Update: Chaos Vantage Update 7, Build 1.7.0 Available

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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

Menu

• Added New option in the File menu to create a new empty scene 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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