Chaos Vantage v3.4.0 released

Vantage Announcements
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​Hello everyone!

Update 4 for Chaos Vantage 3 has just been released and here are the major highlights:

  • Added support for the OpenPBR material
  • Added support for VRScans materials
  • Added support for V-Ray Enmesh
  • Added support for the V-Ray Curvature texture and partial support for the V-Ray Distance texture
  • Added support for the anisotropy, thin film, sheen and dispersion parameters of the VRayMtl
  • Added support for light decay options for V-Ray lights
  • Added support for V-Ray Triplanar with different textures on each axis and direction
  • Added native support for the MaterialX color space transform, normal map and bump nodes
  • Added creation of Basic mesh objects: plane, box, sphere, disc, cylinder and cone with editable parameters
  • Added Focus mode options for camera depth of field: Fixed distance, Fixed point, Center view and Object
  • Added support for animated camera FOV, zoom and orthographic width coming from the DCC
  • Scene states now store Fur, Scatter, Decal and other object properties, as well as material properties
  • DLSS is upgraded to version 4.5, with a new preset selector in Preferences dialog
  • Fire & Smoke(previously named Fluid simulator) simulator improvements:
    • Added presets for easy setup of Fire/Smoke simulations
    • Added an “Auto vortices scale” option in the simulation options
    • Added a button that automatically fills the list of interacting fluid bodies
  • Added include/exclude object lists for Wet effects and global Ambient Occlusion
  • Added a Max texture resolution option to reduce memory usage
  • Added a new Layers view in the Scene outliner, showing the layers created in the DCC app
  • Added new Scene Changes and Scene State Changes dialogs that list every edit made against the original scene
  • Added Windows toast notifications for available updates, finished renders and sequences, saved snapshots, and warnings/errors
  • and more…

You can find more information here:
** https://www.chaos.com/vantage **

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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I love the Windows toast notifications!

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Intel Open Image Denoiser not working with Only final pass bug fixed! Didn’t find it mentioned in the logs. Much appreciated! :raising_hands:

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Enmesh, curvature, scans and finally -the divine distance :slight_smile: It’s arguably the most significant update! (IMO only 2 major things left - fast new caustics and enhancer) Thank you very much for your hard work​:folded_hands:

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I’m concerned that there aren’t any detailed blog posts about Chaos Vantage version 3.4.0, even though it’s an important product.

The release notes do not mention Emmesh support.