Chaos Scans — Key features

Properties

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Incredibly photoreal

Chaos Scans uses high-quality hardware to capture the material’s texture in exceptional quality. No loss of detail, fidelity, or color.

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Physically accurate

Chaos Scans are created from thousands of images, capturing a material's bidirectional texture function (BTF), recreating a material's true surface appearance and response to light.

Volumetric translucency

Chaos Scans materials capture translucency in volumetric materials with varying thickness.

Seamlessly tileable

Chaos Scans materials repeat without joins.

Customizable

Fine-tune the appearance of materials directly in your favorite content creation tool.

Triplannar mapping

Chaos scans materials can be applied by proprietary triplannar mapping, which removes the need for explicit UV mapping.

Render Elements

Chaos Scans support separation into several render elements: clear coat reflections, direct light, indirect lighting by spawned rays, opacity and received caustics stored.

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GPU support

Chaos Scans are compatible with V-Ray GPU for increased performance and flexibility.

Material types

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Car paints & paints

Simulate the look of highly-detailed car paint, complete with orange peel and clear coat.

Translucent materials

The industry's first technology capable of scanning & rendering translucent materials.

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