Enscape - DIGITAL PRODUCTION https://digitalproduction.com Magazine for Digital Media Production Thu, 28 May 2026 15:36:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/digitalproduction.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/cropped-dp-logo-kurz-weiss-auf-schwarz.png?fit=32%2C32&quality=72&ssl=1 Enscape - DIGITAL PRODUCTION https://digitalproduction.com 32 32 236729828 Chaos puts Veras everywhere https://digitalproduction.com/2026/05/29/chaos-puts-veras-everywhere/ Fri, 29 May 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://digitalproduction.com/?p=282854 A vibrant mural illuminates the side of a modern building in the evening twilight. Colorful geometric patterns dance across its facade, blending hues of red, blue, and yellow. Street lamps cast a warm glow on the surrounding trees and empty benches, adding to the serene ambiance.

Veras lands inside V-Ray, Corona, and Enscape, powered by Chaos Credits. Corona 15 adds faster animation parsing and 3D streaming.

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]]> A vibrant mural illuminates the side of a modern building in the evening twilight. Colorful geometric patterns dance across its facade, blending hues of red, blue, and yellow. Street lamps cast a warm glow on the surrounding trees and empty benches, adding to the serene ambiance.

For those who don’t know the tool: Veras is AI ideation inside Enscape, V-Ray, and Corona, sitting next to viewport rendering and final-frame output.

Veras stops being a side quest

Chaos has expanded Veras integration beyond Enscape into V-Ray and Corona, positioning AI ideation as a built-in step rather than a separate app. In Corona, Veras works from a screenshot taken from the Corona VFB, and can generate multiple concepts at any stage. It also supports turning a still into a short animation using Veras, with no complex animation setup required. In V-Ray, Veras appears as part of scene setup and ideation, including moodboards and fast look exploration inside the V-Ray workflow.

A modern, multi-story wooden building stands prominently among tall pine trees, bathed in bright sunlight. The structure's expansive glass windows reflect the blue sky, while the lush green lawn in the foreground is dotted with benches, creating a serene and inviting atmosphere.
A modern wooden building stands amidst lush greenery, bathed in golden sunlight. Tall pines frame the scene, while scattered benches invite relaxation. People enjoy the fresh air, creating a lively yet serene atmosphere, with soft mist hovering over the vibrant grass.
Before and After – AI generated “sky and lights”

Credits are the new render tokens

To run the AI features and certain services across Enscape, V-Ray, and Corona, Chaos introduced Chaos Credits as a unified credit system. Credits apply to Veras, AI Upscaler, AI Enhancer, and cloud rendering, with platform availability depending on the feature. Monthly credit allowances come with active subscriptions and reset each billing cycle. Solo plans include 100 credits per month, Premium includes 500, and Collection includes 1,500. Veras standalone plans list 2,000 credits per month for Veras Pro and 6,000 for Veras Ultra. Unused monthly allowance credits do not roll over.

A contemporary office space featuring large windows with natural light illuminating the room. Wooden beams and a brick wall complement sleek desks with ergonomic chairs. Green plants add a refreshing touch, enhancing the vibrant and inviting atmosphere.
A bright and contemporary office space featuring large windows with sunlight streaming in. Several individuals are engaged in a meeting at a wooden table, surrounded by greenery. Workstations with monitors and ergonomic chairs are arranged in the foreground.

Top-ups also exist as subscription-style credit packs on the Chaos Credits page. A monthly refresh 250 pack is listed at €7.90, a monthly refresh 1000 pack at €23.90, and a monthly refresh 3000 pack at €47.90. Prices do not include taxes. Subscription pricing for the main renderer plans is not specified in the Sources. This is also where the wrokflow question gets real for teams: credits turn AI ideation into something you may want to track like any other billable resource. Or you have to train your artists not to follow ideas as long as the client doesn’t get a bill for them.

One installer to rule the Windows machines

Alongside the AI integration push, Chaos documents a unified installer called Chaos Installer. It installs all purchased products at their latest versions, and it is currently available only for Windows.

During installation, the installer supports two licensing models: Cloud Licensing and a License Server. Cloud Licensing relies on signing in with a Chaos account and using products from any location with an internet connection. The License Server supports centralized network setups and typically requires being on the same local network or connecting through a VPN. If you have ever had to install three different renderers, three license components, and then explain it all to IT, the idea is clear, even before you try it.

A glossy blue sphere sits prominently on a circular base, featuring metallic accents and silver bolts, surrounded by a professional color calibration chart. The textured surface sparkles under soft lighting, enhancing its vivid hue. Background grids create a neutral, studio-like ambiance.

Corona 15 leans into animation and review loops

Corona 15 brings a mix of AI, shading, animation, and collaboration updates. On the rendering side, Corona 15 adds a Glints layer in the Physical Material. It also adds behavior where Gaussian splats can interact with GI bounces, letting splats bounce global illumination light onto 3D models.

A delicate cluster of dried grass and wildflowers peeking through a soft blanket of pristine snow, glistening under the sunlight. The snow sparkles with tiny crystals, creating a serene winter landscape, with gentle shadows dancing across the white surface.

A unique light override material enables different looks under specific light sources. Corona for Cinema 4D gets initial support for rendering native Cinema 4D particles, described as an early foundation.

A tranquil night scene captures a serene landscape under a starry sky. A full moon bathes the lush greenery in a soft glow, highlighting vibrant wildflowers in an array of colors. Silhouetted trees stand gracefully, framed by distant hills.

On the animation side, Corona for 3ds Max adds faster animation parsing by updating only what changes between frames instead of re-parsing the entire scene each time. Corona also adds Video Collaboration support in Chaos Cloud Collaboration, and it introduces 3D Streaming and 3D walkthroughs via shareable links that viewers can open on any device with no software installation.

New tools and shiny integrations still need a proper test pass before you trust them in production, especially when credits, licensing, the rabid bookkeeping department and AI output variability (e.a, Halluzinations) sit in the same critical path.

https://www.chaos.com/vray

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]]> DIGITAL PRODUCTION 282854 Chaos Vantage 3 update 2 adds Toon https://digitalproduction.com/2026/03/30/chaos-vantage-3-update-2-adds-toon/ Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:00:00 +0000 https://digitalproduction.com/?p=263369 A modern living room featuring a light-colored sofa with cushions and books on a side table. A glass bottle sits on another table, while a figure stands nearby, wearing glasses. Bright natural light filters through large windows with sheer curtains.

Toon shading meets splats and VDB export in Vantage, while Enscape 4.17 quietly tidies DLSS, lights, and exports. Less drama, more frames.

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]]> A modern living room featuring a light-colored sofa with cushions and books on a side table. A glass bottle sits on another table, while a figure stands nearby, wearing glasses. Bright natural light filters through large windows with sheer curtains.

For those who don’t know the tool: Vantage is a real-time ray tracing renderer that can sit beside Enscape and slot into USD and MaterialX heavy pipelines when you want fast lookdev without a nap.

Chaos Vantage 3 update 2 comes with a focus on practical scene-side control: new post looks, more object shapes, deeper simulation tweaks, and workflow glue that keeps artists in the viewport longer.

A side-by-side comparison of three rendered images of a modern living room scene. The first shows the original rendering without effects, the second features toon outlines, and the third displays a clay mode with toon outlines.

The headline addition is a Toon post effect. It adds a stylized look as a post step, which means you can push a non-photoreal pass without rebuilding materials or rerouting a full shading graph. The feature is presented as a post effect, so it lives where you would expect to audition looks quickly, then iterate.

Water got attention too. The Water surface object now supports Circle, Infinite, and Custom shapes, making it easier to fit a surface to a set or shot without faking scale. The watre surface animation can also be previewed in real time, and Wind picked up an Affect water option in the Environment tab to toggle that preview on or off.

Three side-by-side images showing different water environments: a clear swimming pool with reflections, a serene lake surrounded by greenery, and a tranquil sea with gentle waves, all under a sunny sky.

VR workflows also moved forward. There is support for VR joysticks teleportation and object manipulation, aimed at navigating and adjusting scenes more directly inside a headset. If your review culture leans on immersive approvals, this is the kind of change that reduces mouse time and increases useful gestures. If your review culture leans on never touching a headset, nothing breaks.

Splats and smoke get more production-like controls

Gaussian splats gained explicit support for creating and importing Gaussian splats objects, and those objects now have editable properties. That makes splats feel less like a read-only curiosity and more like a scene element you can actually manage.

Three images of a bathtub showcasing a pink flamingo pool float at different scales: 0.5, 1, and 1.5. Each image includes a wooden bath tray with a candle and a drink, surrounded by natural elements like rocks and greenery.

The Fluid simulator object also expanded in ways that map cleanly to shot polish. Smoke expansion and Temperature expansion properties were added, giving more control over how sims evolve. The simulator can now export OpenVDB cache files, which matters because it turns an internal sim result into something you can hand off, archive, or try elsewhere.

A digital interface displaying settings for Gaussian Splats, featuring options for Scale, Intensity, Color selection, and Flip Axis with a dark background and white text.

On the quality side, micro vorticity generation and detail improved, and the default pivot moved to the bottom center of the grid container. These are the sorts of adjustments that make an effect feel less like a demo and more like a tool you can steer.

There is also a performance angle. Multi GPU performance improved, and the fluid simulator performance improved. A temporary memory usage spike was removed when changing resolution with NVIDIA DLSS.

UI changes that reduce scavenger hunts

Update 2 added a new Create Objects button in the toolbar that centralizes all available object creation in one place. The Scale type-in dialog gained an object size in scene units property, which helps when you need a known dimension and do not want to eyeball a gizmo. Background Image in Screen mode can now be offset on X and Y, and first person navigation gained an option to move along the camera view direction instead of horizontally. That navigation option is a global preference set in Edit then Preferences then Interaction, which is a very specific breadcrumb trail, but at least it is now a breadcrumb trail that goes somewhere. Creation behavior also improved in a small but meaningful way: creating a fluid simulator object now automatically sets selected objects as emitters.

Enscape 4.17.0 quietly patches the sharp edges

Enscape 4.17.0 shipped with a mix of performance and workflow changes, plus a long list of targeted bug fixes. On the improvements side, NVIDIA DLSS was updated to version 310.5 with bug fixes and stability improvements. Light clustering behavior improved in orthographic view so lights group and separate more predictably while zooming and navigating. The Visual Settings Presets panel now starts expanded by default.

For Archicad, all-user installation support improved by registering Enscape in the AddOns folder. On Windows, users created after installation will also have it installed.

There are also fixes for clearcoat handling in light reflections, a sky that can appear pixelated in video previews and exports, and Billboard geometry disappearing when the camera gets very close. Asset Library placement performance improved in older placement modes. The Material Editor feedback button for the AI Material Generator was fixed. The V-Ray Scene Export path was addressed too: large scene files caused by duplicating geometry of asset instances, plus a case where Scene Export could crash.

Batch Rendering got a crash fix when canceling while Light Management is active. Enscape Impact fixes address energy performance results display when reopening after a successful analysis run, and invalid Impact Report data in imperial units.

Pricing and where this lands on your budget spreadsheet

Pricing for Vantage is specified as $54.90 per month for Vantage Standalone when billed annually, shown as $658.80 for one license billed annually.

Pricing for Enscape is specified as $47.90 per month for an Enscape Solo plan when billed annually, shown as $574.80 for one license billed annually.

Both sets of numbers are the kind that make producers ask whether you can do it with screenshots. You can, but you will not like it.


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