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Installing V-Ray

Installing V-Ray - V-Ray Tutorial

From the course: V-Ray 2.0 for Maya Essential Training

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Installing V-Ray

As V-Ray is a third-party plug-in renderer for Maya, and not a part of the base package, a good starting point for our course would be to quickly deal with installation of the renderer, and its license server. This is a pretty straightforward process that simply requires we follow some onscreen instructions. Of course, first of all, we need to download our V-Ray executable, our install file, so let's pull up our Web browser, and we need to go to www.chaosgroup.com. Once there, of course, we need to use our login to enter the site. Having done that, we can come to the Download section, and choose the appropriate version of V-Ray. So we want to go to the V-Ray for Maya section, and now we'll just choose the particular version of V-Ray for the version of Maya that we want to work with. In this case, we are working with Maya 2012, the 64-bit version, so we're just going to click to download that particular file. Of course, we want to save the file to disk, so we're going to click OK, and…

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