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This page provides information on installing To run V-Ray for Maya.
Overview
This guide is to serve as a reference for installation of V-Ray 5.0 for Maya. Please refer to the Glossary section for specific terms used in this document.
If you experience any problems, please check the Troubleshooting section.
A complete installation of V-Ray 5.0 for Maya consists of:
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In order to complete a full installation of V-Ray 5.0 for Maya you need to:
Install the License Server or connect to one on your network
Install V-Ray for Maya
Download V-Ray
You can download the latest official version of V-Ray from http://www.chaosgroup.com with the account supplied to you by Chaos Group or your reseller.
If you are a trial user, please refer to the Trial installation of V-Ray for Maya.
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Make sure you use the latest version of V-Ray and the License Server. |
Installing V-Ray for Maya
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Before running the installation, make sure your Windows account has administrative privileges.
Run the installer.
1. Upon the start of the installation, Windows may ask you for permission to run the installer with administrator privileges. Please confirm.
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2. You will be presented with the V-Ray licensing agreement. Please take a moment to review the agreement. Check the I accept the Agreement checkbox and click Install to proceed with standard installation.
If you need to customize your V-Ray installation, press the Advanced button.
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V-Ray typeThe available installation types are: Full – This is a full installation and includes all components as described in the “Installation overview” section. It will allow you to use V-Ray in Maya do Distributed or Network Rendering, run IPR render server, use V-Ray SDK, and have V-Ray license server on this machine.
Directories & FeedbackHere you can specify the installation paths. Please check if the default folders are correct. Help make V-Ray even better – Participate in the improvement decisions for future version of V-Ray. No intelligence property is violated when agreeing to participate in the feedback program. We do not gather scenes, assets, materials, etc. What we receive is user preferences on just a few key render settings and the resulting render times. The point of this feature is to improve V-Ray's performance and the user experience. This preference can be changed at any time later on from the V-Ray Render Settings > Settings > About V-Ray > Feedback program settings. For more information, see the Chaos Group Telemetry page.
LicensingIn this step, you can specify whether the V-Ray license server will run locally or on another machine. If you select the option Remote you will have to fill in the IP address of your V-Ray license server in the field Primary License Server. Please leave the port 30304 unchanged. An Alternate License Server is used when the primary one does not respond. |
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3. If you are installing V-Ray for the first time, you are presented with the License Server installation. Please take a moment to read the License Server Agreement and once ready, accept the agreement. You can skip the License Server installation by pressing the Skip button.
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4. Optionally, you can install the Chaos Cloud client. Please take a moment to read the Terms of Service and accept the agreement. You can skip the Chaos Cloud installation by pressing the Skip button.
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5. After you click the Install button, the installer will proceed to uninstall any previous versions and install V-Ray on your machine.
If the installer detects any applications that need to be closed, they will be listed before being able to continue. Please close them and click Continue.
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6. Now V-Ray 5 is ready to render!
Mac OS X
The V-Ray installer will automatically remove any previous installations. This will allow you to seamlessly upgrade from previous versions. If you experience problems you can manually uninstall the previous versions to perform a clean install. For more information please refer to the Uninstall V-Ray page.
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2. You will be presented with the V-Ray licensing agreement. Please take a moment to review the agreement. Check the I accept the Agreement checkbox and click Install to proceed with standard installation.
If you need to customize your V-Ray installation, press the Advanced button.
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V-Ray typeThe available installation types are: Full – This is a full installation and includes all components as described in the “Installation overview” section. It will allow you to use V-Ray in Maya do Distributed or Network Rendering, run IPR render server, use V-Ray SDK, and have V-Ray license server on this machine.
Directories & FeedbackHere you can specify the installation paths. Please check if the default folders are correct. Help make V-Ray even better – Participate in the improvement decisions for future version of V-Ray. No intelligence property is violated when agreeing to participate in the feedback program. We do not gather scenes, assets, materials, etc. What we receive is user preferences on just a few key render settings and the resulting render times. The point of this feature is to improve V-Ray's performance and the user experience. This preference can be changed at any time later on from the V-Ray Render Settings > Settings > About V-Ray > Feedback program settings. For more information, see the Chaos Group Telemetry page.
LicensingIn this step, you can specify whether the V-Ray license server will run locally or on another machine. If you select the option Remote you will have to fill in the IP address of your V-Ray license server in the field Primary License Server. Please leave the port 30304 unchanged. An Alternate License Server is used when the primary one does not respond. |
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3. If you are installing V-Ray for the first time, you are presented with the License Server installation. Please take a moment to read the License Server Agreement and once ready, accept the agreement. You can skip the License Server installation by pressing the Skip button.
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4. Optionally, you can install the Chaos Cloud client. Please take a moment to read the Terms of Service and accept the agreement. You can skip the Chaos Cloud installation by pressing the Skip button.
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5. After you click the Install button, the installer will proceed to uninstall any previous versions and install V-Ray on your machine.
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6. Now V-Ray 5 is ready to render!
Linux
1. Unpack the contents of the installation archive to a temporary folder (called vray_install_dir below);
2. Open a console and navigate to that folder;
3. Make sure you have root permissions or use the su or the sudo command and run the installation file in the directory for the respective Maya version:
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4. Follow the instructions of the installer; if you had a previous version of V-Ray for Maya, the installer will try to automatically remove it first.
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5. Upon the start of the installation, Linux may ask you for permission to run the installer with administrator privileges. Please confirm.
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The available installation types are: Full – This is a full installation and includes
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7. If you are installing V-Ray for the first time, you are presented with the License Server installation. Please take a moment to read the License Server Agreement and once ready, accept the agreement. You can skip the License Server installation by pressing the Skip button.
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8. Optionally, you can install the Chaos Cloud client. Please take a moment to read the Terms of Service and accept the agreement. You can skip the Chaos Cloud installation by pressing the Skip button.
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9. After you click the Install button, the installer will proceed to uninstall any previous versions and install V-Ray on your machine.
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10. Now V-Ray 5 is ready to render!
Some GUI Distributions of Linux may be incompatible with the GUI of the installer. In that case run the installation with -gui=0 attribute.
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Check your License
When installing the License Server, once the installation is done, you are directed to the License Server local host (http://localhost:3004) in order to sign in and activate it.
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The License Server will skip its installation process for two reasons:
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Next Step
Go to step 2 to activate your Chaos License.
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