Chaos Vantage - Annual

Explore your most complex V-Ray 3D production scenes ray traced in real-time. With Chaos® Vantage, there are no time-consuming conversions. Simply drag and drop your complete V-Ray scene into Vantage and start exploring. Quickly create high-quality visualizations or pre-visualizations for architecture, film-making, automotive and more.

Use Chaos Vantage as an Archviz artist

Explore & present unlimited design variations.

Switch between design options, material schemes, and lighting configurations to compare, explain, and explore all the possibilities you have for your design or its presentation.

See every aspect of your scene as you model.

A real-time companion view, unaffected by scene size, that gives you a highly realistic perspective of your scene as you adjust materials, lighting, and geometry.

Render super fast.

Produce high-quality renderings and animations in record time at a quality level that makes approval easy - including all the render elements needed for post-production.

Use Chaos Vantage as a VFX professional

Playblasts at exceptional quality

Playblasts that convey the actual materials and lighting of your production for far more meaningful review and approval.

Previz with full-size scenes, that can be reused in production

Ray tracing in real-time without scene simplification or baking, using the same materials and lighting as your production team.

Real-time reference

A real-time ray-traced view that closely matches your production rendering results as you finalize your scene. Also perfect for over-the-shoulder discussions while making decisions.

What's New

Chaos Vantage 2 adds powerful new capabilities enabling you to convey your designs even more effectively. Toggle between different moods and variations of your project with the scene states. Visualize realistic vegetation moving in the wind and animated people interacting with their design. Composite your images with support for popular render elements like "back to beauty" and material and object masks. And much more.

• Scene states
  Assign different light setups, materials, object transformation, and post-process looks to different cameras. Easily recall and send them for batch rendering.
  
  
• Scatter
  Populate your scenes with millions of objects in just a few clicks. The new scatter tool allows you to quickly and easily create forests, fields, crowds, and more.
  
  
• Deformed meshes
  Animate people and vegetation and create richer animations for your project presentations.
  
  
• Render elements
  Add the most popular render elements, as well as object and material masks, to fine-tune your images in post.
  
  

Key Features

Rendering

• Real-time rendering
  Render your scenes in 100% ray traced real-time through the power of DXR-compatible GPUs. Enjoy physically accurate cameras, lights, and materials while retaining game-like interactivity.
• Live Link animation rendering
  Get a live raytraced view of your scene, and render animations with a live link from 3ds Max, Maya, SketchUp, Rhino, Revit, and Cinema 4D. Changes you make in your scene will instantly appear in Chaos Vantage.
• Denoising
  Employ the Vantage native denoiser designed for real time denoising or the NVIDIA AI Denoiser, when rendering high quality output to automatically remove noise.
• Batch rendering
  Easily queue camera views and animation sequence jobs in the render queue.

UI

• Live link
  Instantly sync changes done to the scene in your DCC without exporting vrscenes.
• Material workflow
  The material tab lets you easily preview, assign, replace, and search materials for an interactive workflow.
• 3D navigation
  Navigate and direct your cameras using the popular 3DConnexion SpaceMouse controller.
• HDR Monitor support
  Make your projects extra radiant with HDR monitor support.
• Quality presets
  Quickly choose between quality and interaction speed with a single slider, allowing you to set Vantage for high-quality rendering or faster feedback.

Animations & special effects

• Deformed meshes
  Animate people and vegatation and create richer animations for your project presentations.
• Animation Editor
  Easily create animations by dropping cameras, adjusting length, adding transitions and exporting video or image sequences.
• Extended animations
  Take even more .vrscene animation effects into Vantage. From flickering and fading lights to animating the tiling offset, your animated materials, textures, and lights now work seamlessly in Vantage.
• Scattering fog
  Set the mood for your scenes with realistic environmental effects such as god rays, light shafts through windows, streetlights, with volumetric fog with realistic light scattering.

Lighting

• Global Illumination
  Vantage GI is developed to provide maximum lighting accuracy at interactive rendering speed.
• Ambient occlusion
  Add detail to your renderings with contact shadows using raytraced ambient occlusion.
• Geolocated time of day
  Perform accurate light studies by quickly and easily setting up the sun for a given date, time and location. Create daylight time-lapse animations with minimum effort.
• Sun & Sky
  Render realistic daylight for any hour of the day and create any type of cloudy sky with the user-friendly yet powerful procedural cloud system.
• Accurate lights
  From physically accurate Area lights, to IES lights with real world measured light distribution, to simplified point and spot lights, Vantage renders your lights with raytraced accuracy.
• Light instancing
  Light instances are preserved and can be controlled easily.
• Light creation and placement
  You can now create various types of lights directly in Vantage. Use the advanced placement options to achieve lookdev directly in Vantage without any DCC dependency.
• NVIDIA RTXDI
  Add plenty of dynamic lights to your scene without worrying about performance or resource constraints. Vantage implements NVIDIA RTXDI with its Direct light reservoir sampling feature.

Camera

• Scene states
  Assign different light setups, materials, object transformation and post-process looks to different cameras. Easily recall and send them for batch rendering.
• Real-world cameras
  Use real world camera parameters and work like a virtual photographer - add depth of field and motion blur to your renders.
• Auto Exposure
  The camera exposure adjusts automatically as you navigate in your scene.
• Bloom effect
  Add the popular lens effect to simulate the real-world interaction between the light sources and the camera.
• Overlays
  Composition guides overlays make it easier to find the perfect frame.
• Orthographic cameras
  Easily create top-down or facade renderings with the orthographic camera projection.

Materials & textures

• Shading support
  Support for Clear coat in V-Ray Material, V-Ray 2 Sided Material, Glossy Fresnel reflections, Substance textures, V-Ray MultiSubTex, MultiTexture, ForestColor, Normal maps, and more.
• One-click clay override
  The powerful Clay option significantly streamlines the material overrides process when setting up lighting or presenting early designs.
• Material Coat
  Add reflective coating to your material to achieve effects like varnished wood or metallic paint.
• Multiple UV channels
  Enrich your projects by creating sophisticated materials such as stacking labels or adding decals with newly added support for multiple UV channels.
• Dynamic textures
  Vantage automatically resizes the scene textures and uses the most optimal size. This greatly improves memory efficiency and allows you to load even larger scenes.
• Normal maps
  Add depth detail like bumps and dents to improve the realism of your surface material.
• Image sequences as textures
  Turn the TV on or light up the fireplace by using image file lists to animate textures.
• Randomizer
  Remove repeating patterns and add more realism to your textures using randomization controls.

Geometry

• Chaos Cosmos integration
  A collection of high-quality, render-ready 3D assets, HDR images and materials that quickly add believable entourage to your interior or exterior scene.
• Chaos Scatter
  Populate your scenes with millions of objects in just a few clicks. The new scatter tool allows you to quickly and easily create forests, fields, crowds, and more.
• Support for Anima4D assets
  Chaos has partnered with AXYZ to provide support for its high-quality 3D library of animated 4D people and crowds.
• Mesh Lights
  Turn any geometry into a direct light source for even more artistic lighting. Mesh lights are now rendered much faster than before.

Post production

• Render Elements
  Add the most popular render elements, as well as object and material masks to fine tune your images in post.
• Filmic Tonemapping
  Simulate different real-world films' color gamma to color correct images.
• Color correction
  Remap the image colors using present color corrections from a LUT file.

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Supported platforms

• Chaos Vantage works with .vrscene files exported from V-Ray Next, V-Ray 5, and V-Ray 6.
• Chaos recommends using V-Ray 5 and above for an ultimate experience.
• Chaos Vantage works with a live link from 3ds Max, SketchUp, Rhino, Revit, and Cinema 4D.

System requirements

• Windows 10 with Update 2004 or newer (version 10.0.19041)
• DXR compatible NVIDIA or AMD GPU (maximum of two)
• For NVIDIA GPUs - RTX series or newer, required driver 515 or newer, recommended driver 530 or newer
• For AMD GPUs - RX 6000 series or newer
• System RAM should equal or exceed GPU memory (minimum 8GB RAM)