We’re trying to create a central install of vray rather than installing once per machine. Is this a) possible and b) a good idea? We do it with other plug ins and scripts, but can’t seem to get vray to work. Modifying to the paths in Maya.env causes maya to see the directory (when looking at Prefer…

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OK, so some progress. Doing the central install works. Modifying the Maya.ENV works and I see vrayformaya.plugin in the Plug In Manager. But checking “Loaded” results in: // Error: line 1: Unable to dynamically load : /Volumes/tools/vray_builds/2014/maya_vray/plug-ins/vrayformaya.bundle dlopen(/Vo…

I think it’s only a good idea as long as you don’t have to many machines that try to access vray at the same time. We have a central install running in our studio, but I bet it wouldn’t perform very well if we’d have many many machines. But for us it works very well!

[image] vrayspherefade composition using aftereffects OK, …t portion of the Maya.ENV: VRAY_FOR_MAYA2014_MAIN_x64=/Volumes/tools/vray_builds/2014/maya_vray VRAY_FOR_MAYA2014_PLUGINS_x64=/Volumes/tools/vray_builds/2014/maya_vray/vrayplugins XBMLANGPATH=/Volumes/tools/vray_builds/2014/maya_vray/i…

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[image] vrayspherefade composition using aftereffects VRAY_FOR_MAYA2014_MAIN_x64=/Volumes/tools/vray_builds/2014/maya_vray VRAY_FOR_MAYA2014_PLUGINS_x64=/Volumes/tools/vray_builds/2014/maya_vray/vrayplugins XBMLANGPATH=/Volumes/tools/vray_builds/2014/maya_vray/icons/%B VRAY_PATH=$VRAY_PATH:/Vo…

Was VRAY_TOOLS_MAYA20XX_x64 and VRAY_PATH introduced recently? I haven’t seen this before and our setup seems to run fine without it.

[image] Extra tex, but for vray materials Was VRAY_TOOLS_MAYA20XX_x64 and VRAY_PATH introduced recently? I haven’t seen this before and our setup seems to run fine without it. These are not needed by V-Ray itself, however some customers wanted the installer to set them for convenience. Best …

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vlado August 6, 2013, 10:55am 10

These are not needed by V-Ray itself, however some customers wanted the installer to set them for convenience.

Best regards,
Vlado

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