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To run V-Ray, you have to:



Overview


This guide is to serve as a reference for the installation of V-Ray for Rhino. Please refer to the Glossary section for specific terms used in this document.

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

  • V-Ray

  • V-Ray License Server

  • V-Ray Swarm
  • Chaos Cloud Client


Download V-Ray for Rhino



Installing V-Ray for Rhino gives you access to: 



Running the Installer



End User License Agreement


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

Once you've carefully read the License Agreement, click I Agree if you agree to the terms.


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Host App Version


This screen allows you to select which Rhino version to install V-Ray for. You can also select more than one version at once.

Proceed to click the Install button.

If you need to customize your V-Ray installation, click the Advanced button.


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Advanced Installation


The Advanced Installation button takes you to the Additional Components screen. Here, you can choose whether to install the License Server or V-Ray Swarm and specify the License server machine.

Check the Help us improve V-Ray for Rhino to help with software improvement. For more information on statistics data collection, visit the Chaos Telemetry page.

Click the Continue button to proceed with the installation


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Licensing


In this step, you can specify whether the V-Ray license server runs locally or on another machine.

  • If you select the Local licensing option, you need to install the License Server on your machine. See the Chaos License Quick Start Guide for a walkthrough.

  • If you select the Remote option, you 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.


V-Ray installation is successful.


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Next Step


Go to step 2 to activate your Chaos License.




Footnotes


  • 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.


 

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