Chaos Vantage
2.8.0
Last updated 6 November 2025
Official Release
Date - April 29, 2025
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New Features
Lens effect
- Added lens effects from the V-Ray VFB.
Materials
- Support for VRaySwitchMtl.
- Support for compensate camera exposure in VRayMtl и VRayLightMtl.
Lights
- Support for light linking through include and exclude lists.
Textures
- Support for the parallax room shader used by wParallax(jiWindowBox_All_v1_10.osl, wParallax_SMP.osl/wParallax_ADV.osl) and Evermotion (Evermotion_wBox_VRay.osl).
- Support for using video files as bitmap textures . Supported codecs are H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9.
- Support for VRayUVWRandomizer's Random Flip U/V options.
Scatter
- Support for the temporal consistency option of Chaos Scatter.
Hardware
- Support for recent integrated AMD GPUs (16 or more CUs).
Environment
- Support for animated environment rotation from vrscene.
Statistics
- Implemented Texture and mesh statistics dialogs.
Modified
Performance
- Improved rendering speed up to 80% faster(scene dependent) with implementing Shader Execution Reordering (SER). Available on NVIDIA Ada and Blackwell GPUs.
Denoiser
- Upgraded OIDN to version 2.3.3, adding support for latest NVIDIA and AMD GPUs.
Color management
- Upgraded OpenColorIO to 2.4.2, adding support for ACES 2.0 configurations.
Clouds
- Improved support for clouds from Enscape exported vrscene.
Color corrections
- Improved Blur radius to better match the one in VFB.
Fixes
Camera
- Warning about not found object for saved cameras in .vantage file.
- Improperly distinguished imported Original Camera
Materials
- Reflection filter clamping to better match V-Ray.
Displacement
- Missing displacement when shift is non-zero and bounds are disabled.
Textures
- Dynamic textures not working correctly with vrscenes from Cinema4D (higher than necessary mip resolutions were used).