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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 for Maya. Please refer to the Terminology section for specific terms used in this document.
If you experience any problems, please check the Troubleshooting section.
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Installing V-Ray for Maya
This section describes the installation of V-Ray for Maya using the provided installer.
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2. You will be presented with the V-Ray licensing agreement. Please take a moment to review the agreement. Once you've carefully read the End User License Agreement, you can click "I accept the Agreement" if you agree to the terms. If you need to customize your V-Ray installation, click the Advanced button.
3. If you select the Local Licensing Option, you are presented with the Chaos License Server installation. Note that if you choose Remote V-Ray license server on the network option, the License Server will skip its installation process.
Chaos License Server Options4. At this step you can choose the license server directory. Add firewall exception – Enabling this option allows the default licensing port (TCP 30304) in the firewall. If you disable it at this step, you will need to manually add firewall exceptions later.
5. After you click the Install button, the installer will proceed to stop any interfering applications such as the Unified login. Then, it will uninstall any previous V-Ray 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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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.Standalone only – An installation which includes V-Ray Standalone and IPR render server. Please choose this option if you plan to use this machine only for Distributed Rendering with V-Ray Standalone and an IPR render server. Add firewall exceptions – Automatically adds firewall exceptions so IPR for Maya and V-Ray Standalone can run uninterrupted .
DirectoriesHere 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 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.
3. If you choose the Local Licensing Option, you are presented with the License Server installation. Note that if you choose Remote V-Ray license server on the network option, the License Server will skip its installation process.
4. At this step you can choose the license server directory. Add firewall exception – Enabling this option allows the default licensing port (TCP 30304) in the firewall. If you disable it at this step, you will need to manually add firewall exceptions later.
5. After you click the Continue button, the installer will proceed to uninstall any previous versions and install V-Ray on your machine.
6. Now V-Ray is ready to render!
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Open a terminal and navigate to the location where the installation file was saved (vray_install_dir in the example below). Ensure you have permitted
Linux1. Save the installation file to a temporary folder (called vray_install_dir below); 2. Open a console and navigate to that folder; 4. Make sure you have given permission to the Installer to run as an executable. That is done with the command chmod +x. Operating system Maya version Installer name Linux 64-bit | Maya 2020 | vray_adv_61000_maya2020_centos7 | Follow the instructions of the installer.
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Linux 64-bit | Maya 2024 | vray_adv_61000_maya2024_centos7 | Some Linux GUI distributions may not be compatible with the installer's GUI. In that case, run the installation with the -gui=0 attribute.
5. 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.
6. 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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Check your License
Once the installation of the License Server is done, you are directed to the License Server local host (127.0.0.1:30304) in order to sign in and activate it.
For full information on the License Server options and settings, see the Licensing section of the documentation.
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Next Step
Go to step 2 to activate your Chaos License.
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