Software brings together real-time ray tracing, animation and smart assets into a single architect-friendly environment
Following its beta launch last year, Chaos has released Chaos Envision, a real-time storytelling tool that helps architects and designers turn 3D models into immersive, cinematic presentations. Chaos has also announced a range of ‘affordable’ suites of curated, industry-specific tools for architectural design, architectural visualisation, and media and entertainment.
“Envision offers new alternatives for architects that have had to find workarounds to avoid compromising on quality, speed and flexibility in their presentations,” said Petr Mitev, VP of solutions for designers at Chaos. “Now, anyone can produce high-fidelity visuals much earlier in the process, tapping V-Ray-like photorealism to resolve internal questions and get more stakeholders on board.”
Chaos Envision can bring multiple 3D components into its collaborative environment. The software accepts content from any application that hosts Enscape or V-Ray and can import common industry formats, so users ‘don’t have to worry about scene prep or data loss’. All lighting, materials and assets from their original CAD or Enscape design will carry over as-is.
Users can add entourage with Chaos Cosmos, and through a direct integration with the Chaos Anima engine, drag-and-drop ‘hyper-realistic 4D people and crowds’ with AI-enhanced behaviour into scenes, and then direct their movement by assigning them a path. Paths can also be applied to other objects and cameras for more cinematic looks.
In addition, Envision supports variation-based animation to help designers depict sun studies, construction phasing or even cycle through design options
Each visualisation can also be rendered with ray-traced realism. According to Chaos, this gives designers access to real-time and offline accuracy, even when polygon counts run into the trillions.
“What stands out to me is being able to import different rendering software files into Envision and edit them there without having to go back to the original programmes, all without any lag,” said architect David Tomic.
Chaos Suites
The new industry-specific Chaos Suites for architectural design, architectural visualisation, and media and entertainment, offers three options: Solo, Premium and Collection based on one of the flagship products—Enscape, V-Ray or Corona.
With the Architectural Design suites users start with the Enscape Solo option, or upgrade to the Enscape Premium suite, which includes the AI-powered Veras for faster ideation, design interactions and enhanced image details. The Enscape Collection adds Chaos Envision and Enscape Impact
With the Archvis suites, the Solo suite features V-Ray or Corona, along with the complete Chaos Cosmos asset library, while the Premium version adds the Chaos Phoenix dynamic simulator, the Chaos Player and 20 Chaos Cloud credits. The Collection includes everything from the Premium suite, as well as Chaos’ real-time ray tracer Chaos Vantage and the crowd/people animation system Chaos Anima.
The Media & Entertainment suites are built around V-Ray and include Vantage, Anima, Phoenix, Player and 20 Chaos Cloud credits—everything artists need to bring any idea to life.
