Chaos Vantage
1.8.4
Last updated 2 October 2025
Official Release
Date - January 25, 2023
New Features
Textures
- Support for for repeat/offset u/v for 2D Placement texture from Maya when used in bump.
Modified Features
Rendering
- Improved the metalness of a material to better match V-Ray.
- Improved reflective caustics.
- Improved the calculations for light power by area.
Fixes
Import/Load
- Crash when importing/loading with animated proxy containing hair geometry.
Textures
- Crash with EXR file loaded as a V-Ray Normal map in Bump slot material.
- Texture blurriness when W coordinate is different than 0.
Lights
- New Default Vantage sun being created each time a non-vrscene is appended.
- Light intensity to accept only positive values.
Auto-exposure
- Difference in image brightness when using Auto-exposure and different rendering resolutions.
- Visual artifacts with fog and Auto-Exposure.
UX/UI
- Restoring of maximized main window.
- Active pixels overlay not showing active pixels.
- Stereo Spherical and Stereo Cube camera types not updating correctly render resolution based on aspect ratio.
Command line
- Command line rendering with video output file generates separate files.
Rendering
- Camera types not taken into account, when using sequence rendering.
Batch rendering
- Wrong FOV for cameras of the render Queue.
Live Link
- Render animation with Chaos Vantage, from 3Ds Max, doesn't start rendering when a Live link connection is not established.