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Columnsrepeat(2, 1fr)
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CSS Stylesheet
@media only screen and (min-width:1550px) {
.SideImageiframe {
max-width: 600px;
float:right;
}
}
@media only screen and (max-width:1550px) {
.SideImage{
max-height: 350px;
object-fit:cover;
object-position: center centertext-align:right;
}
}
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Official Release

Date - October 19th, 2021

 

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

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Image Removed

HTML
<iframe width="100%" height="350" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GhOQE8mndHc" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

 

 

Responsivegridmacro
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Columns3width1000px
Gap20px
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New Features

Place tool

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  • Implemented Place tool mode for the  Move tool with center cube to place objects on surface based on its normals
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    urlhttps://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/LAV/Toolbars

Camera

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  • Support for per camera resolution

Command Line

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  • Command line arguments using vantage_console.exe wrapper
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    urlhttps://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/LAV/Chaos+Vantage+Command+Line+Options
     

Environment

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  • Flip horizontally option for the environment texture.

Material tab UI

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  • Materials Material tab with thumbnails:
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    urlhttps://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/LAV/Materials+tab
    • Render materials thumbnails
    • Preview scene settings
    • Number of columns option

Output

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

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

Lights

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  • Save all lights parameters in .vantage file

UI

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

Camera

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

Animation editor

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  • Improved animation editor:
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    urlhttps://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/LAV/Animation+Editor
    • 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

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  • 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

 

 

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Fixes

UI

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

Camera

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

Lights

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

Multi GPU

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  • Black spots in denoised offline render on multi-GPU

  vrscene file

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  • 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

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  • Crash on app launch with external GPUs