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.

Easily switch between different density styles for a given area with the new distribution patterns in Chaos Scatter. Achieve a realistic look for your scene or experiment with instance distribution at an unprecedented speed.

Simulates lens distortion, making renders feel more natural and immersive. Preserve realism and integrate CG elements seamlessly into live-action footage by replicating barrel or pincushion distortion.

Enhance visual focus and realism with the vignette camera effect. It naturally improves composition, and adds depth or mood to your renders.

Also known as cat’s eye bokeh, optical vignetting mimics real-world camera behavior for added authenticity and artistic expressiveness.

Enhance batch image processing with the new Sharpen/Blur effects for even more artistic control without the need for a third-party processing tool.

Create more realistic still images and immersive animations with the improved PRG sky model, which now supports nautical twilight. Additionally, it allows you to render the sky at various observer altitudes, reaching up to several kilometers.

Weathered streaks and dirt in crevices are easy to create with the new Dirt Texture. It also employs both ambient and inner occlusion for maximum artistic flexibility.

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.

Vantage now supports opacity for both cutout and semi-transparent materials, allowing them to be rendered.

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.

Control your position in virtual reality with dedicated controllers.

Select and manipulate your cameras, now directly in the viewport. Represented as scene objects, you can accurately position them using type-in coordinates.

Camera animations now have smoother trajectories for better-looking flythroughs.

See your world from a whole new perspective. Vantage now supports head tracking and rendering to HMD headsets, enabling exciting interactive experiences.

Vantage’s new “Wind” parameter makes supported Cosmos vegetation assets sway realistically, adding realism to your scenes.

Every designer knows that there’s no such thing as a perfectly square edge. Now Vantage will smooth sharp edges, eliminating those harsh lines that don’t look quite right.

Vantage now offers adjustable per-object transparency, enabling smooth transitions between fully opaque and fully transparent states. Perfect for making objects appear/disappear.

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.

Elevate the art of material blending in your Vantage projects with the newly added support for VRayBlendMtl. This feature allows you to layer and mix complex materials in a physically based way to achieve a photorealistic look.

With the new Multi Matte render element you have even more control over your rendered images in compositing. It enables selective object isolation, efficient post-production workflows, and fine-tuned masking for achieving pixel-perfect precision in every render.

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.

NVIDIA’s AI-powered DLSS 3.5 denoiser enhances rendering speeds by up to three times while preserving visual fidelity. It employs Ray Reconstruction to sharpen images and reduce noise, while panning around a scene. Enjoy a much better real-time experience allowing you to review and fine-tune scenes with exceptional quality, all while maintaining the accuracy of colors and lighting.

Create realistic frosted glass effects using the newly added refraction glossiness parameter in V-Ray Material.

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.

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.

Enjoy a much better and more structured method of grouping cameras and assigning states to these groups. Perfect for over-the-shoulder discussion with clients.

Make your projects extra radiant with HDR monitor support.

Bring people and vegetation to life and create richer animations for your project presentations.

Add the most popular render elements, as well as object and material masks, to fine-tune your images in post.

We’ve partnered with AXYZ to provide support for its high-quality 3D library of animated 4D people and crowds.

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.

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.

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.

Easily create top-down or facade renderings with the orthographic camera projection.

Turn any geometry into a direct light source for even more artistic lighting. Mesh lights are now rendered much faster than before.

V-Ray scenes can now be referenced via the VRayScene object allowing sharing of the entire scene between different V-Ray integrations.

Employ the NVIDIA AI Denoiser when rendering high-quality output to automatically remove noise. Use the upscaling mode to increase the frame rate and responsiveness in interactive rendering.

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.

Enrich your projects by creating sophisticated materials such as stacking labels or adding decals with newly added support for multiple UV channels.

Quickly choose between quality and interaction speed with a single slider, allowing you to set Vantage for high-quality rendering or faster feedback.

Vantage 2.0 gets a facelift. Enjoy a refreshed user interface with a modern look and feel.

Vantage can now run on DXR-compatible* AMD graphics cards.

Achieve precise color fidelity from asset creation to final output with Vantage support for OCIO. Ensure accurate color management by configuring color profiles, maintaining consistency across different software, troubleshooting pipeline issues, and optimizing workflows for color grading and rendering.

Boost image quality with Vantage support for DLSS 4. Benefit from optimized settings for real-time rendering, and improved temporal stability to minimize artifacts like ghosting and flickering.