Chaos Vantage 2, update 5 with VR and animated vegetation

These are huge news for those using Chaos Vantage: Chaos has just released the 5th update to their real-time ray-tracer Chaos Vantage, bringing the much anticipated support for VR and new animated vegetation with procedural wind straight from Chaos Cosmos, among other things.

The full list of new features:

Virtual Reality

Initial(WIP) support for interactive rendering in VR headsets.
Details
Ensure an appropriate OpenXR runtime is set in the VR's respective app:
- Windows Mixed Reality: "Mixed Reality Portal" > "Settings" > "Set up OpenXR".
- Oculus: "Oculus" app > "Settings" > "General" > "Set Oculus as Active".
- SteamVR: "SteamVR" app > "Settings" > "Developer" > "Set SteamVR as OpenXR Runtime

Animation

Support for Chaos Cosmos animated vegetation assets.
Details

Materials

Support for VRayEdgesTex in bump and rounded corners.

Geometry

Support for animated partial object visibility.

Rendering

Support for ACEScg rendering color space.
Tool for quickly saving a previz video with DLSS.
Details

UI/UX

Search filtering and sorting for scene objects, lights, and cameras.
Progress bar for importing assets.
Added meter scale information in the log and Scene stats.
Added "Flip horizontally" option to the Background image.
Details
Added ability to drag and drop files onto FilePath property labels(LUTs, Environment texture, Background texture, Point, Spot, Directional Projection textures).

Color Corrections

Loading chromatic aberration from VFB settings in .vrscene.

As usual, this is an update you should not miss. The full list of changes and updates can be found here.

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Chaos has just released the 5th update to their real-time ray-tracer Chaos Vantage, bringing the much anticipated support for VR and new animated vegetation with procedural wind straight from Chaos Cosmos, among other things.

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