Experience Vantage's immersive real-time rendering directly in your SketchUp or Rhino viewport. Get instant, ray-traced previews of lighting, materials, and shadows as you design, or during live walkthroughs. Populate scenes effortlessly and capture high-resolution snapshots on the fly.
Render 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.
Experience 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.
Get 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.
The Chaos Vantage Hydra Delegate for Houdini opens up production-quality real-time rendering for lookdev and previz workflows to any Houdini artist. No new tools to learn and set up, just high-quality rendering available right in the Houdini viewport - same workflow.
Easily queue camera views and animation sequence jobs in the render queue.
Employ 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.
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.
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.
Transition from passive viewing to full interactivity with VR controller support. Teleport through spaces and manipulate objects for immersive design validation, offering you and your clients freedom to explore every angle.
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.
Instantly sync changes done to the scene in your DCC without exporting vrscenes.
The material tab lets you easily preview, assign, replace, and search materials for an interactive workflow.
Navigate and direct your cameras using the popular 3DConnexion SpaceMouse controller.
Make your projects extra radiant with HDR monitor support.
Quickly choose between quality and interaction speed with a single slider, allowing you to set Vantage for high-quality rendering or faster feedback.
Bring natural environments to life with photorealistic, ray-traced water that animates instantly. Forget complex simulations; this feature delivers procedural, parameter-driven motion for oceans to pools, right in your scene.
Vantage “Wind” parameter makes supported Cosmos vegetation assets sway realistically, adding realism to your scenes.
Animate people and vegatation and create richer animations for your project presentations.
Easily create animations by dropping cameras, adjusting length, adding transitions and exporting video or image sequences.
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.
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.
Keep 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.
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.
Simulate fire & smoke and get instant feedback. Quickly lookdev effects and create richer playblasts, or enhance archviz scenes with chimney smoke, fireplaces, haze, and more, all without leaving Vantage. Supports VDB cache exports.
Vantage GI is developed to provide maximum lighting accuracy at interactive rendering speed.
Add detail to your renderings with contact shadows using raytraced ambient occlusion.
Perform 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.
Render 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.
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.
From 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.
Control 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.
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.
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.
See your world from a whole new perspective. Vantage supports head tracking and rendering to HMD headsets, enabling exciting interactive experiences.
Assign 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.
Use 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.
The camera exposure adjusts automatically as you navigate in your scene.
Simulate 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.
Composition guides overlays make it easier to find the perfect frame.
Easily create top-down or facade renderings with the orthographic camera projection.
Illustrate early-stage design concepts with flexible Toon Outlines. Emphasize silhouettes and edges while maintaining photorealistic lighting, generating stylized frames and animations without post-processing for quick client reviews and presentations.
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.
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.
Achieve more natural looks for scattered instances by taking the color pattern of the underlying distribute-on object. Experience better artistic control when creating grass areas, carpets, or other custom surfaces.
Vantage now supports opacity for both cutout and semi-transparent materials, allowing them to be rendered.
Vantage smoothes sharp edges, eliminating those harsh lines that don’t look quite right.
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.
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.
Create realistic frosted glass effects using the refraction glossiness parameter in V-Ray Material.
Support 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.
The powerful Clay option significantly streamlines the material overrides process when setting up lighting or presenting early designs.
Add reflective coating to your material to achieve effects like varnished wood or metallic paint.
Enrich your projects by creating sophisticated materials such as stacking labels or adding decals with newly added support for multiple UV channels.
Vantage automatically resizes the scene textures and uses the most optimal size. This greatly improves memory efficiency and allows you to load even larger scenes.
Weathered streaks and dirt in crevices are easy with the new Dirt Texture. It also employs both ambient and inner occlusion for maximum artistic flexibility.
Add depth detail like bumps and dents to improve the realism of your surface material.
Turn the TV on or light up the fireplace by using image file lists to animate textures.
Remove repeating patterns and add more realism to your textures using randomization controls.
Simulate 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.
Easily toggle between multiple material variants in one setup. Ideal for look development and quick comparisons without rebuilding shaders.
Create complex cutaways and sections with any mesh object, offering a flexible control over scene rendering.
Create realistic water surfaces with ease, from calm pools to stormy seas.
A collection of high-quality, render-ready 3D assets, HDR images and materials that quickly add believable entourage to your interior or exterior scene.
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.
We've partnered with Chaos Anima to provide support for its high-quality library of 3D people, animated 4D humans, crowds and traffic.
Turn any geometry into a direct light source for even more artistic lighting. Mesh lights are now rendered much faster than before.
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.
Create intricate geometric details from textures, ideal for designing bas-reliefs, pavements, brick/stone walls, and similar structures that are challenging to model manually.
Add the most popular render elements, as well as object and material masks to fine tune your images in post.
Simulate different real-world films’ color gamma to color correct images.
Remap the image colors using present color corrections from a LUT file.
