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This page provides information on installing V-Ray for SketchUp.

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Overview

This guide is to serve as a reference for the installation of V-Ray for SketchUp.

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A complete installation of V-Ray for SketchUp consists of:

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  • V-Ray

  • V-Ray Online License Server

  • V-Ray Swarm
  • Chaos Cloud Client


If you are a trial user, please refer to the Trial installation, as the process differs from the one showed on this page.

 


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Installation Steps

To start the installation, double-click the installation file.

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Installation Steps

 

 

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 are presented with the V-Ray licensing agreement

. Please take a moment to

review

read the license agreement first.

Check the 

Click I

AGREE button

Agree to

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continue.

 

 

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2. In

3. In

this screen you can select for which SketchUp version to install V-Ray.

You can choose

Selecting more than one

versions

version at once

. Click the Install

is also available.

Click the Install button to proceed with standard installation.

If you need to customize your V-Ray installation, use the Advanced option. The Advanced installation lets you choose whether to install the License Server or V-Ray Swarm and allows you to specify the License server machine.


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press the Advanced button.

 

 

 
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Additional Components

In this step, you can opt to install the License Server

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and V-Ray Swarm

, and Chaos Cloud client

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Press

Click the Continue button to proceed with the installation. Check the Help us improve V-Ray for Rhino to help with software improvement.

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For more information on statistics data collection, visit the Chaos Telemetry page.


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Licensing

In this step,

you can

specify whether the V-Ray license server

will run

runs locally or on another machine.

If you select the

option 

Remote option, you

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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. The installer first checks for running applications and prompts you to stop them, if there are such. Then it automatically uninstalls all old versions. 

 

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4. Your installation is completed.

On the last screen resides the usage statistics collection option. For more information on the Chaos Group Telemetry, follow the link. Also, you can check the

Check the Open the release notes file option to open the release notes file after the installation.

 


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To install V-Ray double click on the installation package to mount the .dmg file and then double click on the .app file to run the installation. You may be asked to provide administrative privileges - do that so that the installation can commence.



Check Your License

Once the installation of the License Server is done, you are directed to the License Server localhost (127.0.0.1:30304) in order to sign in and activate it.


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1. First, you will see the Welcome screen. Click Next to continue.

2. You will be presented with the license agreement. Please take a moment to review it, Click I Agree to continue.

 

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3. Next, you can select the installation type. The installer should detect the root folder automatically. Please make sure that the destination is correct. You can select more than one SketchUp version to proceed with the V-Ray installation. If a particular SketchUp version is installed but grayed out, make sure to run it at least once, and then restart the V-Ray installation process.

In this step you can opt to install the License Server, V-Ray Swarm, and Chaos Cloud client. You can configure them from the Configure buttons on the right.

 

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4. This step shows the installation process, if you decide to install and configure the License Server. The connection to the V-Ray license server by default is Local V-Ray license server on this machine.

 

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5. If you choose the 
  • If it detects a previous installation of the Online License Server on your machine.
  • If you choose the option
  • Remote V-Ray license server on the network
 option, you will be prompted to fill in the host address and port information of the server of your choice. When ready, you can use the Back button to return to the previous window where you can configure the installation of V-Ray Swarm and Chaos Cloud client, or you can proceed with the installation and press Install Now.

 

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6. This step shows the installation process, if you decide to install and configure V-Ray Swarm. When ready, press the Back button to return to the previous window where you can configure the installation of Chaos Cloud client, or proceed with the installation and press Install Now.

 

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7. This step shows the installation process, if you decide to install and configure Chaos Cloud. When ready, press the Back button to return to the previous window and proceed with the installation process. For more information about the Chaos Cloud rendering service, see Chaos Cloud documentation.

 

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8. Your installation is completed. On the last screen resides the usage statistics collection option. For more information on the Chaos Group Telemetry, follow the link. Also, you can check the Open the release notes file option to open the release notes file after the installation.

 

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The License Server skips its installation process for two reasons:

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If installing V-Ray on a macOS Catalina (10.15), right-click the installer and press Open.

For full information on the License Server options and settings, see the Licensing section of the documentation.


Footnotes



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  • Starting with V-Ray 6, update 1 Chaos Cloud is always installed together with V-Ray as it is an integral part of the product.