So, I did use the “install from dir” instructions when I did our setup, and I did notice the “install into empty folder” method in the descriptions.
The only thing that had me “install into the maya directory” was this part in the instructions.
You will get a message that an error occurred during the installation, because the installer will not be able to find and modify some of the standard Maya MEL scripts, which otherwise cause minor glitches when running V-Ray inside Maya. You can safely ignore this error.
It had me worried that I didn’t get the Mel code that is rather necessary in order to run it in interactive mode.
Maybe I should check that part again.
On the other hand, I really doubt that these mel files(the modified maya ones) will ever change (between vray versions), so we will probably ignore those in the future builds and just use the same one.
I was only asking about the zip for nightlies in case it was an easy thing for you.
None of this is a “problem” at all (and its not that often we update anyway), its more a question of ironing out the workflow a bit (it wont always be myself who takes care of it, so the easier it is the easier it is to give to somebody else).
All in all I hope these posts will also help other people in the future so thanks for the feedback everybody.