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  1. Start Maya.

  2. Open the Plugin Manager from the Windows > Settings/Preferences > Plug-in Manager menu.

  3. Scroll down to the vrayformaya.mll plugin entry.

  4. Check the Loaded and Auto-load options to load V-Ray for Maya.

  5. Click Close.

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You can register the V-Ray Standalone application as a Windows service so that it runs automatically on Windows boot from the

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Windows Start > All Programs >
V-Ray for Maya 20xx folder > folder > Register V-Ray render server as a service. V-Ray Standalone can now be used as a render server for Distributed Rendering, Network Rendering and rendering with IPR.

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V-Ray Standalone is installed as part of the V-Ray for Maya installation. It can be started from Windows Start > All Programs > Chaos Group > V-Ray Standalone for x64

Once started, you will need to start a command-line rendering by first calling the vray command and then adding parameters to it:

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You can use V-Ray Standalone render servers for distributed rendering, where a single frame is simultaneously calculated across many machines. Before you can use distributed rendering, you have to start the V-Ray Standalone application in render server mode on the machines that you wish to use. To do that, open the application from  Windows Start > All Programs > V-Ray for Maya 20xx folder > Launch folder > Launch V-Ray render server


macOS

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Loading the V-Ray for Maya Plugin 

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  1. Start Maya

  2. Open the Plugin Manager from the Window > Settings/Preferences > Plug-in Manager menu.

  3. Scroll down to the vrayformaya.bundle plugin entry;

  4. Check the Loaded and Auto-load options to load V-Ray for Maya.

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  1. Start Maya;

  2. Open the Plugin Manager from the Windows > Settings and Preferences > Plugin manager menu.

  3. Scroll down to the vrayformaya plugin entry;

  4. Check the Loaded and Auto-load options to load V-Ray for Maya.

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