Legacy Guides

Quickly create realistic terrain in your scenes with the new scattering tool. Easily add hundreds, thousands, or even millions of Chaos Cosmos models and objects to any surface without worrying about memory resources. Customize their density, size, and orientation for maximum realism.

Chaos Cosmos adds materials to the ever-increasing collection of smart V-Ray content. Make use of a virtually endless range of render-ready materials by customizing them with the familiar V-Ray material parameter system.

Take your projects to the next level with Chaos Vantage. Navigate your most complicated scenes in pure ray-traced real-time without any setup. Simply select the Live Link and start exploring your model’s true materials and lighting, and easily output animations and images.

Chaos Vantage requires an NVIDIA RTX series GPU.

Now you can use your personal HDR skies to create environment lighting with Light Gen. Load your collection, pick your desired number of variations, and you’re set. Plus, learn a neat little trick how to keep your artificial lights on.

Use V-Ray Decal to project unique materials onto an object or groups of objects in your scene. Control their size, orientation, and projection limit. Stack decals upon one another without ever disrupting the underlying object material.

Find out how to use V-Ray’s lightweight viewer to explore scenes, create quick previews, export animations, and more. Learn about the different ways in which you can optimize your scene for maximum responsiveness when modelling. And discover how you can achieve maximum visual fidelity when exporting images and animations for presentations.

V-Ray Vision can also aid parametric modeling with Rhino’s powerful Grasshopper tool. See how you can set up the Vision Live Link and adjust camera, lights, and materials to experiment and make better design decisions. Deep-dive into setting up animations from Grasshopper’s node system and more. 

Learn how to stage your scene with smart 3D models and HDR skies. We’ll also demonstrate the optimal ways to share projects containing Cosmos assets with colleagues or send them for rendering at a render farm.
Find out more about Chaos Cosmos: https://www.chaosgroup.com/cosmos

Learn how to generate multiple lighting variations for your project’s environment with just a few clicks. Employ V-Ray’s Sun & Sky system to find your model’s best lighting. Alternatively, employ HDRIs for image-based lighting from the Cosmos library or your personal collection.

Learn how to set up Chaos Cloud to quickly and easily render views in bulk. You’ll also learn how to control your credit limit to produce low-cost preview renders.

Find out more about Chaos Cloud: https://www.chaosgroup.com/cloud