What is Chaos Vantage?

Chaos Vantage allows users to explore even their most complex V-Ray scenes fully ray-traced and in real-time. What does that mean? Below you can see a side-by-side comparison of a standard interactive V-Ray render in the viewport versus a Vantage render in the viewport. Real-time truly is real-time!

Who is Chaos Vantage intended for?

Vantage is ideally suited for visualization specialists (those who create the renders) and Design Directors (those who do not create renders or models themselves but want the real-time experience). When you see how fast it is, every V-Ray user will want it!

What can Chaos Vantage be used for?

• Studying designs for personal insight or informal, internal evaluation
• Design validation and presenting designs to a supervisor or client
• Photorealistic (pre-)visualization
• Fast rendering of final images and animations, allowing users to present their designs in high quality
• VR experience of a design

Does it work with any V-Ray scene?

Yes, it works with any V-Ray scene, but it has been specifically tested in combination with .vrscene files originating from the following programs, and it also supports a Live Link from these programs:

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

Which V-Ray features does Chaos Vantage support?

The supported features vary by Host app. All supported features can be found in the official Chaos help files.

• Animation capabilities in Vantage
• Trees and plants moving in the wind
• Moving camera (keyframe animation)
• Moving camera (recording on-screen movement)
• Objects moving, rotating, or scaling
• Time-lapse of the sun
• Moving clouds
• Wavy water

Animation capabilities transferred from a Live-linked app (such as 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, or Maya) or from the .vrscene export from those programs.

Note: The animation capabilities controlled by Vantage itself do not take effect when using the Live Link, as the host app is driving the scene in that case. To make Vantage the "boss," it is better to use the export/import workflow.

What does Chaos Vantage offer that other real-time solutions don't?

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

VR

You can look around & navigate using your computer keyboard. Navigation using controllers is still under development. Compatible with Meta Quest via Link Cable & Windows Mixed Reality.

How much does Chaos Vantage cost?

Chaos Vantage is part of the V-Ray Premium and Enterprise tiers (formerly V-Ray Collection). You can view the pricing on the Chaos Vantage product page.

Which licenses do I need?

Chaos Vantage is included with the Chaos Premium or Enterprise licenses.

What are the system requirements to run Chaos Vantage?

Notes

1 - The GPU must be set to WDDM mode and not TCC mode, otherwise Chaos Vantage will not detect the GPU. (This note is mainly relevant for GPUs in data centers, not for individual PCs—which are set to WDDM mode by default.)