Chaos Vantage 2 released

[s.balabanov]

Hello everyone,

Chaos Vantage 2 has been released - it adds a ton of new features and functionality. I'll list the major ones below, and the full list can be seen here.

• Added Scene States system for switching lights, materials, and objects variations
• Added render elements for compositing and masks
• Added support for light scattering fog (Volumetric fog)
• Added support for multiple UV channels, including opacity, bump and normal maps
• Added support for .vrscene file animated: vertices, vrmeshes, materials, texture and UV parameters, light parameters
• Added support for animated vrmesh/abc files during Live Link
• Added support for animated textures (image sequences) when using Live Link or loading .vrscene file
• Added support for NVIDIA upscaling denoiser in interactive mode, requires driver 530 or newer
• Added Intel Open Image Denoise denoiser (OIDN)
• Added support for reservoir resampling algorithm for direct lighting (RTXDI)
• Added Chaos Scatter
• Added experimental support for AMD GPUs
• Added support for statically subdivided geometry objects
• Added support for creation of lights from inside Vantage
• Added support for embedded vrscene nodes (VRayScene)
• Added support for VRmat materials
• Added object cloning functionality
• Added support for mesh lights (improved with reservoir resampling enabled)
• Added support for Vertex Color
• Added support for orthographic camera
• Added an option for saving render elements as separate .png and .jpeg images
• Added support for repeat/offset U/V for UVWGenMaya when not using shading graphs (e.g. for bump maps)
• Added support for Vertex snapping when moving objects
• Added helper onscreen text for gizmo manipulators
• Added functionality to quickly place the pivot on the object's bounding box boundaries
• Added functionality to scale the render resolution by percentage
• Added camera grouping functionality
• Added rendering quality presets slider
• Added Home Screen at startup
• Added 'Open Scene Location' to the File menu
• Added support for HDR displays
• Added support for camera render resolution from .vrscene file
• Added support for all options of the Advanced mode of the Color Correction texture from 3ds Max
• Added support for instanced lights via Forest pack and Railclone
• Added support for V-Ray override material (MtlOverride)
• Added support for animations outside the imported vrscene range
• Added functionality for specifying the frame ranges for sequence rendering
• and more...

You can find the full change log here:
https://docs.chaos.com/x/DgihAw

You can download the new version from here:
https://download.chaos.com/?platform=47&product=63

Our friends at Brick Visuals created this amazing video with Vantage and you can see it here:

Thank you all for your support! We hope you enjoy this major release!

Best regards,
The Chaos Vantage team

[yusofadibmanesh]

Unfortunately, there are very few tutorial videos about Chaos Vantage!

I checked udemy, linkedin learning, but I didn't find the tutorial!

There are only very beginner tutorials on YouTube!