Lens flares

[eric_barbaron]

Hi Choas team,
first...Thx a lot for your great job.
Vantage is amazing.

Some options would still be welcome like:

-lensflares (like in vray)
-animated textures (ifl)
-compatibility with anima 4

did you plane anything of these upadtes?

Big thx in advance

[Alexander.Atanasov]

Hi eric_barbaron,

Lens flares, animated ifl textures and animated deformable geo(such as animated characters in anima) are in the TO DO list but cannot give ETA at the moment. With the latest release (1.5.0+) you could use the Render animation with live link script to render animated deformable meshes(including anima). There is a bug however with the anima characters (you can check the post here:https://forums.chaos.com/forum/chaos...axyz-4d-people )which we are investigating. Support for deformable gemetry inside Vantage (without Live Link) is also in the TO DO list but nothing concrete as time frame for now.

Best regards,
Alexander

[eric_barbaron]

Hello Alexander,
thx for your reply.

Hop i will be soon ...Its so important for us


I'll be waiting !!!

[eric_barbaron]

Hi Alexander,
the last update render with live link is very usefull and work great.
The only 2 missing options for us in vantage right now are the lens flare and the environnement fog.

Are there in the next updates?

[Alexander.Atanasov]

Hi eric_barbaron,

The lens flares are still not coming to Vantage but are not forgotten and they will be implemented at some point.
By "environnement fog" you probably mean volumetric fog that can generate god ray and light shaft effects, right? That feature is also not going to be implemented soon but it is in out list. Currently there are 2 fog layers implemented but they are more of an areal perspective, without the light occlusion you get from a true volume fog. You can check from the docs page their parameters https://docs.chaos.com/display/LAV/Lights+tab

Best regards,
Alexander

[npg]

If you render an EXR with Vantage, you should be able to open it in the V-Ray VFB (File->Load image) and apply effects to it.