New to Vray

[l1tay2]

Hi forum,

I just purchased Vray 3.0 for Maya (Mental Ray Convert) and while I wait for the dongle to arrive, I figured I would ask if there was a good tutorial to reference to get familiar with Vray's functions and tools.

Thank you!

Les

[vlado]

There is a lot of stuff on the docs site at http://docs.chaosgroup.com/ - it might make sense to look at the tutorials sections in both the Maya and 3ds Max sections.

Best regards,
Vlado

[l1tay2]

Thank you vlado. I will start there.

[l1tay2]

One last question, I have two versions of Maya. 2013 and 2014.

Do I need to download BOTH Vray 3.0 versions from the Chaos website?

[vlado]

Yes, you will need to download both of the respective installations.

Best regards,
Vlado

[l1tay2]

Will I need two Vray 3.0 licenses, or just one?

[vlado]

You will need just one license.

Best regards,
Vlado

[l1tay2]

Vlado,

I am having issues installing Vray.

When i try to render i get the error message...

// Error: Could not obtain an interface license (-200)!

Also, when i try to launch the vray license server i get the error:

One of the following licenses are required:
WibuKey 250897:7758101
Failure reason: A suitable WibuBox entry was not found (17).

Can you help me?

[l1tay2]

Vlado - see my last reply.

I figured out that the usb port i was using for the dongle was not reading the dongle. I switched to another port and it read it fine.

What i found interesting though...

In the default Maya render view, I would render a scene and get this error message.
// Error: Could not obtain an interface license (-200)!
The screen was black but it was obviously rendering something since it displayed the time it took. 7 seconds.

I then launched the vray frame buffer and I could see the render.

I went back to the default render and tried again. Same thing. Black screen with same error message.

I then closed the frame buffer.

I went back to the default render and rendered again. No error message and it worked.

[Tania.Metodieva]

Please let us know what is the OS that you are using.
In order o verify that you have the proper licenses on you dongle, please send us context.wbc file for it.
You can e-mail it to support@chaosgroup.com along with some screen shots of the error and details steps to reproduce it.
Please also include the link to this forum thread.

Thank you.