Chaos Vantage Floating Annual Licence
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Chaos - 'Vantage'
Annual Floating Licence
Explore without limitsChaos Vantage is a powerful, real-time, GPU-accelerated renderer designed for seamless exploration and visualisation of complex 3D production scenes. With Chaos Vantage, artists can instantly experience a highly realistic, fully ray-traced environment without the need for time-consuming conversions or scene simplification. Simply drag and drop your complete V-Ray or Corona scenes to explore, compare, and present design options, material variations, and lighting setups in real-time, unlocking unrivalled photorealistic quality for architecture, film-making, automotive projects, and more. Its intuitive workflow and record-breaking speed enable users to produce high-quality renderings and animations with ease, making concept review and post-production more efficient than ever.
High-Quality Scene Exploration In Real-Time

Explore your most complex 3D production scenes ray traced in real-timeWith Chaos® Vantage, there are no time-consuming conversions. Simply drag and drop your complete V-Ray and Corona scenes into Vantage and start exploring. Quickly create high-quality visualizations or pre-visualizations for architecture, film-making, automotive, and more.
Chaos Vantage For Architectural visualization
Use Chaos Vantage with:
Explore & present unlimited design variationsSwitch between design options, material schemes, and lighting configurations to compare, explain, and explore all the possibilities you have for your design or its presentation.
See every aspect of your scene as you modelA real-time companion view, unaffected by scene size, that gives you a highly realistic perspective of your scene as you adjust materials, lighting, and geometry.
Render super fastProduce high-quality renderings and animations in record time at a quality level that makes approval easy — including all the render elements needed for post-production.
Chaos Vantage For VFX
Use Chaos Vantage with:
Playblasts at exceptional qualityPlayblasts 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 productionRay tracing in real-time without scene simplification or baking, using the same materials and lighting as your production team.
Real-time referenceA real-time ray-traced view that closely matches your production rendering results as you finalize your scene. Also perfect for over-the-shoulder discussions while making decisions.
What’s New
Vantage 2, update 8 is now available.

Experience faster rendering and step deeper into your artistic visionUnlock performance gains of up to 80% with Shader Execution Reordering. Paint your scenes with light using precise light linking, and let bloom and glare breathe emotion into your lens. Transform simple planes into rich interiors with the parallax shader. Keep scattered details stable in motion with temporal consistency, and explore material variations instantly with the new switch material.
Rendering
Ray-tracingRender your scenes in 100% ray traced real-time through the power of DXR-compatible GPUs. Enjoy physically accurate cameras, lights, and materials while retaining game-like interactivity.
Real-time renderingExperience faster real-time rendering and seamless visual quality thanks to the support for DLSS 4 and the Shader Execution Reordering (SER) optimizations in NVIDIA’s Ada and Blackwell GPUs.
Live Link animation renderingGet a live raytraced view of your scene, and render animations with a live link from 3ds Max, Maya, SketchUp, Rhino, Revit, and Cinema 4D. Changes you make in your scene will instantly appear in Chaos Vantage.
DenoisingEmploy the Vantage native denoiser for real-time noise reduction, leverage the NVIDIA AI DLSS 4 denoiser for high-quality output, or enhance denoising capabilities with the option of Intel Open Image Denoise.
Batch renderingEasily queue camera views and animation sequence jobs in the render queue.
UI
Live linkInstantly sync changes done to the scene in your DCC without exporting vrscenes.
Material workflowThe material tab lets you easily preview, assign, replace, and search materials for an interactive workflow.
3D navigationNavigate and direct your cameras using the popular 3DConnexion SpaceMouse controller.
HDR Monitor supportMake your projects extra radiant with HDR monitor support.
Quality presetsQuickly choose between quality and interaction speed with a single slider, allowing you to set Vantage for high-quality rendering or faster feedback.
Animations & Special Effects
Animated vegetationVantage “Wind” parameter makes supported Cosmos vegetation assets sway realistically, adding realism to your scenes.
Deformed meshesAnimate people and vegatation and create richer animations for your project presentations.
Animation EditorEasily create animations by dropping cameras, adjusting length, adding transitions and exporting video or image sequences.
Extended animationsTake 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.
Scattering fogSet 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.
Temporal consistencyKeep scattered elements stable over time by locking them to a rest-pose frame. They stay attached as the surface moves, avoiding flickering or shifting artifacts.
Lighting
Global IlluminationVantage GI is developed to provide maximum lighting accuracy at interactive rendering speed.
Ambient occlusionAdd detail to your renderings with contact shadows using raytraced ambient occlusion.
Geolocated time of dayPerform accurate light studies by quickly and easily setting up the sun for a given date, time and location. Create daylight time-lapse animations with minimum effort.
Sun & SkyRender realistic daylight or nautical twilight and create any type of cloudy sky with the user-friendly yet powerful procedural cloud system. Additionally, render the sky at various observer altitudes.
Accurate lightsFrom physically accurate Area lights, to IES lights with real world measured light distribution, to simplified point and spot lights, Vantage renders your lights with raytraced accuracy.
Light linkingControl how each light affects specific objects in your scene. Include or exclude lights per object to fine-tune highlights, shadows, and overall composition—perfect for focused lighting setups and creative control.
Light creation and placementYou 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.
NVIDIA RTXDIAdd 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.
Camera
Virtual realitySee your world from a whole new perspective. Vantage supports head tracking and rendering to HMD headsets, enabling exciting interactive experiences.
Scene statesAssign different light setups, materials, object transformation, and post-process looks to different cameras. Add animations for smooth transitions between different states. Easily recall and send them for batch rendering.
Real-world camerasUse real-world camera parameters and work like a virtual photographer—add depth of field and motion blur to your renders. Control the visual focus with vignetting effects and integrate CG elements seamlessly into live-action footage by customizing the lens distortion parameters.
Auto ExposureThe camera exposure adjusts automatically as you navigate in your scene.
Lens effectsSimulate real-world camera behavior with bloom and glare effects. Add cinematic glow and realism to bright areas, enhancing depth, mood, and visual impact in your renders.
OverlaysComposition guides overlays make it easier to find the perfect frame.
Orthographic camerasEasily create top-down or facade renderings with the orthographic camera projection.
Materials & Textures
Subsurface scattering(SSS)Render true translucent materials with the support for V-Ray Materials’ volumetric subsurface scattering. It is easier than ever to create realistic skin, plastic, wax, and more.
Scatter Surface ColourAchieve more natural looks for scattered instances by taking the colour pattern of the underlying distribute-on object. Experience better artistic control when creating grass areas, carpets, or other custom surfaces.
Full opacity supportVantage now supports opacity for both cutout and semi-transparent materials, allowing them to be rendered.
Rounded edgesVantage smoothes sharp edges, eliminating those harsh lines that don’t look quite right.
Decal with cylindrical projectionEasily 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 supportWith 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.
Refraction glossinessCreate realistic frosted glass effects using the refraction glossiness parameter in V-Ray Material.
Shading supportSupport for Clear coat in V-Ray Material, V-Ray 2 Sided Material, Glossy Fresnel reflections, Substance textures, VRayBlendMtl, V-Ray MultiSubTex, MultiTexture, ForestColor, Normal maps, and more.
One-click clay overrideThe powerful Clay option significantly streamlines the material overrides process when setting up lighting or presenting early designs.
Material CoatAdd reflective coating to your material to achieve effects like varnished wood or metallic paint.
Multiple UV channelsEnrich your projects by creating sophisticated materials such as stacking labels or adding decals with newly added support for multiple UV channels.
Dynamic texturesVantage automatically resizes the scene textures and uses the most optimal size. This greatly improves memory efficiency and allows you to load even larger scenes.
Dirt TextureWeathered streaks and dirt in crevices are easy with the new Dirt Texture. It also employs both ambient and inner occlusion for maximum artistic flexibility.
Normal mapsAdd depth detail like bumps and dents to improve the realism of your surface material.
Image sequences as texturesTurn the TV on or light up the fireplace by using image file lists to animate textures.
RandomizerRemove repeating patterns and add more realism to your textures using randomization controls.
Parallax shaderSimulate render- ready rooms without modeling them. The shader can be applied on a flat geometry, creating the illusion of a fully furnished interior, saving time and resources.
Switch materialEasily toggle between multiple material variants in one setup. Ideal for look development and quick comparisons without rebuilding shaders.
Geometry
Clipper objectCreate complex cutaways and sections with any mesh object, offering a flexible control over scene rendering.
Water objectCreate realistic water surfaces with ease, from calm pools to stormy seas.
Chaos Cosmos integrationA collection of high-quality, render-ready 3D assets, HDR images and materials that quickly add believable entourage to your interior or exterior scene.
Chaos ScatterPopulate 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.
Support for Anima4D assetsPartnered with Chaos Anima to provide support for its high-quality library of 3D people, animated 4D humans, crowds and traffic.
Mesh lightsTurn any geometry into a direct light source for even more artistic lighting. Mesh lights are now rendered much faster than before.
Hair & FurCreate 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.
DisplacementCreate intricate geometric details from textures, ideal for designing bas-reliefs, pavements, brick/stone walls, and similar structures that are challenging to model manually.
Post Production
Render ElementsAdd the most popular render elements, as well as object and material masks to fine tune your images in post.
Filmic TonemappingSimulate different real-world films’ colour gamma to colour correct images.
Colour correctionRemap the image colours using present colour corrections from a LUT file.
Technical Requirements
Supported platforms• Chaos Vantage works with .vrscene files exported from V-Ray Next to V-Ray 7, and Corona 12.
• We recommend using V-Ray 5 and above or Corona 12 and above for an ultimate experience.
• Chaos Vantage works with a live link from 3ds Max, Maya, SketchUp, Rhino, Revit, and Cinema 4D.
• Chaos Vantage is fit to provide OCIO support and DLSS 4 support to secure precise colour fidelity and even higher visual quality.
System requirements• Windows 10 with Update 2004 or newer (version 10.0.19041)
• DXR compatible NVIDIA or AMD GPU (maximum of two)
• For NVIDIA GPUs -RTX series or newer, required driver 515 or newer, recommended driver 530 or newer
• For AMD GPUs - RX 6000 series or newer
• System RAM should equal or exceed GPU memory (minimum 8GB RAM)
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