Introducing Vantage 2

High-quality scene exploration in real-time


Explore your most complex V-Ray 3D production scenes ray traced in real-time. With Chaos® Vantage, there are no time-consuming conversions. Simply drag and drop your complete V-Ray scene into Vantage and start exploring. Quickly create high-quality visualizations or pre-visualizations for architecture, film-making, automotive and more.

Chaos Vantage requires a DXR-compatible GPU.

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Explore & showcase limitless design possibilities

Scene states


Assign light setups, materials, object transformations, and post-process looks to different cameras. Easily recall and send them for batch rendering.

Vantage 2 Scene States
Vantage 2 Scene States

Light creation and placement


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.

Vantage 2 Light Creation and Placement
Vantage 2 Light Creation and Placement

Camera grouping with states override


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.

Vantage 2 Camera Grouping with States Override
Vantage 2 Camera Grouping with States Override

HDR Monitor support


Make your projects extra radiant with HDR monitor support.

Vantage 2 HDR Monitor Support
Vantage 2 HDR Monitor Support

Produce high-quality renderings in record time

Deforming meshes


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

Vantage 2 Deforming Meshes
Vantage 2 Deforming Meshes

Render Elements


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

Vantage 2 Render Elements
Vantage 2 Render Elements

Support for Anima4D assets


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

Vantage 2 Support for Anima4D Assets
Vantage 2 Support for Anima4D Assets

Extended animations


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.

Vantage 2 Extended Animations
Vantage 2 Extended Animations

Scatter


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.

Vantage 2 Scatter
Vantage 2 Scatter

Visualize every element of your scene as you design

Scattering fog


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.

Vantage 2 Scattering Fog
Vantage 2 Scattering Fog

Orthographic cameras


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

Vantage 2 Orthographic Cameras
Vantage 2 Orthographic Cameras

Support for Mesh Lights


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

Vantage 2 Support for Mesh Lights
Vantage 2 Support for Mesh Lights

Nested .vrscenes


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

Vantage 2 Nested .vrscenes
Vantage 2 Nested .vrscenes

NVIDIA AI Denoiser with upscaling


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.

Vantage 2 NVIDIA AI Denoiser with Upscaling
Vantage 2 NVIDIA AI Denoiser with Upscaling

NVIDIA RTXDI


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.

Vantage 2 NVIDIA RTXDI
Vantage 2 NVIDIA RTXDI

Support for multiple UV channels


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

Vantage 2 Support for Multiple UV Channels
Vantage 2 Support for Multiple UV Channels

And more...

Quality presets


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 Quality Presets
Vantage 2 Quality Presets

Refreshed UI


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

Vantage 2 Refreshed UI
Vantage 2 Refreshed UI

Support for AMD GPUs


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

Vantage 2 Support for AMD GPUs
Vantage 2 Support for AMD GPUs

System requirements


Windows 10 with Update 2004 or newer (version 10.0.19041)

DXR compatible NVIDIA or AMD GPU (maximum of two)

For NVIDIA GPUs -RTX series or newer, required driver 515 or newer, recommended driver 530 or newer

For AMD GPUs - RX 6000 series or newer

System RAM should equal or exceed GPU memory (minimum 8GB RAM)