Chaos Vantage 2 released

Explore your most complex V-Ray 3D production scenes ray traced in real-time. With Chaos Vantage, there are no time-consuming conversions. Simply drag and drop your complete V-Ray scene into Vantage and start exploring. Quickly create high-quality visualizations or pre-visualizations for architecture, film-making, automotive and more.

Vantage 2 - the latest version of real-time ray tracing software for V-Ray scenes. With nearly 20 new features, Vantage 2 is as powerful for VFX as it is for architectural visualization, providing easy access to photorealistic animations, previs, and scene explorations at lightning speeds.

Here are a few highlights of the new additions:

• Scene states — Toggle between different moods and variations of your project and turn them into interactive storyboards.
• Deforming meshes — Visualize realistic vegetation moving in the wind and animated people interacting with their design.
• Render elements — Composite your images with support for popular render elements like “back to beauty” and material and object masks.
• Scattering fog - Set the mood for your scenes with realistic environmental effects such as god rays, street lights, light shafts, etc.

More on Chaos site.