Chaos Vantage Command Line Options

This page provides information about the command-line parameters available for Chaos Vantage.

Overview

Chaos Vantage can be run from Windows' Command Prompt with the command-line arguments below.

General

-help (-h) – Prints all available arguments.

-version (-v) – Prints current installed version, build number, build hash, build date of Chaos Vantage.

-quiet (-q) – Doesn't print rendering progress.

-debugLogFile (-dLog) – Outputs the debug log to a specified file. If the file could not be accessed or created, the default one (in %AppData% or %TEMP%) will be used.

-linkPort=<integer> (-lp) – Sets Live Link port.

-sceneFile=<filename> (-s) – Loads specified scene file.

-configFile=<filename> (-conf) – Loads specified .vantage file.

-camera=<name> (-cam) – Sets render camera.

-sceneStateName=<name> (-ssName) – Applies the specified scene state.

Devices(GPUs)

-deviceList (-dl) – Prints a list of devices available for rendering.

-device=<integer> (-d) - Uses the device at given index in the list. Can be passed multiple times.

Render Job

-outputFile=<filename> (-o) – If this is set, Vantage renders the image in 'offline' mode. See following arguments:

-outputWidth=<integer> (-ow) – Output file width in pixels (128 to 16384).

-outputHeight=<integer> (-oh) – Output file height in pixels (128 to 16384).

-cameraType=<integer> (-ct) – Specifies the type of the camera.

0 – Physical
1 – Cube6x1
2 – Cube6x1Stereo
3 – Spherical
4 – SphericalStereo
5 – Orthographic

-cameraOrthoWidth=<float> (-cow) – Specifies the width (in scene units) of the orthographic camera that controls how much of a scene the camera can see.

-cameraFovX=<float> (-cfx) – Spherical camera field of view in degrees (horizontal).

-cameraFovY=<float> (-cfy) – Spherical camera field of view in degrees (vertical).

-frames=<range> – If this is set, an animation sequence is rendered (otherwise just one still image). Format is 'startFrame-endFrame' (e.g. 0-100).

-samples=<integer> – Specifies samples per frame when rendering to output file.

-noiseThreshold=<float> (-nt) – Specifies noise threshold for offline rendering (0.0 to 1.0).

-autoExposure=<boolean> – Specifies whether to apply auto-exposure for offline rendering.

-denoiser=<boolean> – Specifies whether to use the denoiser for offline rendering.

-antiFlicker=<boolean> – Temporally stable denoising for animations (if denoiser is on).

-lightCache=<boolean> (-lc) – Specifies whether to use the Light Cache for offline rendering.

-motionBlur=<boolean> (-mb) – Specifies whether to enable post-process motion blur for offline rendering.

-pngAlpha=<boolean> – Specifies whether to save the alpha channel if the output type is PNG.

-autoClose=<boolean> – Quits after completing the offline render job. Defaults to ON when started from the console wrapper.