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Official Release

Date - March 27, 2024

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urlhttps://download.chaosgroup.com/?platform=47&product=63

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New Features

Materials

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

Render element

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  • Support for the Multi Matte render element.

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UI/UX

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  • Added viewport toggle filter for the light gizmos.

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    urlhttps://docs.chaos.com/display/LAV/Toolbars#Toolbars-Toptoolbar

  • Added option to improve desktop responsiveness while rendering.

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    urlhttps://docs.chaos.com/display/LAV/Edit+Menu

  • 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

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

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Displacement

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

Denoiser

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  • Updated Intel Open Image Denoise to version 2.2.

Light Cache

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  • Improved Light Cache to slightly better preserve low intensity samples.

UI/UX

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  • Chaos Cosmos Browser UI responsiveness.



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Fixes

Displacement

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

Scene states

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  • Broken sub-states after dropping Environment texture.

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  • Wrong Live Link update for Nodes with unsupported materials.

  • Wrong rendering of Glossy Refraction with rotated texture during Live Link with Rhinoл

Lights

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

Collision

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

Clouds

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  • Wrong cloud shading with sun slightly under the horizon.

Lighting

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  • 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

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  • Disappearing toolbar in the Debug Log window after second opening.

  • Hiding of the HQ rendering dialog while "Always on top" is enabled.

Denoiser

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  • Streak artifacts with Optix denoiser and multi GPU setup.

  • Broken temporal (“reduce flickering”) denoising in multi GPU mode.