There is an important Chaos Licensing server application update scheduled for January 28, 2025, because the server certificate will expire on that date.
We are committed to making this transition as smooth as possible and are here to assist you every step of the way. If you have any further questions or need assistance, please do not hesitate to contact our Customer Support team.
What Should I Do?
You must update your Chaos License Server application by January 28, 2025, to ensure uninterrupted access to your licenses. Failure to update the Chaos License Server application will result in losing access to your licenses.
The easiest way to proceed is to update the Chaos products you are using to their latest versions. Download the latest version of your product from our download section here
If this solution works for you, there is no need to go through the steps below.
What If I Don’t Want to Update My Products Now?
If you cannot or prefer not to update to the latest versions, go to Step 1 and follow the detailed guide below to update the Chaos License Server application independently. This guide walks you through everything you need to do to ensure your licensing system is updated and functional before January 28, 2025.
Step 1: Important Notes Before Updating
If you or your organization’s users sign in to their Chaos accounts to access licenses, this update must be performed on each device. This applies to both individual license holders and organizations using cloud-based floating licensing.
Note: If you are using the Chaos License Server as a service, please refer to the “Exceptions” section at the bottom of the article for more details.
Troubleshooting: Removing Older Versions
If you encounter issues during installation, ensure older versions of the Chaos License Server are fully removed.
For Windows Users:
Uninstall the Chaos License Server:
Navigate to: Start Menu > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs, locate the Chaos License Server, and uninstall it.
Delete the following folders:
C:\Program Files\Chaos
C:\Program Files\Chaos Group\VRLService
C:\Program Files\Common Files\ChaosGroup\ssl
%appdata%\Chaos\VRLService\ssl
For macOS Users:
Remove the Chaos License Server app.
Delete the following folder: /Users/YOUR_USERNAME/.ChaosGroup/ssl
To access this folder:
Open Finder.
Select Go > Go to Folder, and enter ~/.ChaosGroup/ssl.
If you are still unable to proceed after following these troubleshooting steps, please contact Chaos Support. You can do that from the following page.
Exceptions
For Users Borrowing Licenses for Offline Use
If you are currently borrowing licenses for offline use, it is recommended that you update the license server app and re-borrow your licenses once more. Alternatively, you will need to do this when the borrowed licenses expire.
For Chaos License Server 5.5.5 Users
If you are currently using version 5.5.5 or older, which supports running the license server as a service, you should update to version 5.5.6. This version is compatible, runs as a service, and is up to date.
Chaos Vantage is revolutionizing the way artists and designers visualize their projects by offering real-time ray tracing technology that brings unprecedented speed and accuracy to the creative process. With its intuitive interface and seamless integration with V-Ray, Chaos Vantage allows users to instantly explore and present their 3D scenes with breathtaking photorealism. The software’s key features, such as real-time navigation, dynamic lighting adjustments, and GPU acceleration, make it an essential tool for professionals looking to enhance their workflows and deliver stunning visual results.
One of the standout aspects of Chaos Vantage is its ability to handle complex scenes without compromising performance. In this article, we’ll explore the key features of the latest update, showing how these enhancements streamline the design process and empower creatives to experiment with lighting, materials, and camera angles for more impactful visualizations.
Rendering
Real-time rendering
Render your scenes in 100% ray traced real-time through the power of DXR-compatible GPUs. Enjoy physically accurate cameras, lights, and materials while retaining game-like interactivity.
Live Link animation rendering
Get a live raytraced view of your scene, and render animations with a live link from 3ds Max, Maya, SketchUp, Rhino, Revit, and Cinema 4D. Changes you make in your scene will instantly appear in Chaos Vantage.
Denoising
Employ the Vantage native denoiser for real-time noise reduction, leverage the NVIDIA AI DLSS 3.5 Denoiser for high-quality output, or enhance denoising capabilities with the option of Intel Open Image Denoise.
Batch rendering
Easily queue camera views and animation sequence jobs in the render queue.
UI
Live link
Instantly sync changes done to the scene in your DCC without exporting vrscenes.
Material workflow
The material tab lets you easily preview, assign, replace, and search materials for an interactive workflow.
3D navigation
Navigate and direct your cameras using the popular 3DConnexion SpaceMouse controller.
HDR Monitor support
Make your projects extra radiant with HDR monitor support.
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.
Animations & special effects
Animated vegetation
Vantage “Wind” parameter makes supported Cosmos vegetation assets sway realistically, adding realism to your scenes.
Deformed meshes
Animate people and vegatation and create richer animations for your project presentations.
Animation Editor
Easily create animations by dropping cameras, adjusting length, adding transitions and exporting video or image sequences.
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.
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.
Lighting
Global Illumination
Vantage GI is developed to provide maximum lighting accuracy at interactive rendering speed.
Ambient occlusion
Add detail to your renderings with contact shadows using raytraced ambient occlusion.
Geolocated time of day
Perform accurate light studies by quickly and easily setting up the sun for a given date, time and location. Create daylight time-lapse animations with minimum effort.
Sun & Sky
Render realistic daylight for any hour of the day and create any type of cloudy sky with the user-friendly yet powerful procedural cloud system.
Accurate lights
From physically accurate Area lights, to IES lights with real world measured light distribution, to simplified point and spot lights, Vantage renders your lights with raytraced accuracy.
Light instancing
Light instances are preserved and can be controlled easily.
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.
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.
Camera
Virtual reality
See your world from a whole new perspective. Vantage supports head tracking and rendering to HMD headsets, enabling exciting interactive experiences.
Scene states
Assign different light setups, materials, object transformation, and post-process looks to different cameras. Add animations for smooth transitions between different states. Easily recall and send them for batch rendering.
Real-world cameras
Use real world camera parameters and work like a virtual photographer — add depth of field and motion blur to your renders.
Auto Exposure
The camera exposure adjusts automatically as you navigate in your scene.
Bloom effect
Add the popular lens effect to simulate the real-world interaction between the light sources and the camera.
Overlays
Composition guides overlays make it easier to find the perfect frame.
Orthographic cameras
Easily create top-down or facade renderings with the orthographic camera projection.
Materials & textures
Rounded edges
Vantage smoothes sharp edges, eliminating those harsh lines that don’t look quite right.
Decal with cylindrical projection
Easily add stickers, labels, and other graphics to flat surfaces or cylindrical objects like bottles and jars. Adjust the Decal’s projection to perfectly align with the object’s surface curvature in just a few clicks.
UDIM texture support
With UDIM texture support, UV mapping and texturing workflows become easier, simplifying UV map generation and texture assignment. Additionally, Vantage is now capable of rendering UDIMs.
Refraction glossiness
Create realistic frosted glass effects using the refraction glossiness parameter in V-Ray Material.
Shading support
Support for Clear coat in V-Ray Material, V-Ray 2 Sided Material, Glossy Fresnel reflections, Substance textures, VRayBlendMtl, V-Ray MultiSubTex, MultiTexture, ForestColor, Normal maps, and more.
One-click clay override
The powerful Clay option significantly streamlines the material overrides process when setting up lighting or presenting early designs.
Material Coat
Add reflective coating to your material to achieve effects like varnished wood or metallic paint.
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.
Dynamic textures
Vantage automatically resizes the scene textures and uses the most optimal size. This greatly improves memory efficiency and allows you to load even larger scenes.
Normal maps
Add depth detail like bumps and dents to improve the realism of your surface material.
Image sequences as textures
Turn the TV on or light up the fireplace by using image file lists to animate textures.
Randomizer
Remove repeating patterns and add more realism to your textures using randomization controls.
Geometry
Chaos Cosmos integration
A collection of high-quality, render-ready 3D assets, HDR images and materials that quickly add believable entourage to your interior or exterior scene.
Chaos 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.
Support for Anima4D assets
Chaos has partnered with AXYZ to provide support for its high-quality 3D library of animated 4D people and crowds.
Mesh Lights
Turn any geometry into a direct light source for even more artistic lighting. Mesh lights are now rendered much faster than before.
Hair & Fur
Create realistic carpets, rugs, animal pelts and even grass with Vantage’s support for V-Ray Fur. You can also achieve lifelike hair with precise highlights and customizable glint and glitter controls with the support for VRayHairNextMtl.
Displacement
Create intricate geometric details from textures, ideal for designing bas-reliefs, pavements, brick/stone walls, and similar structures that are challenging to model manually.
Post production
Render Elements
Add the most popular render elements, as well as object and material masks to fine tune your images in post.
Filmic Tonemapping
Simulate different real-world films’ color gamma to color correct images.
Color correction
Remap the image colors using present color corrections from a LUT file.
If you would like to purchase Chaos Vantage, please contact us at chaos@microsolresources.com.
If you are not sure about upgrading your licenses, you can request a free 30-day trial, to get an overview of its new features and functionality. You can test it out with your team and find out how this product will improve your workflow.
Chaos Vantage is an essential tool for Archviz artists and VFX professionals, offering real-time ray tracing capabilities that revolutionize the way 3D scenes are visualized. With Vantage, you can navigate complex scenes with ease, making it possible to explore and refine your work in an interactive environment.
Its seamless integration with popular 3D modeling software ensures that your renders are not only stunningly realistic but also achieved with unprecedented speed and efficiency. Whether you’re working on architectural visualizations or high-end visual effects, Chaos Vantage provides the power and flexibility needed to bring your creative vision to life with remarkable accuracy and detail.
Use Chaos Vantage as an Archviz artist
1. Explore & present unlimited design variations.
Switch between design options, material schemes, and lighting configurations to compare, explain, and explore all the possibilities you have for your design or its presentation.
2. See every aspect of your scene as you model.
A real-time companion view, unaffected by scene size, that gives you a highly realistic perspective of your scene as you adjust materials, lighting, and geometry.
3. Render incredibly fast
Produce high-quality renderings and animations in record time at a quality level that makes approval easy — including all the render elements needed for post-production.
Use Chaos Vantage as a VFX professional
1. Playblasts at exceptional quality
Playblasts that convey the actual materials and lighting of your production for far more meaningful review and approval.
2. Previz with full-size scenes, that can be reused in production
Ray tracing in real-time without scene simplification or baking, using the same materials and lighting as your production team.
3. Real-time reference
A real-time ray-traced view that closely matches your production rendering results as you finalize your scene. Also perfect for over-the-shoulder discussions while making decisions.
If you would like to purchase Chaos Vantage, please contact us at chaos@microsolresources.com.
If you are not sure about upgrading your licenses, you can request a free 30-day trial, to get an overview of its new features and functionality. You can test it out with your team and find out how this product will improve your workflow.
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