Chaos Vantage Changelogs

Chaos Vantage 3.1
January 20, 2026

• Added playback controls for the volume grid cache files.
• Introducing Vantage Hydra delegate for Houdini 20.0, Houdini 20.5 and Houdini 21.0.
• Introducing cloud licensing. Now Vantage can acquire licenses without the need of License server. Note that License Server is still required for Vantage Hydra delegate.
• Initial version of Real-time smoke and fire fluid simulator.
• Support for different Smoke Color sources (Based on Temperature, Smoke, Fuel, Constant color) for the Volume Grid object.
• Added splittable side panels. Now Camera and Object tabs can be split in 2 columns.
• Added overlay post effect layer. Now a solid color or a texture can be overlayed over the render.

Chaos Vantage 3
October 15, 2025

• AI Material Generator via Chaos Cosmos
  Upload a photo and automatically generate a render-ready PBR material with all the necessary maps.
• Night Sky
  Realistic night sky with accurate stars, moon and Milky Way based on date, time and location.
• Gaussian Splats
  Directly integrate environments from scans; dynamically ray-traced, with the ability to place and adjust in real time.
• Volume Rendering
  Add compelling atmospheric effects such as fog, smoke, and light rays. Ideal for both archviz and VFX.
• Material Editor
  Edit material parameters directly within Vantage. This means that switching between 3D tools is not needed.
• Realtime tool kits for open workflows
  Support for USD and MaterialX, allowing users to seamlessly transfer assets without conversion.
• Scatter Clustering
  Refined landscape and environmental effects via various clustering modes: Generate Mode, Colour Map Mode, and Layer Paint Mode.

Chaos Vantage 2, Update 8
April 29, 2025

• • Shader Execution Reordering (SER) – Enjoy faster real-time and offline rendering with performance gains of up to 80% with support for SER in NVIDIA’s Ada and Blackwell GPUs.

• • Light Linking – Control how lights affect specific objects to fine-tune shadows, highlights, and composition.

• • Lens effects – Add cinematic glow and realism to bright areas with the new bloom and glare camera effects.

• • Parallax Shader – Create the illusion of furnished interiors on flat surfaces—perfect for facades, shop displays, and quick detail.

• • Temporal Consistency – Keep scattered elements stable by locking them to a rest-pose, so they follow surface movement across frames.

• • Switch material – Swap material variants quickly and easily. Ideal for look development and quick comparisons without rebuilding shaders.

Chaos Vantage 2, Update 7
February 12, 2025

• Scatter Surface Color – Achieve more natural looks for scattered instances by taking the color pattern of the underlying distribute-on object.
• Scatter Distribution Maps – Easily switch between different density styles for a given area with the new variety of distribution patterns.
• Artistic Camera Effects – Simulate lens distortion, making renders feel more natural and immersive and experiment with vignetting effects to add artistic expressiveness.
• Color Corrections – Enhance batch image processing with the new Sharpen and Blur effects.
• New Sky Model – Create more realistic still images and immersive animations with the improved PRG sky model. It now supports nautical twilight and observer altitudes of several kilometers.
• Dirt Texture – Easily create weathered streaks and dirt in crevices with the highly-requested new Dirt Texture.
• OCIO and DLSS 4 support – Secure precise color fidelity from asset creation to final output and boost image quality with optimized settings for real-time rendering.

Chaos Vantage 2, Update 6
October 24, 2024

Material

• Support for Sub Surface Scattering translucency mode of V-Ray material.
• Support for stochastic opacity. Now gradients in opacity map can be rendered. Has to be enabled

Clipper
The Clipper feature in Chaos Vantage allows users to remove parts of a scene using a simple geometric plane. It offers various settings like affecting lighting, clipping light geometry, and adjusting visibility based on camera angles. Users can enable the use of object materials for filling clipped areas or specify materials using IDs. The Clipper can also work with custom mesh objects, either removing content inside or outside the mesh. Users can include or exclude specific scene objects for more control.

Water Surface
The Water Surface feature in Chaos Vantage enables the creation of dynamic water surfaces with adjustable settings. It includes options for wave size, direction, and animation speed. Advanced controls allow for detailed wave tessellation, sharpness, and scaling. Users can also customize the appearance with materials that define reflection, refraction, and fog properties. These settings help simulate a range of water conditions, from calm to stormy. Updates to water surfaces occur when scrubbing the timeline with specific settings enabled.

Virtual Reality
Support for navigation with Virtual Reality controllers.

Camera

• Support for animated camera near and far clipping planes from vrscene.
• Cameras are now scene objects. They are listed in scene outliner and have gizmos in the viewport and can be selected and manipulated.
• Added Smooth camera key interpolation for smoother camera movement.
• Functionality for setting the average camera movement speed for Animation Transitions.

UI/UX
Added import camera, light and material buttons in Camera, Lights and Materials tab respectively.

Clay Mode
Added Wireframe/Edges override option for the Clay mode.

Texture

• Support for PhoenixFDOcean texture.
• Support for V-Ray Water Texture in Maya, SketchUp, Rhino and Revit.

Chaos Cosmos
Support for Cosmos multi-asset selection and import.

Multi GPU
Added support for Light Cache on multiple GPUs.

Chaos Vantage 2, Update 5
July 2, 2024

Virtual Reality
View the world from a whole new perspective. Chaos Vantage now supports head tracking and rendering to HMD headsets, enabling exciting interactive experiences.

Animated Vegetation
Chaos Vantage now has the “Wind” parameter, allowing the supported Chaos Cosmos vegetation to realistically sway with it.

Rounded Edges
Every designer knows that there is no such thing as a perfectly square edge. Now Chaos Vantage is able to smooth sharp edges, eliminating those harsh lines that don’t look quite right.

Partial Opacity
Chaos Vantage now offers adjustable transparency per object, enabling smooth transitions between fully opaque and fully transparent. Perfect for making objects appear or disappear.

Chaos Vantage 2, Update 4
May 29, 2024

Decal with Cylindrical Projection
Easily add stickers, labels, and other graphics to flat surfaces or cylindrical objects like bottles and jars. Adjust the Decal’s projection to perfectly align with the object’s surface curvature in just a few clicks.

UDIM Texture Support
With UDIM texture support, UV mapping and texturing workflows become easier, simplifying UV map generation and texture assignment. Additionally, Vantage is now capable of rendering UDIMs.

Chaos Vantage 2, Update 3
March 27, 2024
Support for V-Ray Blend Materials
Layer and mix complex materials in a physically based way to achieve a photorealistic look.

Multi Matte Render Element
Amplify your creative control in post-production with this new render element.

Chaos Vantage 2, Update 2
December 11, 2023
V-Ray Fur & Hair
Generate realistic carpets, rugs, animal pelts, and grass effortlessly using Vantage’s compatibility with V-Ray Fur. Additionally, attain natural-looking hair with precise highlights, along with customizable glint and glitter controls, thanks to the support for VRayHairNextMtl.

Displacement
Generate intricate geometric details from textures, perfect for crafting bas-reliefs, pavements, brick/stone walls, and other structures that are challenging when modeling manually.