Chaos Vantage 2, Update 6 is available!

Chaos Vantage 2, Update 6 is officially available for download and now includes Clipper, Water Surface, and more!

What’s New

Material

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

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 use object materials to fill clipped areas or specify materials using IDs. The Clipper can also work with custom mesh objects, 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.

Availability

If you are new to Chaos Vantage, you can request your demo version here. If you already use Chaos Vantage, go to your login page on the Chaos website to download the latest full version of Chaos Vantage.

Purchase

Convinced of the possibilities of Chaos Vantage? Purchase a license for this visualization tool through our reseller channel.

Happy rendering!