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Hi Vantage team,
Here i will list a few suggestions that to my opinion make a lot of sense and will help chaos vantage workflow improve:
1. clone, duplicate possibillity. As soon as you open a landscape scene in Vantage , with a few trees, and shrubs, grass, it would be very useful for architects to be able select a bunch of trees or grass and copy multiple times. This will make Vantage the best software for landscape design that exist, cause it will be so easy to create custom landscapes that a kid will be able to do a job that now requires software knowledge such as Forest pack.. I remember earlier version of Lavina, included duplicate, but later was taken back.
2. a basic scattering tool inside Vantage will be very useful. This way you drag and drop objects from Cosmos browser and distribute to create easily more complicated landscapes. This refers to suggestion n.1, that you can scatter manually if duplicate, clone would be supported.
3. possibility to add shortkeys. Chaos Vantage is a tool that is magical exactly because gives you manipulation of your scene with a few shortcuts, so it is important that each user can improve routine gestures with shorkeys, If this not possible , then add a shorkey for moving pivot and make it work so that you middle mouse click and the pivot is placed where you click. This is how it works is UE4 and is awesome.
4. Better implementation of cosmos objects and vrscenes, regardless what system units have been used in 3ds max. Right now if system units in Max is meters, cosmos objects come in wrong scale.
5.make center pivot to selection possible. Very often i bring a vrscene in vantage, i place it or merge it and pivot is lost, and I have to lose a lot of time to center the pivot so that my objects can be manipulated.
6. when saving a vantage scene and open it later, ligths parameters are lost and have to reconfigure, like shadows bias... or enable shadows... In general make save vantage scene more stable, if possible give an option that you can archive this scene so that when you open on a different pc or if you want to send the whole scene, it willl always works exactly as it used to when you closed vantage. Right now my biggest fear is what i will get when i open a Vantage scene I created some time ago.
7.make it possible to keyframe sun position, in the animation timeline, This will make it very easy to create this beautiful timelapse videos that is so valuable for architects. In general add in the animation timeline a third bar, that will be the animation for the lights, This way you could manipulate animation of lights the same way you do for cameras, and great possilbilities will come out of this, such as an animation of the same scene from night iluminated with artificial ligths, to a day of moving sun. Here I would consider support of animated hdris, showing the change of sky during the day and how this affects the lighting of your scene.
8.make a button in 3ds max that will export import to vantage only selected objects and another button for exporting selected animations. Right now I have to do this manually through export selected vrscene. This will save huge amount of time.
9. when drag and drop to place an animated scene in vantage, no matter where you place it , it will be placed at the origin place that it is in 3ds max, when playing the animation. For instance when I place animation of human figures ( by the way i am importing 3ds max bones as for the time being skin modifier is not supported) i would like to be able to place them as I am creating the composition of the video inside Vantage to where i find match better.
10. bring vertex animation or allembic. this will allow for a huge improvement in aesthetics of videos created with Vantage, like trees moving by the wind, curtains, animated people,animated water, elements that will make Vantage a real video production software.
11.make it possible inside cosmos library to add custom libraries. Libraries is a game changer, that lead many architects to Enscape, Twinmotion, Lumion. I believe that who implements the most functioning libraries will be leading the visualization software. A general wish to Chaos group is to make vray proxies store materials and textures.This way you will have the most intuitive workflow that can exist. Just drag and drop proxies inside Vantage.
12.make a slider that shows coordinates of an object. Very ofter when I drag and drop a scene inside another scene inside Vantage the new scene comes far away and I have to spend a lot of time to bring it to the correct place. Maybe you can think of a better way to snap or....
13. Support for phoenix fd animations.
14.when you change material on an object inside Vantage, and then you reopen the scene later this change usually is lost. In general make materials more functional, for instance make it possible to pick the material of a selected object, or just highlight the material of the selected object interactively the same way objects are hightlighted when you select an object in the viewport.
15.add very few color correction possibilities, like in Corona. Mainly the one missing a lot is contrast, or curves so that you can edit separately shadows, midtones and highlights. If we have contrast then by playing around with the existing exposure, white balance of camera, and highlight burn we would be able to generate much better moods for our videos.
In general I cant stress enough what a great tool Vantage is , and how in my opinion is changing for ever the visualization process. thank you for all your efforts to make this software better each time.
Here i will list a few suggestions that to my opinion make a lot of sense and will help chaos vantage workflow improve:
1. clone, duplicate possibillity. As soon as you open a landscape scene in Vantage , with a few trees, and shrubs, grass, it would be very useful for architects to be able select a bunch of trees or grass and copy multiple times. This will make Vantage the best software for landscape design that exist, cause it will be so easy to create custom landscapes that a kid will be able to do a job that now requires software knowledge such as Forest pack.. I remember earlier version of Lavina, included duplicate, but later was taken back.
2. a basic scattering tool inside Vantage will be very useful. This way you drag and drop objects from Cosmos browser and distribute to create easily more complicated landscapes. This refers to suggestion n.1, that you can scatter manually if duplicate, clone would be supported.
3. possibility to add shortkeys. Chaos Vantage is a tool that is magical exactly because gives you manipulation of your scene with a few shortcuts, so it is important that each user can improve routine gestures with shorkeys, If this not possible , then add a shorkey for moving pivot and make it work so that you middle mouse click and the pivot is placed where you click. This is how it works is UE4 and is awesome.
4. Better implementation of cosmos objects and vrscenes, regardless what system units have been used in 3ds max. Right now if system units in Max is meters, cosmos objects come in wrong scale.
5.make center pivot to selection possible. Very often i bring a vrscene in vantage, i place it or merge it and pivot is lost, and I have to lose a lot of time to center the pivot so that my objects can be manipulated.
6. when saving a vantage scene and open it later, ligths parameters are lost and have to reconfigure, like shadows bias... or enable shadows... In general make save vantage scene more stable, if possible give an option that you can archive this scene so that when you open on a different pc or if you want to send the whole scene, it willl always works exactly as it used to when you closed vantage. Right now my biggest fear is what i will get when i open a Vantage scene I created some time ago.
7.make it possible to keyframe sun position, in the animation timeline, This will make it very easy to create this beautiful timelapse videos that is so valuable for architects. In general add in the animation timeline a third bar, that will be the animation for the lights, This way you could manipulate animation of lights the same way you do for cameras, and great possilbilities will come out of this, such as an animation of the same scene from night iluminated with artificial ligths, to a day of moving sun. Here I would consider support of animated hdris, showing the change of sky during the day and how this affects the lighting of your scene.
8.make a button in 3ds max that will export import to vantage only selected objects and another button for exporting selected animations. Right now I have to do this manually through export selected vrscene. This will save huge amount of time.
9. when drag and drop to place an animated scene in vantage, no matter where you place it , it will be placed at the origin place that it is in 3ds max, when playing the animation. For instance when I place animation of human figures ( by the way i am importing 3ds max bones as for the time being skin modifier is not supported) i would like to be able to place them as I am creating the composition of the video inside Vantage to where i find match better.
10. bring vertex animation or allembic. this will allow for a huge improvement in aesthetics of videos created with Vantage, like trees moving by the wind, curtains, animated people,animated water, elements that will make Vantage a real video production software.
11.make it possible inside cosmos library to add custom libraries. Libraries is a game changer, that lead many architects to Enscape, Twinmotion, Lumion. I believe that who implements the most functioning libraries will be leading the visualization software. A general wish to Chaos group is to make vray proxies store materials and textures.This way you will have the most intuitive workflow that can exist. Just drag and drop proxies inside Vantage.
12.make a slider that shows coordinates of an object. Very ofter when I drag and drop a scene inside another scene inside Vantage the new scene comes far away and I have to spend a lot of time to bring it to the correct place. Maybe you can think of a better way to snap or....
13. Support for phoenix fd animations.
14.when you change material on an object inside Vantage, and then you reopen the scene later this change usually is lost. In general make materials more functional, for instance make it possible to pick the material of a selected object, or just highlight the material of the selected object interactively the same way objects are hightlighted when you select an object in the viewport.
15.add very few color correction possibilities, like in Corona. Mainly the one missing a lot is contrast, or curves so that you can edit separately shadows, midtones and highlights. If we have contrast then by playing around with the existing exposure, white balance of camera, and highlight burn we would be able to generate much better moods for our videos.
In general I cant stress enough what a great tool Vantage is , and how in my opinion is changing for ever the visualization process. thank you for all your efforts to make this software better each time.
Most of the things you asked for are already on our roadmap. I will try to answer some of the points:
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