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Loading the V-Ray for Maya Plugin

Once you have installed V-Ray for Maya, you can load the plugin from the Maya plugin Manager:

1. Start Maya.

2. Open the Plugin Manager from the Windows > Settings/Preferences > Plug-in Manager menu.

3. Scroll down to the vrayformaya.mll plugin entry.

4. Check the Loaded and Auto-load options to load V-Ray for Maya.

5. Click Close.

Register V-Ray Render Server as a Service

You can register the V-Ray Standalone application as a Windows service so that it runs automatically on Windows boot from the

Running V-Ray Standalone

V-Ray Standalone is installed as part of the V-Ray for Maya installation. It can be started from Windows Start > All Programs > Chaos Group > V-Ray Standalone for x64

Once started, you will need to start a command-line rendering by first calling the vray command and then adding parameters to it:

vray -sceneFile = "[v-ray scene file]"

where [v-ray scene file] is a .vrscene file. Start it without parameters to see a list of available command line options.

Running a V-Ray Standalone Render Server

You can use V-Ray Standalone render servers for distributed rendering, where a single frame is simultaneously calculated across many machines. Before you can use distributed rendering, you have to start the V-Ray Standalone application in render server mode on the machines that you wish to use. To do that, open the application from  Windows Start > All Programs > V-Ray for Maya 20xx folder > Launch V-Ray render server

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Loading the V-Ray for Maya Plugin

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Once you have installed V-Ray for Maya, you can load the plugin from the Maya plugin Manager:

1. Start Maya.

2. Open the Plugin Manager from the Window Windows > Settings/Preferences > Plug-in Manager menu.

3. Scroll down to the vrayformaya.bundlemll plugin entry;.

4. Check the Loaded and Auto-load options to load V-Ray for Maya.

5. Click Close.

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Tabs Page title macOS If you do not see the vrayformaya.bundle entry, you will need to browse explicitly for it. The file is located by default in the /Applications/Chaos Group/V-Ray/maya20xx/vray/plug-ins/ directory. The plugin will attempt to load a shared library, libvray.dylib, which is installed in the /Applications/Chaos Group/V-Ray/maya20xx/Maya.app/Contents/macOS/ folder and should be readily accessible for Maya to load without modifying the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH variable. Note: do not attempt to make V-Ray for Maya load the libvray.dylib library with the same name

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as the standalone version of V-Ray, which is located in the /Applications/Chaos Group/V-Ray/maya20xx/vray/bin folder. Attempting to load the V-Ray standalone library into Maya will cause Maya to crash immediately.

Running V-Ray Standalone

V-Ray Standalone is installed as part of the V-Ray for Maya installation. It can be executed using the vray bash script which is normally installed in the /Applications/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/Maya20xx/VRay.app/Contents/MacOS/vray.bin directory:

/Applications/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/Maya20xx/VRay.app/Contents/MacOS/vray.bin -scenefile="[v-ray scene file]"

where [v-ray scene file] is a .vrscene file. Start it without parameters to see a list of available command line options.

Running a V-Ray Standalone Render Server

You can use V-Ray Standalone render servers for distributed rendering, where a single frame is simultaneously calculated across many machines. Before you can use distributed rendering, you have to start the V-Ray Standalone application in render server mode on the machines that you wish to use. To do that, run the following command from a Terminal window:

/Applications/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/Mayannnn/VRay.app/Contents/MacOS/vray.bin -vrayserver

where nnnn is the particular version of Maya (2022 etc).

Linux

Loading the V-Ray for Maya Plugin

Once you have installed V-Ray for Maya, you can load the plugin from the Maya plugin Manager:

1. Start Maya;

2. Open the Plugin Manager from the Windows > Settings and Preferences > Plugin manager menu.

3. Scroll down to the vrayformaya plugin entry;

4. Check the Loaded and Auto-load options to load V-Ray for Maya.

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Register V-Ray Render Server as a Service

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You can register the V-Ray Standalone application as a Windows service so that it runs automatically on Windows boot from the

V-Ray for Maya 20xx folder > Register V-Ray render server as a service. V-Ray Standalone can now be used as a render server for Distributed Rendering, Network Rendering, and rendering with IPR.

Running V-Ray Standalone

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Running a V-Ray Standalone Render Server

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