Chaos Vantage official release

[s.balabanov]

Dear beta testers,

Thank you all for your participation in the Project Lavina beta. The beta is over and Project Lavina now has its official name: Chaos Vantage. We are excited to let you know that today we have officially released Chaos Vantage.

Project Lavina builds will continue to work until 01 January 2021. To keep using the product, you'll need to obtain a license. Chaos Vantage is available as an annual license. You can get a free 1-year license until June 2, 2021 from the official Chaos Vantage page here:

https://www.chaosgroup.com/vantage

Once you've got your license through the website, you can download the Chaos Vantage builds from the downloads page here:

https://download.chaosgroup.com/?platform=47&product=63

In this release we have added lots of new features and improvements:

• Added two environment fog layers with individual settings
• Added support for deleting objects in the scene
• Added support for fog color in V-Ray Mtl
• Added "Place" functionality when drag and dropping .vrscene
• Added toggle opacity button in top toolbar for easier access
• Added recording of the viewport to a .mp4 file in real time
• Added .mp4 and .mkv export type for animation
• Added support for UVWGenRandomizer
• Added support for motion blur during viewport capturing and offline rendering
• Added Chaos Vantage toolbar in 3ds Max for easier interoperability
• Added option for denoising and motion blur in render high quality snapshot or sequence
• Improved bump support with scenes generated from V-Ray 5
• Improved bump parity between Chaos Vantage and V-Ray
• Enabled Live link with official release of V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max
• Various bug fixes and UI improvements

Full change log can be found here.

What's more, we're announcing a competition called 'Building Utopia' - an international competition for all artists & designers of every skill set. Show what you can do with real-time ray tracing in Chaos Vantage using 3D models from KitBash3D for a chance to win a Lenovo ThinkPad P15, powered by a NVIDIA RTX GPU! For details & rules and entering the competition click here:

https://buildingutopia.cgarchitect.com/

We're excited to see what you will create with Chaos Vantage! Needless to say, please keep sharing your feedback.

Thank you and stay safe!
The Chaos Vantage Team

[s.balabanov]

Hello everyone!

We released a hotfix that includes the following:

• Added option for larger UI font
• Fixed crash when working with cpu with very high thread count
• Fixed textures coming from a live link from V-Ray for Maya not working correctly
• Fixed Performance regression with noise threshold and multi-GPU
• Improved UI - Tweaks of camera's Advanced parameters windows pop up behavior
• Improved UI - disabled video "Output file type" when rendering sequence with non-perspective camera

You can download it from here:
https://download.chaosgroup.com/?platform=47&product=63

Thank you and stay safe!
The Chaos Vantage Team

[s.balabanov]

Hello everyone!

We released a hotfix that includes the following:

• Added maximum fog opacity parameter
• Fixed refractive materials that rendered completely black with Live Link from Maya
• Fixed some Live Link update logic issues
• Fixed performance regression and broken video output when high quality rendering is paused and resumed
• Fixed bugs with the ColorCorrection texture and UVWGenChannel caused by 46x.xx series drivers

You can download it from here:
https://download.chaosgroup.com/?platform=47&product=63

Thank you and stay safe!
The Chaos Vantage Team