Chaos has announced the release of Vantage 2.4, introducing support for importing and creating V-Ray Decal, along with the ability to nest V-Ray scenes within other V-Ray scenes. Materials now include a “Thin walled” option in V-Ray material. The update also adds support for UDIM textures, enhancing texture workflows.
For color corrections, a white balance option has been added to the color correction tab, and most VFB color correction settings can now be loaded from .vrscene files, including exposure, filmic, white balance, hue/saturation, color balance, and LUT. Camera settings now support “Auto-exposure” and “exposure bias” from .vrscene or Live-link. Lighting enhancements include a dome light “horizontal flip” option from Maya.
User interface and user experience improvements feature a search filter functionality in the Scene Outliner. The animation editor now supports imported animated cameras in/out range settings, as well as undo/redo actions.
The update brings several modifications. Geometry handling sees improved scatter generation and update for detailed target and area include/exclude meshes, along with better denoising of deforming geometry. UI/UX enhancements include the ability to select scatter and fur objects in the viewport and improved tooltips timing. The denoiser has been updated to DLSS-RR version 3.7. Performance improvements include better playback with a small number of animated instances and a large number of non-animated instances, and improved dynamic textures update performance.
Various fixes address issues such as incorrect orientation when merging animated scenes with different Up vectors, rendering problems with Chaos Cosmos assets exported from Maya, crashes when modifying key shortcuts, disappearing popup dialogs for camera settings, and procedural objects not hiding correctly when their parent objects are hidden. Additionally, a fix for NVENC failure when falling back from AV1 to H264 on older GPUs and an installer issue where it wouldn’t proceed without a V-Ray License Service installed were also included.
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