3.0.0

Vantage 3 Beta

Beta Release

Date - August 28, 2025

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New Features

USD

• Initial support for importing and rendering static and animated USD (Universal Scene Description) format files(.usd, .usda, .usdc, usdz).

Materials

• Initial support for MaterialX shaders.
• Added functionality for creating and editing materials within Chaos Vantage. Note: Currently only materials created in Vantage can be edited.

Gaussian Splats

• Support for rendering Gaussian Splats from .vrscene files and Live Link.

Volumes

• Initial support for importing and rendering volume caches (.aur, .vdb) from Chaos Phoenix and VRayVolumeGrid.
• New “Create new Volume Grid” object available from the main toolbar. Note: Volume shading controls are currently limited inside Vantage.

Scatter

• Added support for Object Clustering in Chaos Scatter. Note: Instance layer painting and instance color maps are not yet supported.

Textures

• Added support for the probability parameter in MultiSubTex.
• Added support for VRay2SidedTex.
• Added support for Maya Projection Texture.
• Added support for Cinema 4D projection mappings, including screen and frontal types.

Camera

• Added support for camera tracking with the following protocols: LONET 2, EZtrackTCD, FreeD, stYpe HF.

View Modes

• New Selection Mask View Mode: Selected objects render white while all others render black.

UI/UX

• Added camera object editing in the Details panel (Object tab). Note: Changes will not be visible in the viewport until the camera is re-selected from the Camera Lister.

Render Elements

• Render element names can now be remapped using the environment variable VRDX_REMAP_ELEMENT_NAMES with the following available convention: VRDX_REMAP_ELEMENT_NAMES=OldName:NewName and VRDX_REMAP_ELEMENT_NAMES="Old name:New name"

Modified

UX/UI

• Redesigned Chaos Vantage UI: changed color palette, side panels are now resizable.
• Redesigned Home Screen.
• Render setup is now Render mode. Available from top right side.

Performance

• Enhanced the Lavina renderer to better handle very large numbers of unique meshes.

Textures

• Improved handling of V-Ray Dirt visibility inside nested groups in .vrscene files.

Light Linking

• Improved loading performance for large include/exclude lists on environment lights.

Fixes

File

• Crash when opening .vantage files referencing .vrscene files with deleted animated cameras.

Textures

• Incorrect rendering of large HDRI maps in environment textures on Blackwell GPUs.
• Rendering issues with specific animated textures when DLSS denoiser is enabled.
• UV set mapping issues for Blender scenes with multiple channels.

Displacement

• Crash caused by per-triangle tessellation displacement on multi-geometry meshes (multi-voxel .vrmesh).

Lights

• Incorrect rendering of light meshes from multi-geometry meshes (multi-voxel .vrmesh).
• Instance prototype flag handling in lights.

Light Linking

• Non-functional light linking on procedural objects (e.g., Chaos Scatter).
• Random black artifacts on directly visible area lights using light linking.

UI/UX

• Navigation gizmos flickering and disappearing prematurely.
• Incorrect DLSS settings display when the denoiser should be hidden.