

It can be executed using the vray bash script which is normally installed in the Applications/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/Mayannnn /vray/VRay.app/Contents/MacOS/ directory, for example: V-Ray Standalone is installed as part of the V-Ray for Maya installation.

Attempting to load the V-Ray standalone library into Maya will cause Maya to crash immediately. Note: do not attempt to make V-Ray for Maya load the libvray.dylib library with the same name for the standalone version of V-Ray, which is located in the / Applications/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/Mayannnn /vray/VRay.app/Contents/libs folder. The plugin will attempt to load a shared library, libvray.dylib, which is installed in the /Applications/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/Mayannnn /vray/lib folder and should be readily accessible for Maya to load without modifying the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH variable. The file is located by default in the /Applications/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/Mayannnn /vray/VRay.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins directory. If you do not see the vrayformaya.bundle entry, you will need to browse explicitly for it. Scroll down to the vrayformaya.bundle plugin entry Ĭheck the Loaded and Auto-load options to load V-Ray for Maya. Open the Plugin Manager from the Window > Settings/Preferences > Plug-in Manager menu. To do that, open the application from C:\Program Files\Chaos Group\V-Ray\Maya nnnn for 圆4\maya_vray\bin\vray Before you can use distributed rendering, you have to start the V-Ray Standalone application in render server mode on the machines that you wish to use. You can use V-Ray Standalone render servers for distributed rendering, where a single frame is simultaneously calculated across many machines. Use the -help option to see a list of the available command line options. Once started, you will need to start a command-line rendering by first calling the vray command and then adding parameters to it: It can be started from C:\Program Files\Chaos Group\V-Ray\Maya nnnn for 圆4\maya_vray\bin\vray. V-Ray Standalone can now be used as a render server for Distributed Rendering, Network Rendering and rendering with IPR. You can register the V-Ray Standalone application as a Windows service so that it runs automatically on Windows boot from C:\Program Files\Chaos Group\V-Ray\Maya nnnn for 圆4\maya_vray\bin\vraymayaspawnernnnn.

Register V-Ray Render Server as a Service Scroll down to the vrayformaya.mll plugin entry.Ĭheck the Loaded and Auto-load options to load V-Ray for Maya.

Open the Plugin Manager from the Windows > Settings/Preferences > Plug-in Manager menu. Once you have installed V-Ray for Maya, you can load the plugin from the Maya plugin Manager:
