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.
In a world where climate change is one of the most significant challenges, the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry stands at the frontier of change for sustainable development. With buildings responsible for a significant percentage of global carbon emissions, integrating performance analysis seamlessly into the architectural design process is valuable.
Contextualizing our sustainability challenge
Buildings are more than the sum of their parts; their creation, operation, and eventual dismantling are pivotal moments where choices are made that can either further intensify our carbon footprint or lead us toward a more sustainable future.
The statistics are substantial: buildings account for a staggering 39% of the global energy-related carbon emissions. Digging deeper, 28% of these emissions arise from day-to-day operational activities, predominantly the energy used for heating, cooling, and powering the built environment, while the remaining 11% originates from materials and construction processes. Decarbonizing the building sector became a necessity.
Decarbonizing the built environment
The idea is to democratize access to building performance and analytics technology. The Enscape Impact add-on was recently released, a tool designed to transform how architects evaluate their creations’ sustainability early in the design process.
Developed in partnership with global tech company IES, the tool integrates IES energy modeling capabilities. It’s enhanced with energy efficiency information, simulated energy use, and carbon emissions indicators to guide your early design decisions.
Enscape Impact is more than just the latest addition to architectural visualization tools. It’s an innovative approach to visualizing building performance that eliminates the disconnect between energy modeling and design creativity, putting the power of sustainable design in the hands of architects.
Adding a layer of analysis to your design workflow
Immediate, intuitive, and integrated
Enscape Impact offers a fast and intuitive modality for assessing a design’s environmental impact. Architects can now make empirical evaluations of their buildings’ efficiency with minimal interruptions to their design flow. What used to be a separate phase, often detached from real-time design iterations, is seamlessly woven into the architectural process.
Accessible data-driven design decisions
Education is at the heart of democratizing access to technology. With Enscape Impact, even those unfamiliar with energy modeling and performance analysis can engage meaningfully with sustainable design. Educational tooltips will guide users through the analytical process, making the learning curve as gentle as it is informative.
Effortless and reliable
Effortless does not mean inaccurate; on the contrary, the insights provided by Enscape Impact are powered by the APACHE engine, developed by global climate tech company IES. Over the last 30 years, they have built a solid reputation as the leading global innovator in integrated performance-based building analysis and are now home to the largest building physics analytics team in the world.
Widely regarded as the best whole-building energy simulation engine in the world, the powerful APACHE engine performs dynamic thermal simulations to provide detailed insights into a building’s performance.
The Enscape Impact interface is designed to provide architects and designers with clear, visual representations of the energy use within their designs, from peak loads and total carbon emission to more complex data sets. This intuitive representation is an invaluable asset that architects can use to communicate the sustainability status of their designs to clients and stakeholders.
Bridging a new gap
Workflow companion for sustainability
Tightly integrated with all supported Enscape host applications (Revit, SketchUp, Vectorworks, Archicad, and Rhino), Enscape Impact is designed as a workflow companion to the Enscape core product, ready to contribute to the creative synergy between energy performance and aesthetic design.
Rapid analysis supports quick exploration and evaluation and nurtures the iterative process at the heart of great architectural work. The beta version is currently available on Windows only, but a version for macOS is in the works.
More efficient and effective collaboration
Enscape Impact is not only for architects and designers but also serves the AEC community at large. BIM managers and engineers benefit from more efficient and effective collaboration. They can engage with architects earlier in the design process, shaping solutions that are not only aesthetically pleasing but fully aligned with the project’s sustainability goals.
An accessible and affordable solution
For those considering integrating Enscape Impact into their workflow, Enscape offers a cost-effective solution with robust modeling accuracy and affordable licensing models. The tool’s minimal hardware requirements make it accessible, avoiding the need for high-spec equipment.
The importance of prioritizing performance
In an increasingly eco-conscious market, green architecture isn’t just ethical—it’s also a competitive advantage. The building performance component allows architects to set a new standard in the industry, creating spaces that don’t just stand out for their aesthetics but are also appreciated for their minimal environmental impact and reaching sustainability standards.
The decisions made in the early stages of a project have long-lasting consequences. Use Enscape Impact to your advantage: prioritize building performance, design smarter, and build better.
Enscape 4.1 is here! This release introduces a set of new features, including Enscape Impact and an add-on beta version that is available with 4.1, which is available to you now.
This latest version focuses on elevating visualization and performance. Its features and functionalities let you create visually stunning designs while ensuring they are viable, energy-efficient, and sustainable.
In addition to Enscape Impact Beta, 4.1 includes:
Chaos AI Enhancer
Artistic visual modes
Colored shadows update
New vegetation and people assets
Integrated graphics support
Chaos Cloud
Key features in Enscape 4.1
Enscape Impact Beta (Windows)
Enscape Impact is a Windows-only add-on developed in partnership with IES, a leading global innovator in building design and analysis software. It is designed to integrate real-time rendering with building performance analytics seamlessly. It features:
Real-time energy analysis
An integrated workflow with your chosen CAD or BIM application
Educational tooltips and minimal data entry requirements
Data accuracy for informed decision-making.
Enscape 4.1 gives you the chance to be one of the first to test the beta version. See how easy it can be to design sustainable and efficient buildings and eliminate the gap between energy modeling and design visualization. Enscape Impact Beta is currently available on Windows only, but a version for macOS is in the works. To access the beta, simply download Enscape 4.1 and ensure you are using a commercial license.
How does an ‘add-on’ differ from a ‘feature?’ An add-on is a supplementary tool that extends the functionality of Enscape, giving you a more intuitive and flexible way to empower your design workflow. It works together with Enscape but develops its functionality as a separate product. While the beta version comes with no added cost, there will be a cost associated with Enscape Impact’s commercial launch.
Chaos AI Enhancer
Chaos AI Enhancer is an experimental feature for active Enscape users that improves realism in your renderings without sacrificing performance. It utilizes AI to elevate Enscape assets, specifically people and vegetation, so you can enhance the entourage that helps tell your story.
Many of Enscape’s people and vegetation assets are produced in-house, adhering to a strict budget of polygons that lets you place multiple assets without loss in performance. Chaos AI Enhancer gives you better-looking assets straight from Enscape. By leveraging the knowledge of the underlying scene in our AI engine solution, Chaos AI Enhancer offers superior results compared to other AI-generated images. To keep your design intent intact, only areas with assets and vegetation are enhanced.
Realistic assets bring a project to life and help clients understand design intent faster. With just one click, you can have enhanced assets in your renderings without spending time post-processing or using additional tools. Simply focus on designing and let AI elevate your visuals.
AI-enhanced image
Non-AI-enhanced image
Artistic visual modes
Express your creativity freely with the new artistic visual modes. Create visual effects that simulate pen, pencil, or watercolor drawings to illustrate your design ideas uniquely and artistically during the conceptual stage of your workflow.
This feature lets you adjust your presentation style to your client’s needs. It removes distractions and enables them to focus on the general structure of the model, equipping them to make better design decisions faster. The new visual styles are available for walkthroughs, screenshots, batch rendering, and video exports.
The various visual modes are now available.
Colored shadows for artificial light sources
Add a splash of color to your interior scenes with colored shadows for artificial light sources. Prior to this feature’s development, colored shadows were shown only in sunlight. Now, you can see the colored shadows through colored glass when artificial lights are on.
Create an engaging atmosphere with colored glass partition walls, colored semi-transparent furniture, and decorative objects that leave a kaleidoscopic impression. You’ll see the difference in interior renderings when artificial lighting complements natural light or is the only illumination source. Make sure the hardware ray-tracing feature is enabled.
Colored sun shadows update
Last year, the colored sun shadows were introduced to Enscape. This feature creates a colored shadow from sunlight that travels through colored glass, giving your scene amazing effects and a special atmosphere – and we’ve added an update!
Now, you can add textures to the glass material and have the drop shadows reflect the texture patterns. This is a great function if you are using stained glass in your designs, as you no longer have to model the whole window geometry.
Also, with this update, the fog setting has more accurate coloration at sunrise and sunset. This means the distinctive orange hue is consistently represented regardless of the quality setting used. In high and ultra settings, the fidelity of fog shadows is increased as the interaction between colored shadows and fog becomes more realistic. Ensure hardware ray-tracing is enabled.
Vegetation and people assets
As with every major release, more assets are added to the Enscape Asset Library. This time around, there are 122 new vegetation assets added to the collection. Fill your scene with trees, shrubs, and plants native to the regions of Europe, North America, and Japan.
This batch includes 10 new unique people assets for you to integrate human scale into your scenes. Speaking of people assets, in May, Enscape introduced 168 static people assets that are also part of the AXYZ library. This group of 3D assets brings even more variation with children and elderly people assets. It also includes people who are visibly from culturally diverse backgrounds.
Along with the vegetation and people assets, Enscape 4.1 includes 23 Cylindo Studio Props to create a more accurate representation of interior scenes. Whether you want to add lush landscapes to complement your building or improve the perception of proportion with an entourage, assets enable you to bring your designs to life.
Integrated graphics support
If you’re budget-constrained or cannot purchase a machine with a dedicated GPU, you’ll be delighted to hear about the introduction of integrated graphics support.
You can now use Enscape on Windows computers with Intel and AMD iGPUs (integrated graphics processing units), as the dependence on computers that have a separate dedicated GPU is no longer valid. This accessibility lets you use Enscape while working on-site or while traveling and benefit from a more flexible and cost-effective way of visualizing.
Chaos Cloud
Chaos Cloud is now available for Enscape users. This feature lets you enjoy fast and easy design reviews in the cloud. Mark up and review features by uploading renders and panoramas and sharing them with reviewers. Use comments, attachments, and visual annotation tools to communicate feedback in one place.
You can also create virtual tours from panoramas and renders, customize hotspots, add highlights to guide users and showcase design options, assign floor plans, and enjoy tour navigation assistance with a minimap. It is currently free to use, but you will need to migrate your content, and it requires a Chaos Account Login.
It’s worth noting that there is a slight limitation for Enscape users at this point in time. Exports cannot be uploaded directly to Chaos Cloud. Instead, you have to use a workaround by downloading exports to your computer and dragging them to the Chaos Cloud App. The link for exporting directly to Chaos Cloud from Enscape will be available shortly with the Enscape 4.1.1 release.
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