Chaos Vantage 1 Highlights

Chaos Vantage, v1.8.6

Official Release

Date - June 1, 2023

Fixes

Live Link

• Wrong first frame and duplicate frames during Live Link sequence rendering.
• Reverted IPR render state to be enabled automatically when in Live Link

Texture

• Bug when trying to load RawBitmapBuffer of an image above 16k resolution.

UX/UI

• Fixed random crash when closing Vantage
• Wrong denoiser description
• Inconvenient soft range for the environment lighting intensity parameter
• Camera panel width issue when "Enlarge font" is enabled

Chaos Vantage, v1.8.5

Official Release

Date - April 20, 2023

New features

Materials

• Basic support for VRmat materials.

Textures

• Support for alpha from bitmaps used in V-Ray material's opacity, exported from Maya.
• Support for all options of the Advanced mode of the Color Correction texture from 3Ds Max.

UX/UI

• Separated environment related properties from Lights tab into a dedicated Environment tab.
• Added 'Open Scene Location' to File menu.

Geometry

• Support for Edge trimming option introduced in Chaos Scatter with V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max, update 1.1.

Modified Features

UX/UI

• Added scrollbar to Lights and Camera tabs.
  • Fixed snapping manipulation precision.
• Live Link UI mode - hides unusable tools and tabs when in Live Link session.
• Delete button's icon changed.
• Moved camera properties to default Undo Queue.
• Allow the Delete key to be used in the viewport for deleting selected objects.
• Remove 'Advanced Scene Settings' dialog from File menu, its settings are scattered in more convenient places(Camera tab, Render tab, Preferences dialog).
• Merged 'Render animation with Chaos Vantage' and 'Render animation with Chaos Vantage, using Vantage UI' into a single 'Render Animation with Chaos Vantage' workflow.

Fixes

Clouds

• Tiling artifacts for thin layer of clouds.

Live Link

• Wrong undo actions for camera parameters during Live Link.

Lights

• Textured rectangle lights don't match V-Ray when the light units are not set to default.

UX/UI

• Deleting parent object in a hierarchy messes children's transformation and Undo history.
• Render resolution not updating automatically when render Setup dialog is opened.

Chaos Vantage, v1.8.4

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.

Chaos Vantage, v1.8.3

Official Release

Date - October 26, 2022

Modified Features

Performance

• Improved performance on the RTX 4090 GPU

UX/UI

• Increased default value of "Max. sec. ray intensity" from 20 to 200.
• Grouped exposure, highlight burn and contrast in Exposure group.

Fixes

Live Link

• Crash related to bump/normal mapping in a live link from V-Ray 6 for SketchUp.

Lights

• Choppy sun and clouds animation for animated geolocation.

Materials

• Wrong rendering of scenes that contain VRayOverride material.

Path resolver

• Incorrect assets being loaded when resolving paths.

UX/UI

• Wrong resolution for 720p preset in the HQ dialog
• Missing startup scene.

Render elements

• Missing render elements in EXR file.

Chaos Vantage, v1.8.2

Official Release

Date - October 13, 2022

New Features

NVidia AI Denoiser

• Option to denoise only final sampling pass in offline rendering.

Modified

Environment

• Implemented a default Vantage sun so Physical Sun and Sky option is available in the Environment mode drop-down.

UX/UI

• Added "Always On Top" button in the top toolbar and shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+T).
• Added outlines to rollouts.
• Improved the snapping behavior for manipulation gizmos.
• Added sliders below parameters with soft range and CTRL(snaps to 1/1000 of the slider's soft range value), SHIFT(snaps to 1/10 of the slider's soft range value) and CTRL+SHIFT(snaps to 1/100 of the slider's soft range value) modifier keys for finer control.
• Synchronized value defaults and ranges between Vantage UI and "Render animation via Live Link" dialog in 3Ds Max.

Path resolver

• Improved path resolver now searches every subfolder next to the imported file, for assets.

Motion blur

• Reduced artifacts from motion blur

Denoiser

• Improved Vantage denoiser result in refraction and flickering object edges.
• Improved refraction quality when switching between Vantage and NVidia AI in Combined denoiser mode.
• Improved reflection detail with NVidia AI denoiser.

Auto-exposure

• Improved auto-exposure that accumulate samples in dark areas (single GPU only).

Fixes

Rendering

• Visual popping of textures with "Dynamic textures" option enabled.
• Wrong blending of the sun disk with the ground albedo.
• Wrong alignment of the sky texture's horizon line.
• Temporal denoiser and postprocessing passes breaking with dynamic textures.
• Reduce flickering being used when disabled in High quality rendering.

Auto-exposure

• Crash when starting an offline render with "Auto exposure" enabled on systems with 2 GPUs.

Command line

• Crash when rendering with -denoiser=0.

Live Link

• Hang when the Live Link drops during a sequence rendering.
• Random abort while rendering sequence using "Render animation using Chaos Vantage".
• Live Link in 3ds Max doesn't start with the first click on the Start/Stop button.
• Distributed rendering in 3ds Max to always deactivate when the Live Link stop button is pressed.

Motion blur

• Not applying to moving objects when using "Render animation using Chaos Vantage".
• Not rendering in "Render animation using Chaos Vantage" Maxscript.

Import/Load

• Errors caused by loading empty string texture filenames.
• Scene animation range one frame shorter when loading .vantage file.

UX/UI

• UI bug when switching between 'Focal length' and 'Field of view'.
• Transform manipulation and snapping windows not being disabled in Live Link.
• Inconsistent spinner value changes on secondary monitor.
• Wrong rotation range for transform type-ins.
• Chaos Vantage starting at invalid coordinates when monitor layout changes between sessions.

Render elements

• Missing velocity in EXR.
• Alpha getting lost in EXR when motion blur is enabled.

Chaos Vantage, v1.8.1

Official Release

Date - July 19, 2022

New Features

Color Corrections

• Implemented Chromatic aberration effect in the Post tab.

Modified

License server

• Updated to latest Chaos License Server 6.0.0

Cloud system

• Reduced distortion of the contrails used in the cloud system.

Fixes

Live Link

• 3ds Max hangs during Live Link caused by the cryptomatte render element.
• Motion blur not rendering offline animation through Live Link from 3ds Max.

Motion blur

• Not rendering in offline renders when dynamic textures are enable.
• Not rendering in "Render animation using Chaos Vantage" Maxscript.

UX

• Weird dialog placement on secondary monitor

Chaos Vantage, v1.8.0

Official Release

Date - July 14, 2022

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New Features

Clouds

• Implemented Cloud system to the Physical Sky environment model.

Color Corrections

• Implemented Filmic Tonemapper(Hable, AMPAS), Hue/Saturation and Contrast color corrections in the Post tab.

Textures

• Support for animated textures(image sequences)files. Have to manually update on desired frame using Update sequence button() when not in Live Link or offline rendering.

Performance

• Option for dynamic textures to reduce GPU memory usage.
• Experimental option to increase FPS by decreasing sampling quality.
• Option to pause rendering after reaching a certain sample level.

Overlays

• Added composition grid overlays: Rule of Thirds, Central Cross, Golden Spiral, Golden Ratio and Diagonals. Available from the Composition guides overlay ()button in the top toolbar.

Modified

Output

• EXR files now store camera exposure.

UX/UI

• Shortcut for HQ render dialog opening. Default is Ctrl+R.
• Functionality to copy the viewport to the clipboard with Ctrl+C shortcut.
• Implemented sliders for Color Corrections in the Post tab.
• Improved the UI responsiveness while the HQ Render setup dialog is open.
• Separated Bump and Normal mapping render options.
• Disabled file actions (e.g. Open Scene, Reload Scene) while in Live Link session.
• Misleading error message when a scene file is corrupted.
• Wrong reporting of geometry statistics in various cases (live link, deleting objects, V-Ray Proxy).

Tools

• Render Animation with Chaos Vantage UI shows the correct FPS from Max.

Fixes

.vantage file

• 'Original camera' thumbnail not being properly displayed after loading file.

Performance

• GPU memory for a VRayProxy not being freed after the proxy is deleted.

Chaos Vantage, v1.7.4

Official Release

Date - June 13, 2022

Modified

UX

• Improved scroll handling for debug log window

Fixes

Output

• Crash when saving to EXR files.

UX

• Strange symbols in debug log after filter search.
• Duplicate file close confirmation dialog.

Chaos Vantage, v1.7.3

Official Release

Date - June 08, 2022

Modified

Live Link

• Added support for V-Ray 6 (beta) builds.

Exposure

• Auto-exposure smoothing over time in High Quality sequence rendering. It is determined from FPS and Auto exposure time. Set Auto exposure time to 0 for previous behavior.

UI

• Improved message log UI:
  • Added button in the status bar for easier access.
  • Search filter now filters and shows only lines that have the input string.
  • Added Filter menu to specify the type of message to show in the log window.
  • Added Wrap lines button.
  • Added Clear log widow button.
  • Added Open log location button.

Fixes

Performance

• CPU memory leak when uploading textures.
• Potential delay in version check during startup

Live Link

• Files not saving with Non-ascii filename characters when using 'Render animation with Chaos Vantage"

Chaos Vantage, v1.7.2

Official Release

Date - May 19, 2022

New feature

Exposure

• Implemented Auto-exposure functionality. Can be toggled via the button in top toolbar.

Texture

• Support for negative values for textures.

Fixes

Installer

• Embedded Chaos Cosmos installer downgrades newer installed version

Lights

• Crash when deleting grouped lights

Live Link

• Camera type is not consistent throughout the entire animation sequence when using 'Render animation with Chaos Vantage, using Vantage UI'

Chaos Vantage, v1.7.1

Official Release

Date - April 13, 2022

New feature

Texture

• Partial support for V-Ray Edges texture - rounded corners are not implemented

Modified

.vantage

• Geolocated sun animation is saved in the .vantage file

Navigation

• Support for mapping Chaos Vantage shortcuts through the SpaceMouse/3DConnexion controller

UX

• 'Render setup' dialog retains settings when closed and between sessions. 'Save defaults' checkbox is removed from UI
• Light gizmos now have consistent line width and size at different render resolution and viewport size

UI

• Upper limit for the number of light tree samples is increased to 16

Fixes

Environment

• Wrong overriding of the current environment texture when using "Open Scene as Config Only..."

Chaos Vantage, v1.7.0

Official Release

Date - March 30, 2022

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New Features

Textures

• Support for normal maps

Clay mode

• Added white/clay mode override in the Material tab with options to preserve original material's reflection, refraction, bump, opacity and self illumination

Ambient occlusion

• Added global ambient occlusion option in the Lights tab

Sun animation

• Implemented Animated Geolocated sun and Sun track in the animation editor for easy sun time lapse animation

Menu

• Added New option in the File menu to create a new empty scene

Navigation

• Support for 3DConnexion SpaceMouse controller

Supported output formats

• Implemented .jpg/.jpeg file type output

Modified

Ambient light

• Added ambient light color swatch
• Increased ambient light intensity limit to 1000000

UX

• Implemented 'Camera enqueu mode' in Render setup dialog to add all scene cameras at once in the render queue
• Shows .vantage file name in recent file list and title bar after saving scene
• Camera clipping planes are now taken into account when determining the dolly/orbit/zoom pivot point
• Abort button now aborts the entire render queue
• Render dialog retains render queue when closed
• Sequence mode is not allowed when no sequence is available

Fixes

.vantage file

• The .vrscene environment texture is not used when loading a .vrscene with an associated .vantage file

Memory

• Memory leak when HQ rendering with denoiser

Live link

• Changing a VRayLight from Plane to Dome not updating correctly

Camera

• Crash when renaming a camera

Geometry

• Crash when deleting objects

Chaos Vantage, v1.6.2

Official Release

Date - January 11, 2022

New feature

Texture

• Support for the "auto" color space transfer function of VRayBitmap

Modified

.vantage

• When the root .vrscene is not found with its absolute path it's searched for in the folder containing the .vantage file

Fixes

Multi GPU

• Line artifacts in interactive mode when using multiple GPUs

UI

• Duplicate objects showing up in object list (with scenes from Maya)

Memory

• Crash when out of GPU memory and the scene has a rectangle light with a texture

Tools

• Issues in "Import changes from Vantage" MAX script:
• Importing cameras from a .vantage file does not set the frame rate
• Unexpected values for the "Exposure value" keys

Live Link

• Live link failing to start when "Save strings in legacy non-scene files using UTF8" is enabled in 3ds Max

.vantage

• Error when using "Save scene settings as default"

UX

• Undo action not working properly after a select-all(CTRL+A) action in the objects list

Chaos Vantage, v1.6.1

Official Release

Date - December 16, 2021

Modified

UX

• Place tool now locks the selected object's current orientation while SHIFT key is pressed
• A sample HDR file is loaded when opening non-vrscene files

UI

• Added progress indication when importing FBX, OBJ, 3DS, PLY, STL, TER, DAE, GLTF file formats

Textures

• Better parity when using the VRayUVWRandomizer in V-Ray for Cinema4D

Non-vrscene files

• Default up direction (now Y) for OBJ and 3DS files

Fixes

Live Link

• Animation rendering started with Vantage UI renders the same frame over and over
• Animation synchronization bug in 3ds Max

.vantage file

• Deleting an instance of an appended scene resulting in an incorrectly saved .vantage file

Memory

• Excessive shared GPU memory usage with certain large .OBJ scenes

Environment

• HDR rotation not importing with vrscene generated from Revit

Non-vrscene files

• TerraGen (.ter) files doesn't import

UX

• Camera view getting reset to the original camera after placing an asse
• Pressing ESC while using Place tool makes selected object to be unselectable
• Issues when switching between Still and Sequence in the Render setup dialog

Chaos Vantage, v1.6.0

Official Release

Date - December 06, 2021

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New Features

Cosmos materials

• Support for Cosmos materials
• Remove unused cosmos materials option in the Material list

Batch rendering

• Support for batch rendering. Still image and Sequence jobs can be added to a render queue

UX

• Import option in the File menu for easier importing of supported file formats

Supported formats

• Experimental support for opening and importing FBX, OBJ, 3DS, PLY, STL, TER, DAE, GLTF file formats

Modified

UX

• The Snapshot and Sequence dialogs are now united in a single Render dialog
• Animation frame range setting in the Render dialog
• Render time estimation in the Progress window
• Non-zero default values for transform snapping. New defaults are:
  • Translate 10 scene units
  • Rotate 15 degrees
  • Scale 0.1
• Object list improvements:
  • CTRL + A selects all objects, including children
  • SHIFT + Expand/Collapse applies to children too
  • DELETE key deletes the selected object
  • SHIFT + DELETE key deletes the selected object and its children
  • All selected items are expanded/collapsed with the item currently expanding/collapsing

Performance

• Optimized GPU memory usage:
  • Light Cache is now several times smaller
  • Unused textures are unloaded from the GPU

Live Link

• Creation and updating of textures for lights

Fixes

Textures

• VRayMultiTexture and VRayTriplanar randomization options not working with scenes from V-Ray 5, update 2

Memory

• Crash after loading a new scene after a failed memory allocation

Multi GPU

• Line artifacts with multi GPU after opening the material browser

Chaos Vantage, v1.5.3

Official Release

Date - November 11, 2021

New Features

Material tab

• Material name searching, type filtering and sorting(name and creation)
• Select the material of the selected object button

UX

• Drag-and-drop material assignment with preview
• Alt+drag-and-drop replaces material on all object with same material
• Ctrl+drag-and-drop assigns material to objects and its children

Import

• Support for ply, obj, bin, geo, hclassic, bgeo, bhclassic, prt, and partial (no animation, hair and particles) support for alembic files

Modified

UX

• Cosmos browser doesn't show importer choice inside Chaos Vantage when multiple importers are running
• Motion blur is not allowed for non-perspective (Cube 6x1, Spherical and stereo) cameras.

Performance

• Optimized memory usage of texture files with a single color
• Optimized memory usage for material previews

Live Link

• Implemented HDRI environment and dome light creation and updating

Fixes

Live Link

• Several parameters not working in the Render Animation via Live Link dialog in 3ds Max

Console

• Incorrect frame rate when rendering through console

.vantage file

• Animation editor settings not getting saved to .vantage file

Material tab

• Wrong material thumbnails after loading a new scene

Chaos Vantage, v1.5.2

Official Release

Date - October 21, 2021

Fixes

Snapshot

• "Render High Quality Snapshot"not showing progress bar

Camera

• Crash with overwritten vrscene camera when used in animation

Chaos Vantage, v1.5.1

Official Release

Date - October 20, 2021

Fixes

Animation editor

• Render sequence renders only current fame
• Pause element not exported properly
• Scene camera in camera animation track cancelling other object animations

Live Link

• Incorrect transformation of objects, lights and cameras from Cinema 4D

Chaos Vantage, v1.5.0

Official Release

Date - October 19th, 2021

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New Features

Place tool

• Implemented Place tool mode for the Move tool with center cube to place objects on surface based on its normals

Camera

• Support for per camera resolution

Command Line

• Command line arguments using vantage_console.exe wrapper

Environment

• Flip horizontally option for the environment texture.

Material tab UI

• Material tab with thumbnails:
  • Render materials thumbnails
  • Preview scene settings
  • Number of columns option

Output

• Top/Bottom option for Stereo Cube 6x1 and Stereo spherical outputs
• FOV X and FOV Y have now decimal values instead of single integer

Modified

Live Link

• Render animation in Live Link session from 3ds Max (requires V-Ray for 3ds Max upcoming update)

Lights

• Save all lights parameters in .vantage file

UI

• Replaced denoiser slider in toolbar with an On/Off button when using the NVidia AI denoiser or Combined denoiser

Camera

• Enable imported cameras to be drag-able to Camera animation track

Animation editor

• Improved animation editor:
  • Shot editor mode
  • Auto transition
  • Time format - min, frames, combined
  • Force camera resolution for animation
  • Loop button
  • Create button before,after of selected elements, after the last element in the track, and on the play head line on transitions with options

Installer

• Removed Install V-Ray for 3ds Max Live link scripts option and from ||Customize|| > Customize User Interface > Toolbars > Chaos Vantage in 3ds Max
• Added option to associate . Vantage files so that they can be opened with Chaos Vantage from the explorer

Fixes

UI

• Wrong display of object hierarchy
• UI font bug when in non-latin OS
• Closing Cosmos Browser from 'X' doesn't update UI

Camera

• Automatic vertical tilt doesn't work correctly with scenes with Y-up axis

Lights

• Environment map is flipped from Cinema 4D
• Environment map not importing when "TexRGBTintMax"is used to color correct it

Multi GPU

• Black spots in denoised offline render on multi-GPU

vrscene file

• Incorrect transforms import of meshes in a hierarchy from Cinema 4D when using Cloner in Multi Instance mode
• Incorrect node visibility animation when some frames don't have a keyframe from Cinema 4D

Crash

• Crash on app launch with external GPUs

Chaos Vantage, v1.4.2

Official Release

Date - July 21st, 2021

New Features

Camera

• Support camera near and far clipping planes

Output

• Support for saving EXR (16-bit) images - the main image is linear, without color corrections and post-effects. Available channels: Bumped Normals, Depth, Screen Velocity, Albedo, Additional (Background & Lights)

Materials

• Basic support for the V-Ray Car Paint 2 Material

Modified

Materials

• Improve support for the V-Ray Car Paint Material

Fixes

Output

• Light gizmos are rendered in final sequence
• Chaos Vantage renders different frame number compared to Max
• Chaos Vantage renders 1 frame less than the full timeline

Animation editor

• Animation timeline cannot display more than 1 transient clips on the right
• Cannot select transient clip on the right of the timeline

Vantage file

• Can't save vantage file when path contains non-Latin characters

Crash

• Crash on app launch with external GPUs

Chaos Vantage, v1.4.1

Official Release

Date - July 2nd, 2021

New Features

Textures

• Support for Substance textures
• Support for SketchUp native textures and colorization

UX

• Implemented UI to specify rendering device(s)

Geometry

• Support for animated object visibility from a .vrscene file

Modified

UX

• Improved snapping and transforms windows:
  • Added 'S' as shortcut to toggle snap on/off
  • Don't hide the dialog when exiting free look mode and the window has been opened beforehand
  • Spinboxes display scene units
• Improved Offline render UI:
  • Added resolution preset
  • Added aspect ratio control

Geometry

• Support for Edge boundary checking in Forest Pack

Tools

• Support for importing camera parameters(static and animated) with 'Import changes from Vantage' tool in 3ds Max
• Imported cameras are now named [VANTAGE FILE NAME]_[CAMERA NAME]_###

Fixes

Camera

• Auto vertical tilt doesn't keep vertical lines in camera transitions
• Camera rolls while transitioning between two upright positions

UX

• Collision detection regression
• "Orbit" and "Look around" navigation are uncontrollable when on second monitor and >150% dpi scale
• Scene up vector is not applied correctly to merged .vrscenes/cosmos assets

Materials

• 2-Sided material doesn't work correctly in SketchUp/Rhino/Revit/Cinema4D

Textures

• Crash with TexMulti when it has an unsupported sub-texture connected to it
• Vantage doesn't match V-Ray when TexMulti has an empty textures list and random hue/sat/gamma

Tools

• "Overwrite existing" in "Import changes from Vantage" doesn't work for Chaos Vantage animated camera
• Camera Interpolations imported with "Import changes from Vantage" don't match camera interpolations in Chaos Vantage

Chaos Vantage, v1.4.0

Official Release

Date - June 17th, 2021

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New Features

Textures

• Support for the V-Ray MultiSubTex
• Support for MultiTexture(CGSource)
• Support for ForestColor

UX

• Transforms manipulation window
• Transform snapping

Modified

Тextures

• Extended support for V-Ray Triplanar texture - Random texture offset, Random texture rotation, Random frame rotation, Random axis, Random mode
• Extended support for V-Ray UVWRandomizer texture - Randomize by name, face ID, render ID, element, instance ID, object ID, particle ID, node handle

Fixes

Camera

• Difference in FOV and Focal length values between Max and Vantage
• Film gate and Focal length not importing correctly with multiple cameras
• Merged cameras get their focal length set from scene Home camera

UX

• Drag-n-drop gizmo isn't placed correctly with dedpi > 100%
• Inconsistency in Transparency overlay between NVIDIA AI and Combined/Vantage denoisers
• Focus distance shortcut functions like Pick focus tool - now behaves as a virtual focus distance slider by moving the mouse left and right.

Denoiser

• Super bright pixels become black with NVIDIA AI denoiser

vrscene

• Wrong position of objects with merged vrscenes with different meters_scale
• Light gizmos scale depending on .vrscene's scale

Chaos Vantage, v1.3.0

Official Release

Date - May 20th, 2021

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New Features

Materials

• Support for the V-Ray 2 Sided Material

Denoiser

• Implemented NVIDIA AI denoiser

Objects

• Support for object camera/reflection/refraction/overall visibility and cast/receive shadows properties

Camera

• Support for animated camera parameters from .vrscene - Focus distance, FOV, Focal length, Zoom factor, ISO, F-number, Shutter speed, Vertical/Horizontal Tilt/Shift

Modified

UX

• Implemented customizable shortcuts
• Moved Mouse and Keyboard Shortcuts menu under Edit menu
• Moved Navigation preset in Mouse and Keyboard Shortcuts menu
• Statistics for required additional memory in High Quality Snapshot and High Quality Sequence windows
• Input validation of input fields in UI with Enter, Tab or Space keys

Fixes

Live Link

• Incorrect update of materials when enabling/disabling certain features

Lights

• Mesh lights imported as point lights with incorrect intensity - they are now ignored instead

Output

• Wrong alpha channel when Light Cache is enabled

Chaos Vantage, v1.2.1

Official Release

Date - April 27, 2021

New Features

Materials

• Support for the "Reflect on back side" option in the V-Ray Material
• Support for the "Double-sided" option in the V-Ray Material

Modified

UX

• Enabled focus picker while in Live Link

Fixes

Materials

• Refract IOR affects reflections when Fresnel IOR is unlocked
• Glossy fresnel is not correct when using texture for Fresnel IOR

Chaos Cosmos Browser

• Wrong scaling of Chaos Cosmos assets when imported to a scene with non-centimeter scale

Chaos Vantage, v1.2.0

Official Release

Date - April 14, 2021

New Features

Materials

• Support for Clear coat in V-Ray Material
• Support for glossy Fresnel reflections

Camera

• Support for importing multiple cameras from one .vrscene file

Environment

• Background override option to affect refraction and mirror reflection rays

Output

• Support for saving .PNG files with alpha channel

Modified

UX

• Animation FPS in Vantage is set based on .vrscene
• Asset filtering options in the merge scene dialog on import
• Disabled tools in the UI that can't be used during Live Link
• Added specific gizmo shapes for lights depending on their type

.vrscene

• Improved performance when loading animated .vrscene

Fixes

Live Link

• Layer and object visibility changes breaking multi-materials in Live Link

Lights

• Broken disc and rectangle light when loading a new scene after disabling lights

Animation

• Precision issues with animation of rotating objects

Chaos Vantage, v1.1.1

Official Release

Date - March 16, 2021

Fixes

.vrscene

• Drop-Merge .vrscene doesn't place it to origin
• Freeze with .vrscenes containing multiple Nodes with same full name

Navigation

• Camera orbiting and transitions are incorrect for scenes from V-Ray for Cinema 4D

Sun

• Fixed Sky is not set correctly for scenes with Y up vector

UX

• Strange artifacts in viewport when using 'Flip Up Axis Y'
• Camera tab widens when opening 'Advanced Resolution Settings'

Chaos Vantage, v1.1.0

Official Release

Date - March 04, 2021

New Features

Chaos Cosmos

• Initial Chaos Cosmos asset library integration

Sun

• Geolocated Sun positioning

Improvements

.vrscene

• Improved support for .vrscenes coming from Cinema 4D

Materials

• Support for MtlMulti IDs larger than 31

UX

• Option to display advanced camera parameters as rollouts instead of popups (now default)
• Removed limited object translation distance
• Light source gizmos now visualize rotation

Fixes

Live Link

• Very rare case where Live Link may start with missing objects

High Quality Render

• Motion blur not working on multiple GPUs
• First frame of a HQ sequence having big motion blur

Textures

• Scenes from V-Ray for Sketchup 5.1 failing to render any textures

UX

• Viewport selection not working at specific resolutions
• Transform tools not respecting the single/group select mode
• Geometry disappearing after scaling it down to zero scale
• Advanced camera parameter popup not hiding when Camera tab is hidden
• Overlapping advanced camera parameter popups

Chaos Vantage, v1.0.2

Official Release

Date - February 02, 2021

New Features

UI

• Added Fog max opacity option

Fixes

Live Link

• Refractive materials render completely black with live link in Maya
• Update logic issues

High Quality Render

• Performance regression when high quality rendering is paused and resumed

Driver

• ColorCorrection texture and UVWGenChannel issues caused by 46x.xx series drivers

Chaos Vantage, v1.0.1

Official Release

Date - January 19, 2021

New Features

UI

• Added option for larger UI font

Modified

UI

• Tweaks of camera's Advanced parameters windows pop up behaviour
• Disabled video "Output file type" when rendering sequence with non-perspective camera

Fixes

Live Link

• Textures coming from V-Ray for Maya not working correctly

CPU

• Crash when working with CPU with very high thread count

Multi GPU

• Performance regression with noise threshold

Chaos Vantage, v1.0.0

Official Release

Date - December 02, 2020

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New Features

Environment Fog

• Added two environment fog layers with individual settings

UX

• Support for deleting objects in the scene
• Added "Place" functionality when drag and dropping .vrscene

Live Link

• Added option for installation of 3Ds Max live link scripts in installer

UI

• Added toggle opacity button in top toolbar
• Added option to make Chaos Vantage window always on top

Video

• Record the viewport to an .mp4 file in real time
• Added .mp4 and .mkv export type for animation

Offline Render

• Added denoising and motion blur option in render high-quality snapshot or sequence

Post

• Added color space setting for LUT files

Texture

• Added support for UVWGenRandomizer

Motion blur

• Support for motion blur in offline rendering

MAX Scripts

• Included in installer Initiate Live Link to Chaos Vantage, Export and send the current scene as static .vrscene to Chaos Vantage, Export and send the current animation range as a .vrscene to Chaos Vantage as well as the Import Changes from Chaos Vantage tools compatible with 3ds Max versions 2019, 2020 and 2021.

Modified

Material

• Improved bump support with scenes generated from V-Ray 5
• Improved bump parity between Chaos Vantage and V-Ray

Live Link

• Improved Live link support with all V-Ray 5 plugins supporting DR

UI

• Reworked Camera tab parameters layout
• Improved icon and camera thumbnail rendering for hi dpi monitors
• Increased environment "Intensity" cap to 1000
• Replaced EDITOR, LUT and BLOOM buttons with icons
• Added Feedback Program tab in Preferences menu
• Improved Shortcuts menu layout

Fixes

Material

• Bump does not render behind refractive objects

Camera

• Crash when deleting camera while in "Recording camera movement" mode
• "Level Camera" does not reset correctly camera roll with an Y scene_upDir

Multi GPU

• Creeping artifacts with 2 GPUs