Open a Command Prompt. Type out: the location of the installer that you just downloaded-unpackInstall=the location where you wish to unpack. Alternatively, you can drag and drop the installer and a target folder for unpacking into the Command Prompt to insert their directories. Press Enter to run the command. As an example, you can create a new folder called vray_builds to hold all portable V-Ray builds. Then, you can make other sub-folders and name them according to the V-Ray build version, for example vray_60100_c4dr26 . It should look something like this:
4. Paste it to the Maxon plugins folder. The default location is C:\Program Files\Maxon Cinema 4D Rxx\plugins , where xxis the Cinema 4D version.
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The GPU device select tool is not located in the default plugins location, but instead it is found under C:/Program Files/ Maxon Cinema 4D Rxx\plugins\V-Ray\res\libs\win64
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Download the V-Ray installer .dmg file and double-click to mount it. By default, it mounts to /Volumes.
Open a Terminal and type out /path/to/run_installer-unpackInstall=</unpack/target/location>. Press Enter to run the command. As an example, you can create a new folder called vray_builds in your root directory to hold all portable V-Ray builds. Then, you can make other sub-folders and name them according to the V-Ray build version, for example vray_60100_c4dr26. An example unpacking command should look like this:
4. Paste it to the Maxon plugins folder. The default location is /Applications/Maxon Cinema 4D RXX/plugins , where xx is the Cinema 4D version.
NOTE: the GPU device selection tool is not found under the default plugins location, instead it can be found under /Applications/Maxon Cinema 4D R26/plugins/V-Ray/res/libs/win64
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The /vray_builds/ directory is just an example, the Portable installation can be unpacked anywhere.
