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Overview

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.

Note: detailed installation instructions are included in the installation PDF guide. V-Ray 3.0 for Softimage Installation Guide


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.

ProcessorIntel Pentium IV or compatible processor with SSE2 support
To use Embree you need CPU which supports SSE4.2 instruction set.
RAM4 GB RAM and 4 GB swap minimum – recommended 8 GB or more RAM, 8 GB or more swap file
Operating systemWindows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, 64 bit versions only
SoftimageSoftimage 2012 or later, 64 bit versions only
USB portRequired for hardware lock, preferably USB 2.0
TCP/IPOnly IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported.
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V-Ray 3.0 requires V-Ray License server 3.0!

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Installing the Dongle Drivers

The WIBU-KEY drivers are necessary for running the V-Ray License Server which is used to license V-Ray.

If you already have the WIBU-KEY drivers installed on the machine, you can skip this section. Otherwise follow these steps.

Note: Please make sure that you have the proper USB drivers installed on your machine.

  1. Make sure that the dongle is NOT plugged-in.

  2. Make sure your account has administrative privileges and run the installation file WkRuntime64.exe that came with the V-Ray 3.0 for Softimage installation archive

  3. Follow the instructions of the installer. You do not need to install the WIBU-KEY network server and monitor

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Installing V-Ray Standalone

 

To install the V-Ray Standalone make sure your Windows account has administrative privileges and double-click the installation file vraystd_adv_3xxxx_x64_xxxx that came with the V-Ray for Softimage installation.

To complete the installation follow these steps:

1. You will be presented with the V-Ray licensing agreement. Please take a moment to review the agreement. Click the “I agree” button to proceed:



2. During the next step you will see the installation folder.  You can click "Customize" to adjust some of the installation settings.

 

3. If you choose to adjust the settings you will see the screen below. The options here allow you to specify:

a. V-Ray destination  – manually specify the location where V-Ray will be installed

b. How are you going to connect to the V-Ray license server – specifies whether the V-Ray license server will run locally or on another machine. If you select “Remote V-Ray license server on the network” you will be given fields to specify the IP address of the machine on which the V-Ray License server is running. Please leave the port 30304 unchanged.

Common settings for an installation with a local license server and default paths, should look like the screenshot below:



Once you are ready click "Install Now"

4. The installer will proceed to uninstall any previous versions and install V-Ray Standalone 3.0. If the installation was successful, you will get this screen.



 

Press the "Finish" button.

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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.

 

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