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Loading the V-Ray for Maya Plugin

 Once you have installed V-Ray for Maya, you can load the plugin from the Maya plugin Manager:

1. Start Maya.

2. Open the Plugin Manager from the 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.

Register V-Ray Render Server as a Service

You can register the V-Ray Standalone application as a Windows service so that it runs automatically on Windows boot from C:\Program Files\Chaos Group\V-Ray\Maya nnnn for x64\maya_vray\bin\vraymayaspawnernnnn. V-Ray Standalone can now be used as a render server for Distributed Rendering, Network Rendering and rendering with IPR.

Note: nnnn is the Maya version.

Running V-Ray Standalone

V-Ray Standalone is installed as part of the V-Ray for Maya installation. It can be started from C:\Program Files\Chaos Group\V-Ray\Maya nnnn for x64\maya_vray\bin\vray. Once started, you will need to start a command-line rendering by first calling the vray command and then adding parameters to it:

vray -sceneFile = "[v-ray scene file]"

Use the -help option to see a list of the available command line options.

Running a V-Ray Standalone Render Server

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 C:\Program Files\Chaos Group\V-Ray\Maya nnnn for x64\maya_vray\bin\vray

Loading the V-Ray for Maya Plugin

Once you have installed V-Ray for Maya, you can load the plugin from the Maya plugin Manager:

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.

If you do not see the vrayformaya.bundle entry, you will need to browse explicitly for it. The file is located by default in the /Applications/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/Mayannnn/vray/VRay.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins  directory. The plugin will attempt to load a shared library, libvray.dylib, which is installed in the /Applications/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/Mayannnn/vray/lib folder and should be readily accessible for Maya to load without modifying the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH variable.

Note: do not attempt to make V-Ray for Maya load the libvray.dylib library with the same name for the standalone version of V-Ray, which is located in the /Applications/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/Mayannnn /vray/VRay.app/Contents/libs folder. Attempting to load the V-Ray standalone library into Maya will cause Maya to crash immediately.

Running V-Ray Standalone

V-Ray Standalone is installed as part of the V-Ray for Maya installation. It can be executed using the vray bash script which is normally installed in the /Applications/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/Standalone_for_maverics_x64/VRay/Contents/MacOS/ directory, for example:

/Applications/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/Standalone_for_maverics_x64/VRay/Contents/MacOS/vray.bin -sceneFile="[vray scene file]"

Use the -help option to see a list of the available command line options.

Running a V-Ray Standalone Render Server

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, run the following command from a Terminal window:

Applications/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/Mayannnn/vray/bin/vrayserver

where nnnn is the particular version of Maya (2020 etc).

Loading the V-Ray for Maya Plugin

Once you have installed V-Ray for Maya, you can load the plugin from the Maya plugin Manager:

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.

If you do not see the vrayformaya entry, you will need to browse explicitly for the V-Ray for Maya plugin, which is called vrayformaya.so and is located by default in the /usr/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/Mayannnn-x64/maya_vray directory. The plugin will attempt to load a shared library, libvray.so, which is installed in the /usr/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/Mayannnn-x64/vray/lib folder and should be readily accessible for Maya to load without modifying the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable.

NOTE: do not attempt to make V-Ray for Maya load the libvray.so library with the same name for the standalone version of V-Ray, which is located in the /usr/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/Standalone_for_centos7/lib/linux_x64 folder. Attempting to load the V-Ray standalone library into Maya will cause Maya to crash immediately.

Running V-Ray Standalone

V-Ray Standalone is installed as part of the V-Ray for Maya installation. It can be executed using the vray bash script which is normally installed in the /usr/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/Standalone_for_centos7/bin directory, for example:

$ /usr/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/Standalone_for_centos7/bin/vray -sceneFile="[v-ray scene file]"

Use the -help option to see a list of the available command line options.

Running a V-Ray Standalone Render Server

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. This is done with the vrayserver command, for example:

$ /usr/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/Mayannnn-x64/vray/bin/vrayserver