Chaos Vantage v3.2.0 released

Vantage Announcements
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Hello everyone!

Update 2 for Chaos Vantage 3 has just been released and here are the major highlights:

  • Implemented a Toon post effect functionality.
  • Water surface object’s animation can now be previewed in real-time. An Affect water option is added in the Wind rollout in the Environment tab to toggle on/off the real-time preview.​
  • Implemented Circle, Infinite and Custom shapes for the Water surface object.​
  • Support for VR joysticks teleportation and object manipulation.​
  • Support for creating and importing Gaussian splats objects.​
  • Implemented Smoke expansion and Temperature expansion properties to the Fluid simulator object to allow for more control over the simulation.
  • Functionality to export VDB cache files from the Fluid simulator object.
  • ​A new “Create Objects” button in the toolbar provides a single, unified place for all available object creation.​
  • Functionality to offset X and Y for Background Image in Screen mode.​
  • Improved multi-GPU performance.
  • Improved performance of the fluid simulator.
  • ​Creation of the fluid simulator object now automatically sets the selected objects as emitters.​
  • and more…

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​You can find more information here:
Chaos Vantage – Pure ray tracing in real-time | Chaos

To get started, visit this link:
**https://try.chaos.com/chaos-vantage**​

You can find the full change log here:
Release notes

You can download the new version and hydra delegate from here:
Download Vantage 3
Download Vantage Hydra delegate

We look forward to your invaluable feedback and insights! ​Thank you all for your support!

Best regards,
The Chaos Vantage team​​​​​

2

Hello everyone!

Hotfix 1 for Chaos Vantage 3, update 2 has been released and here are the changes:

New features and Improvements

  • Improved Toon post effect outline rendering quality, including outlines on Gaussian splats and when using DLSS or other upscaling.
  • Improved Fluid simulator advection and smoke mass conservation.
  • Moon can now be rendered behind the sun disc, enabling solar eclipse effect.

Fixes

  • Live Link from 3ds Max failing with V-Ray DR2 builds.
  • Output file frame suffix not set correctly in some Live Link sequence renders.
  • ​Crash when renaming a camera group after deleting a group that is not the last​
  • Visual discrepancy between the moon rendered in Vantage and in V-Ray for SketchUp/Rhino.​
  • Undo/redo queue history breaking during a VR session.
  • Wrong VR stereo tilt.
  • VR view direction not updating correctly.
  • ​Object size in Scale type-in dialog not calculated correctly for rotated objects and in Local coordinate mode.​

You can find the full change log here:
Release notes

You can download the new version from here:
Download Vantage

Best regards,
The Chaos Vantage team​

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“Vantage’s UI and operation logic—can you refer to your Envision? Vantage’s operation logic is too anti-intuitive/human. In comparison, Envision understands what people really need.”