Other connected assets can be filtered by clicking on any of the additional information parameters. Click the Download button to download the asset.

All downloaded assets are marked with  symbol. They are available in the Downloaded category.

Once the download is complete, a pop-up window will state that the asset is downloaded successfully. Use the Import  button to bring the asset into the host platform. The button places the asset at 0,0,0 of the coordinates system.

Note that downloaded assets can be reused across different host platforms. They are saved locally at the following directory:

For Windows: C:\Users\[User]\Documents\Chaos Cosmos\Packages

For macOS: /Users/[User]/ChaosCosmos/

For Linux: /home/[User]/.ChaosCosmos/Packages

  The download storage can be configured. For more information on how to do it, refer to the Configuring the Asset Download Directory page.

Some assets have more than one variant. Assets with variants combine different versions of the same asset into a single item in the library.

1. Assets with variants have an indicator displaying the total number of its variants. 

2. To display the asset variants, hover over the asset. The variants show as small thumbnails and you can preview them by hovering over the thumbnail.

Note that you have to download and then import each individual variant if you want to have them all in your scene.

Cosmos assets get updated over time. When an update is available, an update label appears. You can download the new versions from within the Chaos Cosmos Browser. Click on the labeled asset to open a popup window and click the Download now update text in the bottom.

The Enmesh-Pattern category includes Enmesh patterns that can be applied to the geometry in the scene.

When an Enmesh asset is imported, a pattern is created in the obj network. Inside the pattern node, a mesh object can be created to receive the pattern.

If an object is already selected, the mesh is applied directly to the selection.

The imported pattern can be edited as a V-Ray Enmesh node of the underlying geometry.

For more information on Enmesh, see the How to Add V-Ray Enmesh tutorial.