Chaos Vantage
Chaos Vantage has powerful capabilities enabling you to convey your designs more effectively. Whether you are creating beautiful still renders of architecture or product designs, or you’re a media production specialist making animations or films, then you’ll love Chaos Vantage’s real-time rendering. Chaos Vantage helps to eliminate the lengthy processing times required by traditional rendering tools, which means you can see your changes without waiting hours for your project to render.
Chaos Vantage integrates with other Chaos products, like V-ray, making this a powerful combination for visualising your designs.
Toggle between different moods and variations of your project with the scene states. Visualise realistic vegetation moving in the wind and animated people interacting with their design. Composite your images with support for popular render elements like “back to beauty” and material and object masks.
Use Chaos Vantage as an Archviz Artist
Explore and present unlimited design variations by switching between material schemes, lighting configurations, and design options.
See every aspect of your scene as you model with the real-time companion view. Unaffected by scene size, monitor a highly realistic perspective of your model as you adjust materials, lighting, and geometry.
Render super-fast, producing high-quality renderings and animations at a quality level that makes approvals easy.
Use Chaos Vantage as a VFX Professional
Playblasts at exceptional quality that convey the actual materials and lighting of your production for far more meaningful review and approval.
Previz with full-size scenes, that can be reused in production. Ray tracing in real-time without scene simplification or baking, using the same materials and lighting as your production team.
A real-time ray-traced view that closely matches your production rendering results as you finalise your scene. Also perfect for over-the-shoulder discussions while making decisions.
Why Choose Chaos Vantage?
Scene states – Assign different light setups, materials, object transformation, and post-process looks to different cameras. Easily recall and send them for batch rendering.
Deformed meshes – Animate people and vegetation and create richer animations for your project presentations.
Scatter – Populate your scenes with millions of objects in just a few clicks. Our new scatter tool allows you to quickly and easily create forests, fields, crowds, and more.
Render elements – Add the most popular render elements, as well as object and material masks, to fine-tune your images in post.
No Setup – All you need to do is drag and drop a complete V-Ray scene into Chaos Vantage to start exploring. There’s no geometry to optimise, no lighting to bake, and no UVs to unwrap.
Think Big – Built to handle even large, complex scenes with billions of polygons, Vantage is the fastest way to see the detail of your scenes in real-time.
Easy Navigation – Move through your scene just like a game, or with controls similar to your 3D software. Automatic collision detection means you can walk up stairs, and won’t walk through walls.
100% Ray Traced – Using physically based cameras, lights, materials, and global illumination, Vantage offers fully ray traced real-time renders for the most realistic results.
Simple and Fast Animation – Create, edit, and render animation right within Vantage. Perfect for previsualisation, animate between cameras, apply transitions, and arrange your sequence.
Live Link – Get a live view of your ray-traced scene inside 3ds Max with Live Link.
Chaos Vantage Key Features
Decal With Cylindrical Projection:
Easily add stickers, labels, and other graphics to flat surfaces or cylindrical objects like bottles and jars. Adjust the Decal’s projection to perfectly align with the object’s surface curvature in just a few clicks.
UDIM Texture Support
With UDIM texture support, UV mapping and texturing workflows become easier, simplifying UV map generation and texture assignment. Additionally, Vantage is now capable of rendering UDIMs.
Support for VRayBlendMtl
Elevate the art of material blending in your Vantage projects with the newly added support for VRayBlendMtl. This feature allows you to layer and mix complex materials in a physically based way to achieve a photorealistic look.
Hair & Fur
Create realistic carpets, rugs, animal pelts and even grass with Vantage’s support for V-Ray Fur. You can also achieve lifelike hair with precise highlights and customizable glint and glitter controls with the support for VRayHairNextMtl.
Multi-matte Render Element
With the new Multi Matte render element you have even more control over your rendered images in compositing. It enables selective object isolation, efficient post-production workflows, and fine-tuned masking for achieving pixel-perfect precision in every render.
Displacement
Create intricate geometric details from textures, ideal for designing bas-reliefs, pavements, brick/stone walls, and similar structures that are challenging to model manually.
NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 Denoiser
NVIDIA’s AI-powered DLSS 3.5 denoiser enhances rendering speeds by up to three times while preserving visual fidelity. It employs Ray Reconstruction to sharpen images and reduce noise while panning around a scene.
Refraction Glossiness
Create realistic frosted glass effects using the newly added refraction glossiness parameter in V-Ray Material.
Scene States
Assign different light setups, materials, object transformation, and post-process looks to other cameras. Add animations for smooth transitions between different states. Easily recall and send them for batch rendering.
Light Creation and Placement
You can now create various types of lights directly in Vantage. Use the advanced placement options to achieve lookdev directly in Vantage without any DCC dependency.
Camera Grouping with States Override
Enjoy a much better and more structured method of grouping cameras and assigning states to these groups. Perfect for over-the-shoulder discussion with clients.
HDR Monitor Support
Make your projects extra radiant with HDR monitor support.
Plus…
- Deforming meshes: Bring people and vegetation to life and create richer animations for your project presentations.
- Render Elements: Add the most popular render elements, as well as object and material masks, to fine-tune your images in post.
- Support for Anima4D assets: Vnntage has partnered with AXYZ to provide support for its high-quality 3D library of animated 4D people and crowds.
- Extended animations: Take even more .vrscene animation effects into Vantage. From flickering and fading lights to animating the tiling offset, your animated materials, textures, and lights now work seamlessly in Vantage.
- Scatter: Populate your scenes with millions of objects in just a few clicks. Our new scatter tool allows you to quickly and easily create forests, fields, crowds, and more.
- Scattering fog: Set the mood for your scenes with realistic environmental effects such as god rays, light shafts through windows, streetlights, with volumetric fog with realistic light scattering.
- Refreshed UI: Vantage 2.0 gets a facelift. Enjoy a refreshed user interface with a modern look and feel.
- Support for AMD GPUs: Vantage can now run on DXR-compatible AMD graphics cards. (Check System Requirements)
- Orthographic cameras: Easily create top-down or facade renderings with the orthographic camera projection.
- Support for Mesh Lights: Turn any geometry into a direct light source for even more artistic lighting. Mesh lights are now rendered much faster than before.
- Nested .vrscenes: V-Ray scenes can now be referenced via the VRayScene object allowing sharing of the entire scene between different V-Ray integrations.
- NVIDIA AI Denoiser with upscaling: Employ the NVIDIA AI Denoiser when rendering high-quality output to automatically remove noise. Use the upscaling mode to increase the frame rate and responsiveness in interactive rendering.
- NVIDIA RTXDI: Add plenty of dynamic lights to your scene without worrying about performance or resource constraints. Vantage implements NVIDIA RTXDI with its Direct light reservoir sampling feature.
- Support for multiple UV channels: Enrich your projects by creating sophisticated materials such as stacking labels or adding decals with newly added support for multiple UV channels.
- Quality presets: Quickly choose between quality and interaction speed with a single slider, allowing you to set Vantage for high-quality rendering or faster feedback.
What’s New In Chaos Vantage 3
Real-time fluid simulator
Simulate smoke and fire directly in Vantage and get instant feedback for faster interactions. Quickly lookdev explosions, fires, exhaust trails, fog-like effects, and more, and create richer playblasts with animated objects interacting with volumetrics. Or enhance your archviz scenes with chimney smoke, fireplaces, haze, and more, all without leaving Vantage.
Splittable side panels
Reduce scrolling and get faster access to key settings with the new splittable side panels. A toggle lets you split the left or right panel into two columns, giving you more room to work, especially on wide monitors. Adjust column widths to your preference and view commonly paired widgets side by side for a smoother, more efficient workflow.
USD and MaterialX support
With support for open standards like USD and MaterialX, Chaos Vantage’s real-time ray tracing now fits seamlessly into any pipeline, giving artists and studios the freedom to work in any tool and collaborate across departments—even if they don’t use V-Ray.
Support for even larger projects
Handle massive projects with countless unique meshes effortlessly. Vantage keeps complex scenes smooth and fully interactive in real-time, letting you edit and explore without splitting them into smaller chunks or losing performance.
Gaussian Splats
Render environments from real-world captures directly in Vantage. Freely add or modify 3D objects to suit your creative vision while leveraging ray-traced splats for added realism — all in real-time.
Volume rendering
True volumes can now be rendered directly in Chaos Vantage, extending its use in high-end visual effects and archviz scenarios where elements like fog, smoke, or light rays enhance realism and atmosphere.
Camera tracking
Bring real-world motion into your projects. Record the movement of a physical camera and translate it directly into Vantage for natural, cinematic shots without manual keyframing. Direct and refine sequences faster with authentic camera motion.
Offset animation
Duplicate animated V-Ray scenes with motion intact and apply spatial offsets that persist throughout playback. Each instance can be transformed independently, making it simple to build animated fields, crowds, or repeating motion from a single source scene.
Material editor
Vantage now lets you edit material parameters without switching back to your 3D content creation tool, offering greater creative freedom and a more streamlined workflow for previz and lookdev.
AI material generator
AI Material Generator comes in Chaos Cosmos and makes material creation effortless. Upload any photo and instantly turn it into a render-ready PBR material with all necessary maps. Ideal for secondary materials that don’t require extensive art direction, it lets you quickly fill environments and interiors with realistic detail — no third-party tools needed.
Extended texture support
Experiment with more flexibility and control over textures, making material workflows faster and more creative. Apply mapping sources like UVWRandomizer across all sub-maps for simpler setups, fine-tune texture variation with probability controls, and assign different looks to front and back surfaces.
Night Sky (Stars)
Easily create and render astronomically accurate night skies with realistic stars, Moon phases, and the Milky Way. Set the night sky elements based on real-world parameters such as date, time, and geo-location or by adjusting individual elements.
5,000+ new Cosmos assets
Explore over 1,300 new people models, more than 2,000 vegetation assets – including curated Asian varieties, and 1,800+ furniture and accessories, all ready to use for adding believable detail to interior and exterior scenes.
Extended texture support
Achieve the look you want for landscapes and surroundings faster with versatile clustering modes. Generate Mode creates natural clusters using noise calculations, while Color Map Mode and Layer Paint Mode preserve object placement using color maps and layered painting data from 3ds Max for accurate rendering.
New render mode
See exactly what your final render will look like as you set it up. Switch cameras, adjust resolution, and define sequences with precision — all in a streamlined, non-blocking interface that keeps you in the flow.
Selection mask (view mode)
Easily generate black-and-white masks of selected objects for precise post-processing. Copy and paste them directly into compositing apps for faster iteration, seamless adjustments, and quick over-the-shoulder design presentations.
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