Chaos Vantage

Modified on Mon, 16 Sep at 1:51 PM

What is Chaos Vantage?

Chaos Vantage allows users to explore even their most complex V-Ray scenes fully ray-traced and in real-time.

Who is Chaos Vantage for?

Vantage is ideally suited for visualization specialists (those who make the models) and Design Directors (those who don't model themselves but want the real-time experience).

The main users will be V-Ray and possibly non-V-Ray users who just want to experience the existing designs.

For example, the ratio between 3ds Max and Revit in AEC companies is at best one in ten - meaning one 3ds Max user can provide models for ten others to experience.

What can Chaos Vantage be used for?

Studying designs for personal judgment or informal, internal evaluation

Design validation and presentation of designs to a manager or a client

Photorealistic (pre-)visualization

Fast rendering of final images and animations, where users want to present their design in high quality

VR-Experience of designs

For which specific sectors is Vantage currently suitable?

Architecture, interior architecture

With upcoming updates:

- Product design

- Automotive

What does Chaos Vantage cost?

View the prices on the Chaos Vantage product page.

Which licenses do I need?

Chaos Vantage is a standalone product and does not require any other Chaos product licenses to run. It is offered as an annual or monthly subscription.

What are the system requirements to run Chaos Vantage?

RAM	System RAM should equal or exceed GPU memory (minimum 8GB RAM). It is recommended to have RAM twice the size of GPU memory
Operating system	Microsoft® Windows® 10 with Update 2004 (version 10.0.19041) or newer
Licensing	Vantage license with License Server 4.5.1 or newer
GPU Acceleration	DXR compatible NVIDIA® or AMD or Intel discrete GPU Chaos Vantage can use up to 2 GPU devices. For NVIDIA GPUs: RTX series or newer, required driver 515 or newer¹ in WDDM mode, recommended driver 537.13 or newer For AMD GPUs: RX 6000 series or newer For Intel GPUs: Intel Arc Alchemist or newer

¹ GPU must be set to WDDM mode and not in TCC, otherwise Chaos Vantage will not detect it. This requirement is especially necessary for GPU's used in data centers, not so much for individual PC's which are in WDDM mode by default.

Does it work with any V-Ray scene?

Yes, it does work with any V-Ray Scene, but it has mainly been tested in combination with .vrscene files that come from the following list of applications. Also it supports a Live Link from these applications:

3ds Max
Cinema 4D
Maya
Revit
Rhino and Grasshopper
SketchUp

What V-Ray features does Chaos Vantage support?

The supported features differ per host app. All supported features are listed in the official Chaos help files.

What else does Chaos Vantage offer compared to other real-time solutions?

Chaos Vantage is unique in offering real-time, 100% ray tracing. It is especially suitable for large scenes with lots of light and photo-realistic (V-Ray) materials - which describes the projects of most Design and VFX professionals. This allows scenes to be loaded directly from where they were created - without any preparatory work such as geometry decimation, shader simplification, or baking tasks required in real-time raster applications.