Gemma Falconer da Silva

Last updated: August 12, 2025  •  1 min read

Vantage 2, update 8, is now available

Summary:

  • Shader Execution Reordering (SER) boosts rendering speed by up to 80% on NVIDIA’s Ada and Blackwell GPUs, enhancing both real-time and offline rendering.
  • Light linking allows precise control over lighting effects on specific objects, enabling creative and focused lighting setups.
  • Lens effects introduce cinematic bloom and glare, enhancing realism with adjustable colorations, size, and intensity.
  • Parallax shader creates the illusion of detailed interiors on flat surfaces, adding depth to facades and displays without complex modeling.
  • Temporal consistency maintains stability of scattered elements across frames, ensuring natural movement alignment.
  • Switch material feature allows quick swapping of material variants, facilitating efficient look development and comparisons.

Faster rendering, precise lighting control, bloom and glare camera effects, and more!

Speed up offline and real-time rendering and enjoy more artistic control with the latest version of Chaos Vantage.

New in Vantage 2.8

Shader Execution Reordering (SER): Enjoy faster real-time and offline rendering with performance gains of up to 80% with support for SER in NVIDIA’s Ada and Blackwell GPUs.

Light linking: Control how each light affects specific objects in your scene. Include or exclude lights per object per light to fine-tune highlights, shadows, and overall composition—perfect for focused lighting setups and creative control.

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Light linking

Lens effects: Add cinematic glow and realism to bright areas with the new bloom and glare camera effects. You can change the colorations, size, intensity, saturation, aperture sides, shape, and more.

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Lens effects

Parallax shader: Simulate render-ready rooms without modeling them. The shader can be applied on a flat geometry, creating the illusion of a fully furnished interior. A quick way to introduce details to facades and shop displays for example.

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Parallax shader

Temporal consistency: Keep scattered elements stable across frames. When enabled, instances are distributed based on the selected rest-pose frame and remain attached, following the surface’s natural movement across all frames.

Switch material: Swap material variants quickly and easily. Ideal for look development and quick comparisons without rebuilding shaders.

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Switch material

Learn more about the new and improved features in Vantage 2.8.

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