Chaos Vantage v1.5.2 released

Hello everyone!

We are back with a new update - v1.5.2. Here are the highlights:

  • Added configurable material preview swatches, and an updated Materials UI tab
  • Added new Live Link animation render button in 3ds Max
  • Changes made to lights are now saved to .vantage files
  • Added top/bottom option for stereo output
  • Added command line wrapper vantage_console.exe (see vantage_console.exe --help)
  • Added .vantage file association in Windows Explorer
  • Improved translation tool: now does surface placement with the center cube
  • Improved animation editor: multiple UI tweaks, new “Shot” mode
  • Improved UI: added more tooltips
  • Improved performance when loading a .vantage file that imports Cosmos assets

You can find the full change log here:

You can download the update from here:

Edit: We released a quick hotfix that can be downloaded from the same link above.

You can see some of the new features in use here:

Best regards.
The Chaos Vantage team

Hello everyone!
We released a new version 1.5.3 and it has the following improvements:

  • Implemented HDRI environment and dome light creation and updating
  • Material name searching, type filtering and sorting(name and creation)
  • Select the material of the selected object button
  • Drag-and-drop material assignment with preview
  • Alt+drag-and-drop replaces material on all object with same material
  • Ctrl+drag-and-drop assigns material to objects and its children
  • Initial support for ply, obj, bin, geo, hclassic, bgeo, bhclassic, prt, alembic (static) files
  • Optimized memory usage of texture files with a single color
  • Optimized memory usage for material previews
  • Cosmos browser doesn’t show importer choice inside Chaos Vantage when multiple importers are running
  • Motion blur is not allowed for non-perspective (Cube 6x1, Spherical and stereo) cameras.

For the full change log click here:

You can download the update from here:

Best regards.
The Chaos Vantage team