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Overview

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

You can download the latest official version of V-Ray from http://www.chaosgroup.com with the account supplied to you by Chaos Group or your reseller.

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

  • V-Ray

  • V-Ray Online License Server

  • V-Ray Swarm
  • Chaos Cloud Client app


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Installation Steps

To install V-Ray make sure your Windows account has administrative privileges and double-click the installation file.

1.You will be presented with the license agreement. Please take a moment to read it, Click I Agree to continue.

 

2. Next, you can select for which Rhinoceros version to install V-Ray. The installer for Rhinoceros 6 automatically will add V-Ray toolbar and components in Grasshopper. Same applies for Rhinoceros 5, if Grasshopper is already installed.

Click the Install button to proceed with standard installation. If you need to customize your V-Ray installation, press the Advanced button. The Advanced installation lets you choose whether to install the License Server, V-Ray Swarm and Chaos Cloud client and to specify the License server machine.

 

 

Click here to see the Advanced installation options...

Additional Components

In this step you can opt to install the License Server, V-Ray Swarm, and Chaos Cloud client. Press the Continue button to proceed with the installation.

 

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 Alternate License Server is used when the primary one does not respond.

 

 



3. The installer will first check for running applications and will prompt you to stop them, if there are such. Then it will automatically uninstall all old versions.

4. Your installation is completed. On the last screen resides the usage statistics collection option. For more information on statistics data collection, visit the Chaos Group Telemetry page. Also, you can check the Open the release notes file option to open the release notes file after the installation.

 

 

Check Your License

Once the installation of the License Server is done, you are directed to the License Server local host (127.0.0.1:30304) in order to sign in and activate it.