Chaos vantage needs urgent improovements

[garipodelu]

We have been using Vantage on and off for a while now and this software is awesome and we love how it kept evolving. We are dealing with a complex project with multiple cameras and during development we ran into a lot of issues that I will list below. Maybe some of you with more experience can give feedback about these issues.
Because of the multiple sequences that we need to render we wanted to have a central file with all the views and cameras so that we can let them render overnight. We exported the max file into vantage, created scene sets for every view and a render queue.
- I noticed that after importing the cameras into vantage you cannot adjust the setting because they reset to the default values when scrolling the timeline. A camera state would have solved this. The only way to bypass this was to adjust the camera settings in max and reexport it to vantage which is time consuming. Is there a better way to do this?
- I found myself missing the option to apply the scene states to the sequences in the timeline so that when scrolling it inside vantage I get a visual feedback for every scene (not just one scene state applied to the whole timeline). I hope I was clear enough on this one.
- Another issue is a UI/UX onoe. In the render queue window you don't have any visual indicator for the selected render task and when you are dealing with multiple ones you can apply wrong settings by mistake.
I couldn't find any way to rename the render tasks (assign custom names)
If you have Scene States with long names, because the Render queue window is not scalable and doesn't have horizontal scrolling, those render tasks cannot be accessed anymore and also you cannot delete them. See attached screenshot.

[Alexander.Atanasov]

Hi garipodelu,

I noticed that after importing the cameras into vantage you cannot adjust the setting because they reset to the default values when scrolling the timeline.

On imported animated cameras you cannot change the parameters as every frame their properties are recalled. You could use the Update button for the camera but this will lose any animation that there is for that camera. Unfortunately currently there isn't a way to modify parameters to an imported animated camera without losing data.

I found myself missing the option to apply the scene states to the sequences in the timeline so that when scrolling it inside vantage I get a visual feedback for every scene (not just one scene state applied to the whole timeline)

Do you have assigned scene states to the cameras in the animation track? If you do the scene should update when the camera with a set state is reached.

In the render queue window you don't have any visual indicator for the selected render task and when you are dealing with multiple ones you can apply wrong settings by mistake.

Yes, we are aware of this and we are working on an improvement but cannot give you a time frame for when it will be available.

I couldn't find any way to rename the render tasks (assign custom names)

I have logged your request in our system under LAV-2100. I cannot provide an ETA on them but keep an eye out in the Announcement section of the forum where we post when new builds are available with their changelogs.

If you have Scene States with long names, because the Render queue window is not scalable and doesn't have horizontal scrolling,

Thank you for reporting it. I have logged the issue in our system under LAV-2101.

Best regards,
Alexander