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title: "Viewport Bar"
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This page provides information about the Viewport bar in Chaos Vantage.
## **Overview**
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The Viewport bar in Vantage contains camera settings such as pick focus, grid overlay, auto exposure and compensation, etc., as well as render settings such as viewing modes, quality presets, denoiser settings, options for display corrections and navigation, and many more. The Vantage bar is located right under the top toolbar and above the viewport.
## **Viewport Bar Buttons**
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| **Button** | **Description** |
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| **Focus Point** |  | **Pick Focus Point** – Allows you to select the focus point. (Shortcut: *T*) |
| **Composition Overlay** |  | **Grid Overlay** – Enables composition guides overlay. The arrow on the right opens the *Composition guides settings* dialog where you can adjust the color and width of the composition guides. *Find more information at **[Composition Guides Overlay Dialog](https://docs-chaos.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LAV/pages/125078758)**.* |
| **Exposure** |  | **Toggle auto-exposure** – Enables/disables automatic calculation of exposure. When enabled, ignores set camera exposure. Transition time between exposure can be set in Edit > Preferences > Interaction > Auto exposure time. The arrow on the right opens the *Exposure settings* dialog where you can set the auto-exposure max range value. |
|  | **Exposure bias** – Adjusts the Exposure bias value. Either use the up and down arrows or type the new value within the field. |
| **View Modes** |  | **Specifies the viewport view mode** – Opens a dropdown of view modes and allows you to select one. The available view modes are:
- **Beauty **– Previews the complete render.
- **Atmosphere **– Previews the atmospheric effects Simple fog 1, Simple fog 2 and Scattered fog.
- **Background **– Previews the image background.
- **Diffuse Filter **– Previews the pure diffuse surface color.
- **Global Illumination **– Previews the diffuse surface global illumination.
- **Lighting **– Previews the diffuse direct surface lighting.
- **Reflection **– Previews the reflections on the surface.
- **Refraction **– Previews the refractions on the surface.
- **Specular **– Previews the surface specular highlights.
- **Self-Illumination **– Previews the self-illumination of surfaces.
- **Bumped Normals **– Previews the normals generated by bump maps, in screen space.
- **Z-Depth **– Previews the z-depth of the scene.
- **Alpha **– Shows a black and white mask where all objects in the scene are white while the background is black.
- **Material Mask **– Previews the randomly assigned material IDs at initial scene load.
- **Object Mask **– Previews the randomly assigned object IDs at initial scene load.
- **Selection Mask** – Generates a black and white mask where the selected objects are in white, while everything else is black. The mask is used in post production by copying it (Ctrl+C) and then pasting it (Ctrl+V) in a post-processing application such as Photoshop.
> ⚠️ View modes except for **Beauty **render with a disabled Denoiser regardless of setting. |
| **Color Corrections** |  | **Toggle Color Corrections** – Enables color correction post processes. |
| **Render** |  | **Pause Rendering** – Pauses the rendering in the viewport. (Shortcut: *Pause*) |
|  | **Resume Rendering **– Resumes the rendering in the viewport. (Shortcut: *Pause*) |
|  | **Sets the quality of the render** –** **Available options are: *Low, Medium, High, Ultra,* and *Custom*. The presets can be modified by changing the *render_quality_presets.json *file located in "*%AppData%\Chaos\Vantage". *Note that for versions prior to Vantage 2.5, the location is *"%AppData%\Chaos Group\Vantage"*. |
|  | **Resolution **– Sets the resolution of the render. Available options are: *25% of the current camera resolution*, *50% of the current camera resolution*, *current camera resolution*, *25% of the viewport resolution keeping current camera aspect ratio*, *50% of the viewport resolution keeping current camera aspect ratio*, and *viewport resolution keeping current camera aspect ratio*. |
| **Denoiser** |  | **Toggle denoiser** – Turns the denoiser on and off. |
|  | **Enables NVIDIA upscaling denoiser **–** **Switches the render core to render at half the resolution and upscales the result to match the required resolution. Available only when Primary denoiser in **Edit > Preferences > Render defaults** is set to NVIDIA OptiX AI and driver version is 535 or newer. |
|  | **DLSS options **– Sets the quality of NVIDIA DLSS denoiser and upscaler. Available only when Primary denoiser in **Edit > Preferences > Render defaults** is set to **DLSS Ray Reconstruction **and driver version is 537.13 or newer.
- **Performance (4X)** – Switches the render core to render at a quarter of the resolution and upscales the result to match the required resolution and performs spatial and temporal anti-aliasing.
- **Balanced (3X)** – Switches the render core to render at a 1/3 of the resolution and upscales the result to match the required resolution and performs spatial and temporal anti-aliasing. Available only when [Secondary denoiser](https://docs-chaos.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LAV/pages/124621189) is set to **Same as Primary**.
- **Quality (2.25X) **– Switches the render core to render at a relatively half of the resolution and upscales the result to match the required resolution and performs spatial and temporal anti-aliasing. Available only when [Secondary denoiser](https://docs-chaos.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LAV/pages/124621189) is set to **Same as Primary**.
- **DLLA (1X)** – Renders at full required resolution and performs spatial and temporal anti-aliasing. |
|  | **DLSS Frame Generation** – Controls the DLSS AI frame generation between regular rendered frames to boost scene performance depending settings chosen. Available options are 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, and 6x. The range 3x - 6x options are available only for NVidia RTX 50XX series.
> ⚠️ DLSS Frame Generation is supported on NVidia driver version 527 and later.
> ⚠️ DLSS Frame Generation performance boost is scene dependent and may not match the chosen setting. |
|  | **Adjusts the Denoiser **– 0 disables the denoiser, while 100 shows the denoised image. A mid-value shows the denoised image until it reaches enough number of samples, then it starts to blend with the raw image. Note: images with denoiser > 0 and denoiser = 0 will be different in reflections and refractions. Visible only when the denoiser type is set to **Vantage **in **[Edit ](https://docs-chaos.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LAV/pages/124621189)****> Preferences > Render Defaults**. |
| **Display** |  | **Display correction **– Opens the *Display correction settings* dialog where you can specify the display correction to use:
- **Auto **– Uses an automatic correction, depending on the current display output (sRGB or HDR10).
- **Raw **– Doesn't use display correction; instead, it uses the raw output in the linear rendering color space.
- **sRGB** – Uses sRGB display (Rec.709 primaries, sRGB transfer function).
- **HDR (Rec.2100-PQ) **– Uses HDR10 display (Rec.2100/Rec.2020 primaries, PQ transfer function).
- **OpenColorIO **– Uses OCIO display correction.
**Input color space** – Specifies the input color space for the display correction from the OCIO configuration. It should match the current scene's rendering color space (linear-sRGB or ACEScg). Available when OpenColorIO display correction is selected.
**Display **– Specifies the display to use from the OCIO configuration. Available when **OpenColorIO **display correction is selected.
**View **– Specifies the display view to use from the OCIO configuration. Available when **OpenColorIO **display correction is selected.
**Look **– Specifies an optional look override from the OCIO configuration. Available when **OpenColorIO **display correction is selected. |
|  | **Toggle HDR Display **– Turns HDR display on and off. Available only for monitors that support HDR. |
| **Navigation** |  | **Open Navigation settings** – Opens the *Navigation *dialog that contains settings for free look, collision, navigation around the cursor, and mouse speed. |
|  | **Free look** – Enters Free look mode. (Shortcut: *`*) *See the **[Freelook section](https://youtu.be/fPffEB3tIps?t=76)** of the Navigation video.* |
|  | **Collision **– Enters Collision mode. It allows the camera to collide into objects instead of going through them. Works only in **Free look** mode. (Shortcut:* C*)* See the **[Collision section](https://youtu.be/fPffEB3tIps?t=127)** of the Navigation video.*
**Eye height** – Sets the eye height for the camera in meters when in **Free look** mode and **Collision **mode is enabled. Visible only when **Collision** mode is enabled. *See the **[Eye Height section](https://youtu.be/fPffEB3tIps?t=137)** of the Navigation video.*
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– Opens advanced collision settings. Visible only when **Collision** mode is enabled.
**Step height ratio** – Adjusts sensitivity when climbing steps or obstacles. Higher values allow stepping on higher surfaces.
**Height tolerance** – Specifies the height up to which no collision is detected. For example, if you have small rocks or grass below that value, they are ignored and the camera does not bounce up and down.
**Gravity **– Specifies the acceleration applied on the camera when collision is enabled. |
|  | **Navigate around cursor ray hit** – Orbits around the world position under the mouse cursor. *See the **[Center of rotation section](https://youtu.be/fPffEB3tIps?t=39)** of the Navigation video.* |
|  | **Navigate around target** – Orbits around the target. |
|  | **Navigates around selection** – Orbits around the selected object(s). |
|  | **Increases the mouse precision for navigation **– Useful for fine camera adjustments.
**Move speed** – Specifies the speed at which the camera moves. The value is in meters per second. *See the **[Move Speed section](https://youtu.be/fPffEB3tIps?t=108)** of the Navigation video.* |
| **View Filters** |  | **Opens View filters** – Opens the *View filter* dialog where you can control the visibility of the gizmos. Available when the Select, Move, Rotate, Scale, or Move Pivot tools are enabled.
- **Light Gizmos** – When enabled, draws a gizmo for lights in the scene. (Shortcut: *G*)
- **Decal Gizmos** – When enabled, draws a gizmo for decals in the scene.
- **Camera Gizmos** – When enabled, draws a gizmo for cameras in the scene.
- **Camera Path** – When enabled, draws the path that the camera will take in animation.
- **World Axis** – When enabled, draws a world axis gizmo in the lower left corner of the viewport. The world axis gizmo indicates the world axis alignment in the scene. It updates while navigating in the scene and switching cameras. |