Chaos moves to eliminate tool hopping

Chaos announced that its AI-powered vis tool, Veras, is now integrated directly into every version of Enscape, V-Ray, and Corona, making AI ideation more accessible and efficient at every stage of the architectural design and visualization process. Chaos also announced several product updates.

Tool hopping can be time-consuming and distracting, especially when designers, creators, and architects are “in the creative flow.” Chaos has been trying to eliminate as much of that, well, creative chaos, as possible by building an end-to-end design and visualization ecosystem that not only takes users from early design to final presentation, but does so by connecting that ecosystem more tightly.

Chaos has announced its latest step in that direction by integrating Veras, its AI-powered visualization tool, into Enscape, V-Ray, and Corona. As a result, AI ideation becomes more accessible at every stage of the architectural design and vis process, with deeper integration across the products used by architects and visualization artists.

“Tool hopping and disconnected workflows are burdens to anyone tasked with complex projects,” said Petr Mitev, VP of product development at Chaos. “Today, our ecosystem begins feeling a whole lot smoother, letting users tap a shared infrastructure, cross-product features, and purpose-built AI. This will speed up any workflow, without sacrificing quality or control.”

Veras supports visualization workflows by turning sketches, 2D images, and 3D models into presentation-ready images and animations, enabling users to explore ideas, styles, and moods early in the process, without breaking design intent. Chaos said this capability spans all of Chaos’ core renderers and across every licensing tier, no matter if users are working in SketchUp, Rhino, Archicad, Vectorworks, 3ds Max, or Revit.

Moreover, Chaos is simplifying the ecosystem by unifying licensing, installation, new features, and more. All products can now be downloaded using a single installer, allowing creators using multiple products to begin incorporating them all at once. A new hybrid-licensing system adapts to how users work, enabling them to now scale up or down depending on what they actually need in terms of cloud rendering and AI services.

Product updates

Coinciding with this launch, Chaos also announced various updates for several of its products.

Enscape

Envision Live Link—Moving scenes from Enscape to Enscape Envision lets users jump into advanced animations without a complex export-import process by initiating a single click.

2,500+ new Chaos Cosmos assets—Plus, a new AI-driven search tool using natural language has been added (also in V-Ray and Corona).

Chaos Cloud video collaboration tools—Connects the design, presentation, and feedback process into a visually robust loop.

V-Ray and Corona

1,000+ new Chaos Cosmos assets

Vantage accessible in the V-Ray viewport

Corona-only updates

Today also marks the launch of Corona 15, which brings AI ideation, photoreal rendering, and cinematic animation into one intuitive environment.

Enhanced material detail—With new Glints layer simulating the sparkle of small, angled surfaces, replicating metallic flakes in car paint, sand, and snow is now easier.

Improved Gaussian Splats blending

Faster animation parsing—Using a smarter rendering workflow that no longer reprocesses the entire scene for every frame, animation render times can be reduced in 3ds Max.