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This page provides details on how to install the standalone version of V-Ray.

 

Overview


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

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

If you experience any problems, please check the Troubleshooting section. 


A complete installation of V-Ray Standalone consists of:

  • V-Ray Standalone
  • V-Ray tools
  • V-Ray Standalone SDK
  • Documentation  


In order to complete a full installation of V-Ray Standalone you need to:

  1. Install the V-Ray Online License Server. We highly suggest using the latest version available at our website
  2. Install V-Ray Standalone.

Installing V-Ray Standalone


This section walks you through the steps of installing of V-Ray Standalone for different operating systems using the provided installer.


 

 

To install V-Ray Standalone, make sure your Windows account has administrative privileges and double-click the installer to run it:

To complete the installation follow these steps:

 

1. You will be presented with the V-Ray licensing agreement. Please take a moment to review the agreement. Tick the I accept checkbox to proceed. 

 

2. During the next step you will see the installation folder.  You can click Customize to adjust some of the installation settings. 

 

 

3. If you choose to adjust the settings you will see the screen below. The options here allow you to specify: 

a. V-Ray destination – The location where V-Ray will be installed.

b. Primary/Alternate License Server(s) – Specifies whether the V-Ray license server will run locally or on another machine. You will be given fields to specify the IP address of the machine on which the V-Ray License server is running. Please leave the port 30304 unchanged.

  Common settings for an installation with a local license server and default paths, should look like the screenshot below:



Once you are ready click Install Now.

 

4. The installer will proceed to uninstall any previous versions and install V-Ray Next Standalone. If the installation was successful, you should get the following window.



Press the Finish button. 

 

To install V-Ray Standalone in Linux, do the following steps:

1. Unpack the contents of the installation archive to a temporary folder (for example vray_install_dir).

2. Open a console and navigate to the folder.

3. Make sure you have root permissions or use the su or the sudo command to run the installation file.

 

Example
$ cd vray_install_dir 
$ sudo ./vraystd_4xxxx_linux_x64


4. Follow the instructions of the installer:

4.1 You will be presented with the V-Ray licensing agreement. Please read carefully the agreement! Tick the I accept checkbox to proceed.

 

 

4.2 During the next step you will see the installation folder.  You can click Customize to adjust some of the installation settings.

 

 

4.3 f you choose to adjust the settings you will see the screen below. The options here allow you to specify: 

a. V-Ray destination – The location where V-Ray will be installed.

b. Primary/Alternate License Server(s) – Specifies whether the V-Ray license server will run locally or on another machine. You will be given fields to specify the IP address of the machine on which the V-Ray License server is running. Please leave the port 30304 unchanged.

  Common settings for an installation with a local license server and default paths, should look like the screenshot below:

 

Once you are ready click Install Now.

 

4.4 The installer will proceed to uninstall any previous versions and install V-Ray Next Standalone. If the installation was successful, you should get the following window.

 

 

 It may be necessary to log out and log in again so that some of the changes to the environment variables made by the installer can take effect.

 

To install V-Ray Standalone on Mac OS X, extract the V-Ray installation file in an appropriate folder and double click to run it.

 

1. You will be presented with the V-Ray licensing agreement. Please read carefully the agreement! Tick the I accept checkbox to proceed.



2. During the next step you will see the installation folder.  You can click Customize to adjust some of the installation settings.



3. If you choose to adjust the settings you will see the screen below. The options here allow you to specify: 

a. V-Ray destination – The location where V-Ray will be installed.

b. Primary/Alternate License Server(s) – Specifies whether the V-Ray license server will run locally or on another machine. You will be given fields to specify the IP address of the machine on which the V-Ray License server is running. Please leave the port 30304 unchanged.

  Common settings for an installation with a local license server and default paths, should look like the screenshot below:

 

Once you are ready click Install Now.

 

4. The installer will proceed to uninstall any previous versions and install V-Ray Next Standalone. If the installation was successful, you should get the following window.

 


 

It may be necessary to log out and log in again so that some of the changes to the environment variables made by the installer can take effect.