Unattended installation of V-Ray for SU 2015

[bridge]

Hello,

I am finding that when using "--mode unattended --unattendedmodeui minimal" options with the V-Ray for SketchUp 2015 install that vcredist_vs2005_x86.exe is prompting for an ok to proceed. In my experience this did NOT occur with the V-Ray for SketchUp 2014 installer despite the fact that vcredist_vs2005_x86.exe is still bundled and installed by default. This seems like a bug or at minimum a change in regards to how the V-Ray installer calls vcredist_vs2005_x86.exe. See related attachments.

Any thoughts on how to get around this?

Thanks,
Bridge

[infotech]

Coming across this issue as well with the SketchUp 2015 version of VRay.

I tried pre-installing vcredit_vs2005_x86.exe (using the /Q switch to silence it) prior to launching the Vray installer ... figuring that maybe if the VRay installer detected that C++ 2005 Redist x86 has already been installed, it will skip that step.

Unfortunately, VRay for SketchUp 2015 x64 installer will launch "vcredit_vs2005_x86.exe" regardless if its already present.

This is seems to be a bug indeed ... and/or the Bitrock installer is not configured to conditionally detect if the C++ Redist component is already installed ... and skips it.

If this is how its going to be moving forward ... can we have at least an allowed C++ Redist value in the "--disable-components" component switch when calling the installer?

Any feedback would be help ... as we have a large user base we need to deploy this to.

Thanks!

[infotech]

Support confirmed that there is indeed a switch that can be applied to the VRay for SketchUp BitRock installer ... to skip the vcredist_vs2005_x86 pop up installation window.

So my work around to getting a silent installation of VRay for SketchUp 2015 (using batch scripting):

1) Install "vcredit_vs2005_x86.exe" separately using the /Q switch to suppress UI (unattended installation)

2) Used the following switches to perform unattended install and skip the C++ Redist portion: vray_adv_20025244_sketchup_2015_win_x64.exe" --mode unattended --disable-components VCRedist

Confirmed result was a completely unobtrusive installation of the plugin.