This page provides information on installing V-Ray for SketchUp.


Overview

This guide is to serve as a reference for the installation of V-Ray for SketchUp. 


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

  • V-Ray

  • V-Ray Online License Server

  • V-Ray Swarm
  • Chaos Cloud Client


If you are a trial user, please refer to the Trial installation, as the process differs from the one showed on this page.




Installation Steps

To start the installation, double-click the installation file.

1. Please take a moment to read the license agreement first. Click I Agree to continue.




2. In this screen you can select for which SketchUp version to install V-Ray. Selecting more than one version at once is also available.

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



Additional Components

In this step, you can opt to install the License Server and V-Ray Swarm. Click the Continue button to proceed with the installation. Check the Help us improve V-Ray for Rhino to help with software improvement. For more information on statistics data collection, visit the Chaos Telemetry page.


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Licensing

In this step, specify whether the V-Ray license server runs locally or on another machine.

If you select the Remote option, you have to fill in the IP address of your V-Ray license server in the field Primary License Server. Please leave port 30304 unchanged. An Alternate License Server is used when the primary one does not respond.



3. The installer first checks for running applications and prompts you to stop them, if there are such. Then it automatically uninstalls all old versions. 



4. Your installation is completed. Check the Open the release notes file option to open the release notes file after the installation.


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Check Your License

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




The License Server skips 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.


Footnotes



  • Starting with V-Ray 6, update 1 Chaos Cloud is always installed together with V-Ray as it is an integral part of the product.