Update: Chaos Vantage Update 7, Build 1.7.0 Available

March 30, 2022

Chaos Vantage, previously Project Lavina, makes real-time real simple. Getting your scene ready for real-time is often considered time-consuming and difficult. But it’s as easy as just dragging and dropping in Chaos Vantage. Even in detailed production scenes, you’ll be exploring and interacting in no time.

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Read the release notes, for Chaos Vantage Update 7, Build 1.7.0 below.

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Chaos Vantage Update 7, Build 1.7, Release Notes

New Features

Textures

Support for normal maps

Clay mode

Added white/clay mode override in the Material tab with options to preserve original material’s reflection, refraction, bump, opacity and self illumination Details

Ambient occlusion

Added global ambient occlusion option in the Lights tab Details

Sun animation

Implemented Animated Geolocated sun and Sun track in the animation editor for easy sun time lapse animation Details

Navigation

Support for 3DConnexion SpaceMouse controller

Supported output formats

Implemented .jpg/.jpeg file type output

Modified

Ambient light

Added ambient light color swatch Details
Increased ambient light intensity limit to 1000000

UX

Implemented ‘Camera enqueu mode’ in Render setup dialog to add all scene cameras at once in the render queue Details
Shows .vantage file name in recent file list and title bar after saving scene
Camera clipping planes are now taken into account when determining the dolly/orbit/zoom pivot point
Abort button now aborts the entire render queue
Render dialog retains render queue when closed
Sequence mode is not allowed when no sequence is available

Fixes

.vantage file

The .vrscene environment texture is not used when loading a .vrscene with an associated .vantage file

Memory

Memory leak when HQ rendering with denoiser

Live link

Changing a VRayLight from Plane to Dome not updating correctly

Camera

Crash when renaming a camera

Geometry

Crash when deleting objects

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Chaos Vantage Update 6

There doesn’t appear to be a video available yet for this release but check out what was new in update 6.

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