Scroll down for news of the Vantage 1.8 update.Ĭhaos Group has released Chaos Vantage, its new tool for exploring large V-Ray scenes in real time. The software, previously known as Project Lavina, makes use of the RT cores in current-generation Nvidia RTX graphics cards to generate an interactive real-time, fully ray traced view of the environment. It is available free until June 2021 September 2022.Ī new tool for scouting very large architectural scenes in real timeįirst shown as a tech preview at Siggraph 2018, and released in public beta this summer, Chaos Vantage is pitched as a tool for exploring large 3D scenes in a fully ray traced environment.Īlthough there are potential uses for visual effects and animation – for example, scouting virtual sets – the main target market is architectural visualisation.
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Read on as Manuel Albert tells us about his experiences with the script. Potential use cases include simply viewing very large architectural scenes like massing models, scouting camera positions for offline renders in V-Ray, and generating real-time previs-quality animations. Filmic Blender is an OpenColorIO configuration for Blender that will help you improve your renders - but there's a catch. vrscene format and live-links to 3ds MaxĬhaos Group’s pitch for using Vantage over other real-time rendering solutions – particularly Unreal Engine, which is free for this kind of work – is ease of use. Rather than having to convert scenes created for offline renders into a form suitable for use in a game engine – still a time-consuming process, despite tools like Datasmith – Vantage can render the original versions.
