Chaos Scans Plug-in is a collection of materials that would take you hours to create by hand, scanned to perfection. Enjoy over 2500 pre-made materials that fit perfectly in your V-Ray workflow with a simple drag and drop.
The subscription includes access to the Chaos Scans Library, which contains over 2500 pre-scanned materials ready to be applied to 3D visualizations in 3ds Max, Maya, Rhino, SketchUp, Revit and Modo. The growing collection includes samples of car paint, fabric, leather, wood, plastic, metal and more.
Why Chaos Scans
Photoreal materials |
Complex materials made simple Chaos Scans require no prior material-building knowledge, or use of reference materials. Simply choose your desired scan, drop it on a surface and you’re ready to render. |
Great variety Render a wide selection of physical materials including car paint, plastic, leather, fabric, foil and more. Plus, we’ve teamed up with some of the finest real world producers, so you can present your clients with the actual material you’ll be using before building your design. |
Built for V-Ray Chaos Scans work seamlessly across the V-Ray products portfolio. You get to keep your design intent while having full flexibility to move your work across your favorite content creation tools. |
Key Features
Properties
- Incredibly photoreal – Chaos Scans uses high-quality hardware to capture the material’s texture in exceptional quality. No loss of detail, fidelity, or color.
- Physically accurate – Chaos Scans are created from thousands of images, capturing a material’s bidirectional texture function (BTF), recreating a material’s true surface appearance and response to light.
- Volumetric translucency – Chaos Scans materials capture translucency in volumetric materials with varying thickness.
- Seamlessly tileable – Chaos Scans materials repeat without joins.
- Customizable – Fine-tune the appearance of materials directly in your favorite content creation tool.
- Triplannar mapping – Chaos scans materials can be applied by proprietary triplannar mapping, which removes the need for explicit UV mapping.
- Render Elements – Chaos Scans support separation into several render elements: clear coat reflections, direct light, indirect lighting by spawned rays, opacity and received caustics stored.
- GPU support – Chaos Scans are compatible with V-Ray GPU for increased performance and flexibility.
Material types
- Car paints & paints – Simulate the look of highly-detailed car paint, complete with orange peel and clear coat.
- Reflective & holographic materials – Render complex reflective and holographic surfaces.
- Highly reflective materials – Our proprietary scanning technology enables you to recreate even highly reflective surfaces like foils.
- Translucent materials – The industry’s first technology capable of scanning & rendering translucent materials.
Specs
Support & Maintenance
A Chaos scans Plug-in major version has active SOFTWARE SUPPORT & MAINTENANCE from its release date to the following next major release date. During the SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE stage Chaos will:
- Release minor updates including patches, bug fixes, service packs, enhancements, new minor features, and platform compatibility updates.
- Provide support and technical assistance to clients.
- Provide software builds for download.
HW Suggestions
Recommended System Specification
NOVEDGE is an authorized HP reseller that offers a wide range of professional quality notebooks and workstations to meet your hardware needs.
In addition, NOVEDGE works with High Speed Computing to customize workstations to give you the perfect hardware for your design needs at a competitive price. Contact us to discuss pre-built and custom configuration workstations and laptops.
You can find our selection of high performance hardware products at this LINK.
Below you can try our free experimental AI Service, which makes computer hardware recommendations for selected design software products. Our goal is to make it as good as a first line support human person, and it can work for you 24/7. Please give us your feedback to help make this service as good as it can be.
If you need help with sales instead, we have an excellent human team that will be happy to help you find the products best fit your needs from our very large selection of standard and custom workstations and laptops. You can get in touch with them by email at [email protected] or phone at 1-415-848-9018.
Autodesk Civil 3D
Bluebeam
Cinema 4D
DraftSight
KeyShot
PTC Creo
PTC Mathcad
Revit
Rhino 3D
Sketch-Up
V-Ray
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