Chaos Vantage 2.5.2 x64

- Fixed live link animation started with Vantage UI rendering the same frame over and over
- Fixed live link animation synchronization in 3ds Max
- Fixed deleting an instance of an appended scene resulting in incorrectly saved .vantage file
- Fixed excessive shared GPU memory usage with certain large .OBJ scenes
- Fixed HDR rotation not importing with vrscene generated from Revit
- Fixed default up direction (now Y) for OBJ and 3DS files
- Fixed camera view getting reset to the original camera after placing an asset
- Fixed issue when pressing ESC while dragging a tool
- Fixed UI issues when switching between Still and Sequence in the render dialog
- Improved rendering: Results now better match the VRayUVWRandomizer in V-Ray for Cinema4D
- Improved UI: Added progress indication when reading third party file formats
- Improved UX: Place tool now locks object orientation while Shift is pressed
- Improved UX: Load sample HDR file when opening non-vrscene files

New Features
Scene States
Implemented a Scene States system for creating, modifying and switching lights, materials, and objects variations. Each tab, that can utilize the states system has a Scene sub-state rollout and a new Scene States tab is added in the right side panel.
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Render Elements
Implemented render elements(Lighting, Specular, Global Illumination, Reflection, Refraction, Self-Illumination, Atmosphere, Background, Diffuse Filter, Bumped Normals, Z-Depth, Velocity, Object Mask, Material Mask, Raw RGB) for compositing and masks.
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Option for saving render elements as separate .png and .jpeg images.
Fog
Implemented light scattering( volumetric) fog.
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Textures
Support for multiple UV channels.
Support for Vertex Color.
Support for all options of the Advanced mode of the Color Correction texture from 3ds Max.
Support for repeat/offset U/V for UVWGenMaya when not using shading graphs (e.g. for bump maps).
Animation
Support for .vrscene file with animated: vertices, vrmeshes, materials, textures and UV parameters, light parameters.

Support for animations outside the imported .vrscene range.

Denoiser
Implemented Intel Open Image Denoise denoiser (OIDN) for interactive
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and HQ rendering
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Performance
Implemented NVIDIA upscaling denoiser in interactive mode, requires driver 530 or newer.
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Implemented reservoir resampling algorithm for direct lighting (RTXDI).
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Render resolution scale option in interactive mode.
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Chaos Scatter
Implemented Chaos Scatter for populating objects in the scene.
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Hardware
Support for HDR displays.

Support for AMD GPUs (experimental).

Subdivision
Support for statically subdivided geometry objects from .vrscene.

Lights
Support for mesh lights (improved with reservoir resampling enabled).

Creation of lights(Point, Spot, Directional, Rectangle, Disc, Sphere, IES) from inside Vantage.
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Support for instanced lights via Forest pack and Railclone.

Materials
Support for VRmat materials.

Support for V-Ray override material (MtlOverride).

UI/UX
Helper onscreen text for gizmo manipulators.

Rendering quality presets slider with 4 predefined presets.

Cloning
Implemented object cloning functionality with Ctrl+D.

Camera
Support for camera render resolution from .vrscene file.

Support for orthographic camera.
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Camera grouping functionality.

Tools
Support for Vertex snapping when moving objects.
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Added functionality to quickly place the pivot on the object's bounding box boundaries.

Home Screen
Implemented a Home Screen dialog with quick links, recent file and sample scenes.
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Rendering
Implemented interval and specific frames or frames list for sequence rendering.
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Geometry
Support for embedded vrscene nodes (VRayScene).

- Added support for dynamic textures to reduce GPU memory usage
- Added support for animated textures (image sequences) when using Live Link or loading .vrscene
- Added Cloud system
- Added Color Correction effects: Filmic Tonemapper; Hue/Saturation; Contrast
- Added experimental option to increase FPS by decreasing sampling quality (Render -> Advanced -> Enable ray termination)
- Added shortcut for HQ render dialog opening
- Added composition grid overlays
- Added new UI sliders in the Post tab
- Added option to pause rendering after reaching a certain sample level
- Added functionality to copy the viewport to the clipboard
- Improved the EXR files to store exposure
- Improved the UI responsiveness while the HQ render dialog is open
- Improved UX - Separated Bump and Normal mapping render options
- Improved UX - 'Render Animation with Chaos Vantage UI' shows the correct FPS from Max
- Improved UX - disabled file actions (e.g. open, reload) while live link is active
- Fixed 'Original camera' thumbnail not being properly displayed after loading file
- Fixed GPU memory for a VRayProxy not being freed after the proxy is deleted
- Fixed misleading error message when a scene file is corrupted
- Fixed wrong reporting of geometry statistics in various cases (live link, deleting objects, V-Ray Proxy)

- Added partial support for V-Ray Edges texture (rounded corners are not supported)
- Added the geolocated sun animation to the saved .vantage file
- Added support for the Vantage shortcuts through the SpaceMouse/3DConnexion controller
- Fixed wrong overriding of the current environment texture when using "Open Scene as Config Only..."
- Improved UX: render dialog retains settings when closed
- Improved light gizmos to have consistent line width and size at different render resolution and viewport size
- Upper limit for the number of light tree samples set to 16

New feature
Texture
Support for the "auto" color space transfer function of VRayBitmap


Modified
.vantage
When the root .vrscene is not found with its absolute path it's searched for in the folder containing the .vantage file





Fixes
Multi GPU
Line artifacts in interactive mode when using multiple GPUs
UI
Duplicate objects showing up in object list (with scenes from Maya)
Memory
Crash when out of GPU memory and the scene has a rectangle light with a texture
Tools
Issues in "Import changes from Vantage" MAX script:

Importing cameras from a .vantage file does not set the frame rate
Unexpected values for the "Exposure value" keys
Live Link
Live link failing to start when "Save strings in legacy non-scene files using UTF8" is enabled in 3ds Max

.vantage
Error when using "Save scene settings as default"
UX
Undo action not working properly after a select-all(CTRL+A) action in the objects list

- Fixed live link animation started with Vantage UI rendering the same frame over and over
- Fixed live link animation synchronization in 3ds Max
- Fixed deleting an instance of an appended scene resulting in incorrectly saved .vantage file
- Fixed excessive shared GPU memory usage with certain large .OBJ scenes
- Fixed HDR rotation not importing with vrscene generated from Revit
- Fixed default up direction (now Y) for OBJ and 3DS files
- Fixed camera view getting reset to the original camera after placing an asset
- Fixed issue when pressing ESC while dragging a tool
- Fixed UI issues when switching between Still and Sequence in the render dialog
- Improved rendering: Results now better match the VRayUVWRandomizer in V-Ray for Cinema4D
- Improved UI: Added progress indication when reading third party file formats
- Improved UX: Place tool now locks object orientation while Shift is pressed
- Improved UX: Load sample HDR file when opening non-vrscene files