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This page provides information on obtaining access to the V-Ray Free Trial for Chaos products.

 

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Overview


This guide serves as a reference for enabling the Free Trial provided by Chaos. Note that you cannot download a free trial, if there is already a commercial license installed on your machine. To run a free trial, you will need to:

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  • Create and activate a Chaos account
  • Download a V-Ray Product Trial
  • Sign into the License Server

 

 

Access the Free Trial

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Products


 

Go to https://www.chaos.com

and click Try in the upper right corner.

 

 

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On the Free Trial page, select

/free-trial and click on Start your trial.

 

 

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This takes you to the Chaos login page.

 If you already have an account, you just need to sign in with your credentials.

 

 

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If you do not have an account, click Create account, fill in your Email and create a Username and Password. Then click Continue.

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The following screen appears. Activate your account with the provided activation link from your email.

 

 

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The activation button from the email takes you to the page below where you fill in your First and Last name, Country or region and your Company name (optional). 

 

 

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Your account is ready to use. Click Sign in and access with your credentials.

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You are then prompted to Sign in. If you don't have a Chaos account, click on Create account to create and activate a new account.

 

Downloading a V-Ray Product Trial


 

  1. After signing in, you are directed to the following screen. Select your industry and role and
click 
  1. click Continue.

 

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2. Select your primary tool of choice and your host platform and

click 

click Continue.

 

 

 

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3. Your Free Trial will be active for

the 

the next 30 days. Use

the 

the Download trial

 

button

in order

to go to

the 

the Download section. Please note that the product listed

under 

under Tool of choice

 will

will differ according to the host platform selected in the previous step.

 

 

 

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4. Select your product and the version of your host platform. Download and install the file and you are ready to go.

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If you need to try more than one product with your trial, repeat the download steps for all the products you'd like to try.

 

 

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Sign in to the License Server


Next, you have to sign in to the License Server. Open the Manage Chaos License Server

 app

app. It automatically loads the License Server in a new webpage. Alternatively,

enter 

enter 127.0.0.1:30304

 in

in a browser.

 From

From the drop-down menu

of 

of Online licensing,

 click 

click Sign in

 and

and enter your credentials. The login credentials are the same you use to log in

to 

to chaos.com. Once you enter them, your License Server and V-Ray for Maya trial will be active.

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