This page provides information on installing V-Ray for 3ds Max.
Overview
This guide is to serve as a reference for installing V-Ray for 3ds Max and 3ds Max Design.
A complete installation of V-Ray for 3ds Max consists of V-Ray, V-Ray GPU, V-Ray Standalone, V-Ray DR Spawner, V-Ray license server, V-Ray tools, V-Ray SDK, V-Ray Chaos Cloud Client.
If you are a trial user, please refer to the Trial installation of V-Ray for 3ds Max, as the process differs from the one showed on this page.
Installing V-Ray for 3ds Max
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.
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.
2. You will be presented with the V-Ray licensing agreement. Please take a moment to review the agreement. Check the I accept the Agreement checkbox and click Install to proceed with standard installation.
If you need to customize your V-Ray installation, press the Advanced button.
3. If you choose the Local Licensing Option, you are presented with the License Server installation.
Chaos License Server Options
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.
4. 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.
5. Once V-Ray installation has finished, the Material Library installation starts. Note that the download process might take awhile. If you abort the download, it will affect only the Material Library download and not the whole V-Ray installation. For more information on the Material Library installation process, see the V-Ray Asset Browser page.
6. Now V-Ray 5 is ready to render!
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.
The License Server will skip its installation process for two reasons:
- If it detects a previous installation of the Online License Server on your machine.
- If you choose the option Remote V-Ray license server on the network.
For full information on the License Server options and settings, see the Licensing section of the documentation.