At SIGGRAPH 2025, Chaos launched new help for USD, MaterialX and Gaussian Splats inside Chaos Area, permitting groups real-time path tracing on any digital manufacturing.
These new developments proceed Chaos’ aim to assist groups use the identical belongings all through your entire manufacturing course of. By supporting open requirements like USD and MaterialX, Chaos’ real-time path tracers will turn out to be immediately accessible to any artist, whether or not they make use of V-Ray or not. Now, belongings and shaders created outdoors the Chaos ecosystem may be introduced into Area with out alterations to create fast digital productions. Vantage help will observe quickly, opening up high-quality playblasts, previz and look dev to non-V-Ray customers as properly.
“For years, asset rebuilds have been one of many largest complications in previz and digital manufacturing,” stated Vlado Koylazov, head of innovation at Chaos. “Now, anybody can entry a completely raytraced workflow from preproduction to submit with out ever remaking their belongings, which not solely speeds every thing up, however helps groups enhance the visible high quality of each manufacturing.”
To additional support previz and digital manufacturing workflows, Gaussian Splats help will allow quick, photorealistic scene rendering from real-world captures. Artists can freely add or modify 3D objects to swimsuit their inventive imaginative and prescient, whereas leveraging raytraced splats to convey extra realism to a scene.
Further new options coming to Vantage and Area embody:
- OpenVDB Quantity Rendering — Actual-time volumes can quickly be rendered instantly in each merchandise, extending their use in high-end visible results.
- Materials Parameter Controls — Quickly, supplies may be refined at a extra nuanced degree, providing extra inventive freedom through the previz course of.
- Digital Digital camera Set-ups — Digital camera monitoring may also be obtainable in Vantage, making Chaos’ real-time path tracing much more accessible to streamers, previz groups and smaller-scale digital productions with out entry to an LED wall.
- KitBash3D USD Asset Assist — KitBash3D’s manufacturing prepared library of over 20,000 premium 3D belongings at the moment are appropriate with Vantage and Area making it sooner than ever to construct complicated, photorealistic worlds. Chaos lately examined this to nice success of their newest Area promo, that includes a completely textured cyberpunk membership introduced in with only a couple clicks utilizing the facility of USD via KitBash3D’s software program, Cargo.
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This entry was posted in 2D, 3D, Information, submit manufacturing, SIGGRAPH, VFX and tagged 3D, Chaos Group, Gaussian Splats, submit manufacturing, Siggraph, VFX on August 12, 2025.
