Free Trial

This page provides information on obtaining access to the V-Ray Free Trial for Chaos products.

 

Overview

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This guide serves as a reference for enabling the Free Trial provided by Chaos. Note that you cannot download a free trial, if there is already a commercial license installed on your machine. To run a free trial, you will need to:

 

 

Access the Free Trial Products

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Go to https://www.chaos.com/free-trial and click on Start your trial.

 

 

You are then prompted to Sign in. If you don't have a Chaos account, click on Create account to create and activate a new account.

 

Downloading a V-Ray Product Trial

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1. After signing in, you are directed to the following screen. Select your industry and role and click Continue.

 

 

2. Select your primary tool of choice and your host platform and click Continue. 

 

 

3. Your Free Trial will be active for the next 30 days. Use the Download trial button to go to the Download section. Please note that the product listed under Tool of choice will differ according to the host platform selected in the previous step. 

 

 

4. Select your product and the version of your host platform. Download and install the file and you are ready to go. If you need to try more than one product with your trial, repeat the download steps for all the products you'd like to try.

 

 

Sign in to the License Server

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Next, you have to sign in to the License Server. Open the Manage Chaos License Server app. It automatically loads the License Server in a new webpage. Alternatively, enter 127.0.0.1:30304 in a browser. From the drop-down menu of Online licensing, click Sign in and enter your credentials. The login credentials are the same you use to log in to chaos.com. Once you enter them, your License Server and V-Ray for Maya trial will be active.