All Chaos Cosmos assets are free of charge and can be downloaded and used in any host platform of V-Ray 5 where Cosmos is integrated.
To ensure quality and consistency, Chaos works with selected asset Creators. Currently, the list has a few prominent vendors and will expand with time.
Not for now. The purpose of Chaos Cosmos is to deliver high-quality render-ready assets to V-Ray users and not a tool for internal organization.
Cosmos assets are in a specific Chaos format (.vrmesh file). On import, they are converted to V-Ray proxies with the appropriate materials associated.
In addition, Cosmos assets contain different LODs (or representations), suitable for display in different contexts. Each Cosmos integration uses these LODs to present the best user experience to their users. For example:
- the lowest asset LOD will be used in the Host app view ports (of Revit 3D, SketchUp)
- higher asset LOD will be used in Chaos Vision
- the highest LOD will be used for final rendering in V-Ray.