This page provides information on the Chaos Improvement Program for V-Ray Standalone.
Overview
The Chaos Improvement Program is based on telemetry. It allows Chaos to track general Product usage statistics and to automatically collect crash information. The type of information collected includes what Product functionality and/or parameter values people use most often, which helps Chaos to optimize and improve Product's performance.
No scenes, assets, or materials are collected.
The collected data is sent when V-Ray Standalone exits, and is stored locally in text files. For Windows the files can be found in the folder C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Chaos\telemetry. For Linux and macOS the files can be found in the home directory of the current user: ${HOME}/.Chaos/telemetry/. The collected data is viewable with a text editor.
Enable Chaos Telemetry
Once V-Ray Standalone is successfully installed, you are invited to participate in the Chaos Improvement Program. By choosing to participate you can contribute to the improvement decisions for the future versions of V-Ray.
Your participation involves sharing anonymized telemetry, with the option to enable personalized telemetry too.
With Anonymized Telemetry, you share data on frequently used features and parameter values, which is not personally identifiable and is used mainly for aggregated statistics.
With Personalized Telemetry, you share the same data as with Anonymized Telemetry, along with information tied to your individual user license, which therefore contains personally identifiable information, and enables Chaos to further optimize the product for better personal use.
You can change your choice at any time.
Chaos Telemetry
The Chaos Telemetry settings can be changed at any time by re-installing V-Ray Standalone and changing your choice at the end screen of the installer.
In addition, anonymized telemetry usage can be enabled or disabled with the VRAY_SEND_ANONYMIZED_FEEDBACK and the personalized telemetry usage can be enabled or disabled with the VRAY_SEND_PERSONALIZED_FEEDBACK environment variables.