This guide is to serve as a reference for installation of V-Ray 3.0 for Softimage. Please refer to the Glossary section for specific terms used in this document.
You can download the latest official version of V-Ray 3.0 from http://www.chaosgroup.com with the account supplied to you by Chaos Group or your reseller. If you experience any problems, please check the “Troubleshooting” section. If you are still having problems please contact our support team: http://www.chaosgroup.com/en/2/support.html A complete installation of V-Ray 3.0 for Softimage consists of:
V-Ray
V-Ray Standalone
V-Ray license server
V-Ray tools
V-Ray SDK
Documentation
WIBU-KEY drivers
Dongle (hardware lock)
System requirements
Please make sure that your system fulfills these requirements before installing V-Ray.
Processor
Intel Pentium IV or compatible processor with SSE2 support To use Embree you need CPU which supports SSE4.2 instruction set.
RAM
4 GB RAM and 4 GB swap minimum – recommended 8 GB or more RAM, 8 GB or more swap file
Operating system
Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, 64 bit versions only
Softimage
Softimage 2012 or later, 64 bit versions only
USB port
Required for hardware lock, preferably USB 2.0
TCP/IP
Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported.
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Dongle – encrypted physical hardware lock, very similar to a USB flash drive which contains the product licenses.
WIBU-KEY drivers – drivers for the dongle.
Render Node – machine that is doing the actual rendering.
Distributed Rendering – dividing frames to buckets and rendering them on different render nodes by using V-Ray DR spawner, V-Ray Standalone or a V-Ray RT render server.
Network Rendering – rendering whole frames on each render node, for example by submitting jobs to job managers like Backburner.
V-Ray DR spawner – a V-Ray tool used to start 3ds Max in server mode for Distributed Rendering.
V-Ray SDK – a V-Ray Software Development Kit used for creation of custom materials and geometry.