2.5.0

Official Release

Date - June 2, 2024

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New Features

Virtual Reality

• Initial(WIP) support for interactive rendering in VR headsets.

Animation

• Support for Chaos Cosmos animated vegetation assets.

Materials

• Support for VRayEdgesTex in bump and rounded corners.

Geometry

• Support for animated partial object visibility.

Rendering

• Support for ACEScg rendering color space.
• Tool for quickly saving a previz video with DLSS.

UI/UX

• Search filtering and sorting for scene objects, lights, and cameras.
• Progress bar for importing assets.
• Added meter scale information in the log and Scene stats.
• Added "Flip horizontally" option to the Background image.
• Added ability to drag and drop files onto FilePath property labels(LUTs, Environment texture, Background texture, Point, Spot, Directional Projection textures).

Color Corrections

• Loading chromatic aberration from VFB settings in .vrscene.

Modified

Decals

• Added decal option to lock the width/length ratio.
• Improved the "place decals" tool to be activated when importing or dragging decals from the Chaos Cosmos browser and to load the decal properties.

UI/UX

• Improved the "Always on top" behavior, now it is disabled while HQ rendering.
• Improved UI - now distance parameters display with scene units.
• Improved the camera settings layout.
• Improved the highlighting and selection in scenes with millions of instances.

Environment

• The default sun is now auto-enabled when it is the only light in the scene.
• Added Improved shading option to the clouds that improves self-shadowing.

Performance

• Texture loading speed is now 5-10% faster.
• Improved acceleration structure rebuilds and instance updates for better performance.

Vantage file

• Merged assets as a result of "Open file as config only" now are properly saved in the .vantage file.

Installer

• New default install directory is C:\Program Files\Chaos\Vantage\. For versions prior to Chaos Vantage 2.5, the default location is - C:\Program Files\Chaos Group\Vantage\

Fixes

Environment

• Visible strip artifacts on clouds.
• Incorrect environment rotation when using the "Flipped" option in Maya

Decals

• Decals not rendering from Live Link from Revit or other V-Ray 6.1 builds.
• Decals not updating on animated objects under specific circumstances.
• Transform animation from .vrscene being ignored for decals.

Textures

• Incorrect saturation of textures when dynamic textures are enabled.
• Reduced checker artifacts with UVWRandomizer random rotation and certain normal maps when dynamic textures are enabled.

UI/UX

• Overlay issue when using multiple GPUs with OptiX or DLSS upscaling.
• Incorrect change of the "View mode" after "Frame Selected/Scene" action.
• Hiding of the "Create scene state" dialog when "Always on top" option is enabled.
• Undo transformation for objects in very large scenes.
• Non-functioning undo shortcut while the Transform Dialog is open.

Vantage file

• Generation of additional clone objects when opening the scene as config only.