If you don’t understand the installation instructions, call the shop for advice and clarification. If it doesn’t work after you correctly followed the installation instructions, take it back to the shop.

The bottom line is you bought something from a shop. If you already owned a licence it would have to be upgraded, if not they should have provided you with the correct support to be able to run it. If it isn’t working, you should probably contact your V-Ray reseller in the first instance and advise them of whatever error messages are showing in the Blender console. You need to install the dongle driver, licence server and V-Ray.

You would have received instructions on how to install and run the licence server with the dongle drivers and licence server software.

The hardware dongle doesn’t run V-Ray, it runs the licence server. I’ve succeeded to run the server but my dongle is running Vray for 3ds max 1.5… Vray never asked me the licence so I don’t know if the dongle key is used or not… (I got a dongle key but I don’t understand how it’s used)… Speaking of vray 3.0: Not sure if it was perfectly good timing to buy vray 2.0 just now - with vray standalone 3.0 around the corner you can only hope to fall under some kind of grace period to get a free upgrade when it arrives. But vray/blender 3.0 nightlies are supposed to run with vray 2.0, too, only some vray 3.0 specific functions and nodes will (naturally!) not work. From my understanding they’re working on vray 3.0 integration into vray/blender for quite some time now, that’s why they haven’t released a newer “final” version since 2.69. They will check if you’re a licensed customer and provide you with access to the nightly repository.

Drop an email to Chaosgroup’s support team at. Newer versions of vray/blender are afaik available as “nightlies”. Then launch vray/blender: The license server checks the validity of the hardware dongle and will allow vray to run when called from within blender. Make sure the license server is up and running - it will throw an error message if you launch it without the dongle plugged in. B) the vray license server (vrlservice_adv_2xxxx_圆4.exe)Ĭ) vray standalone (vray_adv_2xxxx_maya_201x_圆4.exe)

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