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Chaos Vantage 2, update 5 with VR and animated vegetation
These are huge news for those using Chaos Vantage: Chaos has just released the 5th update to their real-time ray-tracer Chaos Vantage, bringing the much anticipated support for VR and new animated vegetation with procedural wind straight from Chaos Cosmos, among other things.
The full list of new features:
Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality
- Initial(WIP) support for interactive rendering in VR headsets.
Ensure an appropriate OpenXR runtime is set in the VR's respective app:- Windows Mixed Reality: "Mixed Reality Portal" > "Settings" > "Set up OpenXR".
- Oculus: "Oculus" app > "Settings" > "General" > "Set Oculus as Active".
- SteamVR: "SteamVR" app > "Settings" > "Developer" > "Set SteamVR as OpenXR Runtime
Animation
- Support for Chaos Cosmos animated vegetation assets.
Materials
- Support for VRayEdgesTex in bump and rounded corners.
Geometry
- Support for animated partial object visibility.
Rendering
- Support for ACEScg rendering color space.
- Tool for quickly saving a previz video with DLSS.
UI/UX
- Search filtering and sorting for scene objects, lights, and cameras.
- Progress bar for importing assets.
- Added meter scale information in the log and Scene stats.
- Added "Flip horizontally" option to the Background image.
- Added ability to drag and drop files onto FilePath property labels(LUTs, Environment texture, Background texture, Point, Spot, Directional Projection textures).
Color Corrections
- Loading chromatic aberration from VFB settings in .vrscene.
As usual, this is an update you should not miss. The full list of changes and updates can be found .
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Chaos has just released the 5th update to their real-time ray-tracer Chaos Vantage, bringing the much anticipated support for VR and new animated vegetation with procedural wind straight from Chaos Cosmos, among other things.
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