2.0.0

Official Release

Date - June 27, 2023

New Features

Scene States

• Implemented a Scene States system for creating, modifying and switching lights, materials, and objects variations. Each tab, that can utilize the states system has a Scene sub-state rollout and a new Scene States tab is added in the right side panel.

Render Elements

• Implemented render elements(Lighting, Specular, Global Illumination, Reflection, Refraction, Self-Illumination, Atmosphere, Background, Diffuse Filter, Bumped Normals, Z-Depth, Velocity, Object Mask, Material Mask, Raw RGB) for compositing and masks.
• Option for saving render elements as separate .png and .jpeg images.

Fog

• Implemented light scattering( volumetric) fog.

Textures

• Support for multiple UV channels.
• Support for Vertex Color.
• Support for all options of the Advanced mode of the Color Correction texture from 3ds Max.
• Support for repeat/offset U/V for UVWGenMaya when not using shading graphs (e.g. for bump maps).

Animation

• Support for .vrscene file with animated: vertices, vrmeshes, materials, textures and UV parameters, light parameters.
• Support for animations outside the imported .vrscene range.

Denoiser

• Implemented Intel Open Image Denoise denoiser (OIDN) for interactive and HQ rendering.

Performance

• Implemented NVIDIA upscaling denoiser in interactive mode, requires driver 530 or newer.
• Implemented reservoir resampling algorithm for direct lighting (RTXDI).
• Render resolution scale option in interactive mode.

Chaos Scatter

• Implemented Chaos Scatter for populating objects in the scene.

Hardware

• Support for HDR displays.
• Support for AMD GPUs (experimental).

Subdivision

• Support for statically subdivided geometry objects from .vrscene.

Lights

• Support for mesh lights (improved with reservoir resampling enabled).
• Creation of lights(Point, Spot, Directional, Rectangle, Disc, Sphere, IES) from inside Vantage.
• Support for instanced lights via Forest pack and Railclone.

Materials

• Support for VRmat materials.
• Support for V-Ray override material (MtlOverride).

UI/UX

• Helper onscreen text for gizmo manipulators.
• Rendering quality presets slider with 4 predefined presets.

Cloning

• Implemented object cloning functionality with Ctrl+D.

Camera

• Support for camera render resolution from .vrscene file.
• Support for orthographic camera.
• Camera grouping functionality.

Tools

• Support for Vertex snapping when moving objects.
• Added functionality to quickly place the pivot on the object's bounding box boundaries.

Home Screen

• Implemented a Home Screen dialog with quick links, recent file and sample scenes.

Rendering

• Implemented interval and specific frames or frames list for sequence rendering.

Geometry

• Support for embedded vrscene nodes (VRayScene).

Modified

UX/UI

• Revamped user interface and user experience with reorganized and regrouped parameters.

Fixes

Live Link

• Double frame sequence rendering during Live Link with 'Render animation with Chaos Vantage'.

Geometry

• Wrong placement of meshes at the origin when instanced by an Instancer in an animated .vrscene file.
• Artifacts near the scene origin caused by self intersection.