The V-Ray installer will automatically remove any previous installations. This will allow you to seamlessly upgrade from previous versions. If you experience problems you can manually uninstall the previous versions to perform a clean install. For more information please refer to the Uninstall V-Ray page.
Operating system
Maya Version
Installer Name
Windows 64-bit
Maya 2018
vray_adv_51020_maya2018_x64
Windows 64-bit
Maya 2019
vray_adv_51020_maya2019_x64
Windows 64-bit
Maya 2020
vray_adv_51020_maya2020_x64
Windows 64-bit
Maya 2022
vray_adv_51020_maya2022_x64
Before running the installation, make sure your Windows account has administrative privileges.
Run the installer.
1. Upon the start of the installation, Windows may ask you for permission to run the installer with administrator privileges. Please confirm.
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2. You will be presented with the V-Ray licensing agreement. Please take a moment to review the agreement. Check the I acceptthe Agreement checkbox and click Install to proceed with standard installation.
If you need to customize your V-Ray installation, press the Advanced button.
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V-Ray type
The 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 for Distributed or Network Rendering, to run IPR render server, use V-Ray SDK, and have V-Ray license server on this machine. Standalone only – This installation 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.
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Directories
Here you can specify the installation paths. Please check if the default folders are correct.
Download V-Ray material library – When this option is enabled, at the end of the V-Ray installation you also download the latest version of V-Ray Material library. For more information about V-Ray material library, see the V-Ray Material Library Browser page.
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 Group Telemetry page.
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Licensing
In 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 AlternateLicenseServer 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.
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Chaos License Server Options
4. At this step you can choose the license server directory.
Migrate data during installation – When enabled, transfers all of your settings made with older versions of the License Server, such as enabled dongle subsystem, proxy settings, etc. Disabling this option will install License Server with all settings at their defaults and any custom settings from the previous installation will be lost.
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.
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5. After you click the Install button, the installer will proceed to uninstall any previous 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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6. Now V-Ray 5 is ready to render!
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macOS
The V-Ray installer will automatically remove any previous installations. This will allow you to seamlessly upgrade from previous versions. If you experience problems you can manually uninstall the previous versions to perform a clean install. For more information please refer to the Uninstall V-Ray page.
Operating system
Maya Version
Installer Name
macOS 64-bit
Maya 2018
vray_adv_51020_maya2018_mavericks_x64
macOS 64-bit
Maya 2019
vray_adv_51020_maya2019_mavericks_x64
macOS 64-bit
Maya 2020
vray_adv_51020_maya2020_mavericks_x64
macOS 64-bit
Maya 2022
vray_adv_51020_maya2022_mavericks_x64
Before running the installation, make sure your macOS account has administrative privileges.
Run the installer.
1. Upon the start of the installation, macOS may ask you for permission to run the installer with administrator privileges. Please confirm.
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2. You will be presented with the V-Ray licensing agreement. Please take a moment to review the agreement. Check the I acceptthe Agreement checkbox and click Install to proceed with standard installation.
If you need to customize your V-Ray installation, press the Advanced button.
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V-Ray type
The 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.
Here you can specify the installation paths. Please check if the default folders are correct.
Download V-Ray material library – When this option is enabled, at the end of the V-Ray installation you also download the latest version of V-Ray Material library. For more information about V-Ray material library, see the V-Ray Material Library Browser page.
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 Group Telemetry page.
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Licensing
In 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 AlternateLicenseServer 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.
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4. At this step you can choose the license server directory.
Migrate data during installation – When enabled, transfers all of your settings made with older versions of the License Server, such as enabled dongle subsystem, proxy settings, etc. Disabling this option will install License Server with all settings at their defaults and any custom settings from the previous installation will be lost.
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.
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Linux
Linux
1. Unpack the contents of the installation archive to a temporary folder (called vray_install_dir below);
2. Open a console and navigate to that folder;
3. Make sure you have root permissions or use the suor the sudocommand and run the installation file in the directory for the respective Maya version:
Operating system
Maya version
Installer name
Linux 64-bit
Maya 2018
vray_adv_51020_maya2018_centos6
Linux 64-bit
Maya 2019
vray_adv_51020_maya2019_centos7
Linux 64-bit
Maya 2020
vray_adv_51020_maya2020_centos7
Linux 64-bit
Maya 2022
vray_adv_51020_maya2022_centos7
4. 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.
5. 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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6. You will be presented with the V-Ray licensing agreement. Please take a moment to review the agreement. Check the I acceptthe Agreement checkbox and click Install to proceed with standard installation.
If you need to customize your V-Ray installation, press the Advanced button.
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V-Ray type
The 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 VNS 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.
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Directories
Here you can specify the installation paths. Please check if the default folders are correct.
Download V-Ray material library – When this option is enabled, at the end of the V-Ray installation you also download the latest version of V-Ray Material library. For more information about V-Ray material library, see the V-Ray Material Library Browser page.
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.
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The V-Ray Material library directory is reset to the default location for each installation process.
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Licensing
In 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 AlternateLicenseServer is used when the primary one does not respond.
7. If you choose the Local Licensing Option, you are presented with the License Server installation.
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At this step you can choose the license server directory.
Migrate data during installation – When enabled, transfers all of your settings made with older versions of the License Server, such as enabled dongle subsystem, proxy settings, etc. Disabling this option will install License Server with all settings at their defaults and any custom settings from the previous installation will be lost.
8. After you click the Continue button, the installer will proceed to uninstall any previous versions and install V-Ray on your machine.
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9. Now V-Ray 5 is ready to render!
Some GUI Distributions of Linux may be incompatible with the GUI of the installer. In that case run the installation with -gui=0attribute.
