This page provides information about the command line parameters available for Chaos Vantage.
Overview
Chaos Vantage can be run from Windows' Command Prompt with the listed below command-line arguments.
Please note that the vantage_console.exe has to be used instead of the vantage.exe located in C:\Program Files\Chaos Group\Vantage in order for the command-line arguments to work. |
General
-help (-h) – Prints all available arguments.
-version (-v) – Prints current installed version, build number, build hash, build date of Chaos Vantage
-quiet (-q) – Doesn't not print rendering progress.
-linkPort=<integer> (-lp) – Sets Live Link port.
-sceneFile=<filename> (-s) – Loads specified scene file.
-configFile=<filename> (-conf) – Loads specified .vantage file.
-camera=<name> (-cam) – Sets render camera.
Render job
Please note that default values will be taken from app config in if not set |
-outputFile=<filename> (-o) – If specified Vantage will render the image in 'offline' mode. Supported formats are: .png, .exr, .mp4 .See arguments below.
-outputWidth=<integer> (-ow) – Sets the output file width in pixels. Range is from 128 to 16384.
-outputHeight=<integer> (-oh) – Sets the output file height in pixels. Range is from 128 to 16384.
-videoQuality=<string> (-vq) – Sets quality level if output is .mp4. Values are: "High" (default), "Medium", "Low".
-frames=<range> – If specified, an animation sequence is rendered instead of just one still image. Format is 'startFrame-endFrame' (e.g. 0-100).
-samples=<integer> – Sets samples per frame when rendering to output file.
-noiseThreshold=<float> (-nt) – Sets noise threshold for offline rendering. Range is from 0.0 to 1.0.
-denoiser=<boolean> – Specifies whether to use the denoiser for offline rendering.
-antiFlicker=<boolean> – Specifies whether to use temporally stable denoising for animations if denoiser is enabled.
-lightCache=<boolean> (-lc) – Specifies whether to use Light Cache for offline rendering
-motionBlur=<boolean> (-mb) – Specifies whether to enable post-process motion blur for offline rendering.
-pngAlpha=<boolean> – Specifies whether to save the alpha channel if the output type specified is .png.
-autoClose=<boolean> – Quits after completing the offline render job. Defaults is On.
Devices(GPUs)
-deviceList (-dl) – Prints a list of devices available for rendering.
-device=<integer> (-d) - Uses the device at given index in the list. Can be passed multiple times.