vray: command not found (V-Ray Standalone, MacOS)

[Rob Snyder]

I'm a first time user of VRay Standalone. All commands in terminal window return "vray: command not found". Any suggestions?

[Peter.Chaushev]

Hello, Rob,

Very sorry for the late reply!

You would need to set the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to the path of V-Ray dynamic libraries - /Applications/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/V-Ray\ for\ SketchUp/extension/vrayappsdk/bin
Afterwards, you can run V-Ray Standalone by command line using the following:

/Applications/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/V-Ray\ for\ SketchUp/extension/vrayappsdk/bin/vray.bin

If you plan to use V-Ray Standalone often, you may want to save yourself some time by creating a startup script with the following content and save it in the same directory as vray.bin:

#!/bin/bash
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/Applications/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/V-Ray\ for\ SketchUp/extension/vrayappsdk/bin:DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
/Applications/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/V-Ray\ for\ SketchUp/extension/vrayappsdk/bin/vray.bin

Name it "vray" and make sure to set the executable right of the script using the command:

sudo chmod 755 vray

Then run it by using the command:

/Applications/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/V-Ray\ for\ SketchUp/extension/vrayappsdk/bin/vray

Once started, V-Ray Standalone prints descriptions for all available commands.

Kind regards,
Peter