Chaos Vantage v3.3.0 released

Vantage Vantage :: Announcements
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Hello everyone!

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

  • Added DLSS Frame Generation with 2x up to 4x generated frames
  • Integrate Chaos Veras to use snapshots directly from the Vantage viewport
  • Added Wet effects (Beta): wetting, puddles, animated ripples, wobble and static surface drops
  • Added support for Gaussian Splat relighting
  • Introduced a material node editor (Beta)
  • Added support for bump mapping for procedural, Triplanar and Randomizer maps (support for bump maps through the shading graph system)
  • Added support for the Hair material in V-Ray for SketchUp and Rhino
  • Added ability to load scenes from Chaos Anima projects in Vantage
  • Added support for the VRayParallax texture
  • ​Added support for the V-Ray LightCylinder light
  • Fluid Volume simulator improvements:
    • Added a new “Cache” mode
    • Added option for negative start time
    • Added a “Vortices scale” option in the “Dynamics” tab
    • Added new shape options - mesh, plane and circle, for bodies interacting in the fluid simulation
    • Added support for handling rotational motion of bodies in the fluid simulation
  • Added Color mixer color correction
  • Added include/exclude objects for toon outlines
  • Added a search filter to drop-down menus and clickable labels
  • Added support for the Scatter cluster painting mode in V-Ray for SketchUp and Rhino
  • Added Eyedropper tool in Color swatch
  • Added support for rendering images from the command line
  • 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​​​​​

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Hello everyone!

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

New Features and Improvements

  • Support for Chaos Anima 7.
  • Simulation-driven turn signal and brake lights for vehicles from anima projects and anipack files.
  • A new preset in the Render mode resolution dropdown quickly matches the DCC app’s resolution when it requests a Live Link animation.
  • A new world axis gizmo in the viewport shows the scene’s world orientation.
  • Improved Fluid simulator quality with a new multi-grid projection method for better incompressibility and smoke conservation.

Fixes

  • Open Image Denoise initialization crash on AMD GPUs.
  • TDR/device hang on AMD RDNA4 GPUs with certain scenes on new drivers.
  • Incorrect rendering of certain Gaussian splat files.
  • Water surface projections along X or Y renders incorrectly.
  • Volume and fluid simulation gizmos disappearing when a Cosmos asset is imported into the scene.
  • and more…

​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​