Changes include a new cloud system, support for animated textures, and performance improvements.

Chaos has launched Vantage 1.8 – an update for the real-time ray tracing tool.

The new version adds a cloud system to the Physical Sky environment model. You can enable clouds and change them, adjusting multiple parameters, including density, variety, thickness, and more.

The update also implements Filmic Tonemapper, Hue/Saturation and Contrast color corrections in the Post tab along with composition grid overlays like Rule of Thirds, Central Cross, Golden Spiral, Golden Ratio, and Diagonals. In addition, it now supports animated textures.

Chaos has made several performance improvement changes. Vantage now has an option for dynamic textures to reduce GPU memory usage as well as increase FPS by decreasing sampling quality and pause rendering after reaching a certain sample level.

Chaos Vantage is available for Windows 10. You need an NVIDIA RTX GPU and NVIDIA driver 436.02 or newer. It is currently available for download as a free license valid until September 21, 2022.

Learn more about the updates here.