Installation

Register at http://www.chaosgroup.com/. Download the latest V-Ray For Maya for your operation system.

Download the latest exporter script (vrayExport_<version>.py) from the main page.

Windows

Start the installation program, type paths:

Copy script to C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\.blender\scripts\ or to $HOME\.blender\scripts or <where-you-install-Blender>\.blender\scripts\

Start Blender and run Render->V-Ray/Blender. Go to System panel, press "..." button, go to C:\programs\vray\plugins\bin\ and choose vray.exe. Press Save.

You can also watch great video installation tutorial by afecelis in the Tutorial section of the main page.

If you are using V-Ray Advance, run C:\programs\vray\plugins\vrlserver.exe to enter authorization code.

Linux

Run your favorite terminal emulator (for example, xterm, konsole or gnome-terminal), copy downloaded V-Ray archive to ~/tmp and unzip it:

$ mkdir ~/tmp
$ cp vray_demo_<version>_maya2008_linux_x<arch>.zip ~/tmp
$ cd ~/tmp
$ unzip vray_demo_<version>_maya2008_linux_x<arch>.zip

Installation program requires superuser privileges so use su or sudo

$ su
# ./linuxinstaller.exe

or

$ sudo ./linuxinstaller.exe

then type paths:

Maya root folder: [...]: /opt/vray/
V-Ray plugins destination folder: [...]: /opt/vray/plugins/
V-Ray additional files: [...]: /opt/vray/share/

Copy script to ~/.blender/scripts/

Start Blender and run Render->V-Ray/Blender. Go to System panel, press "..." button, go to /opt/vray/plugins/bin/ and choose vray. Press Save.

If you are using V-Ray Advance, run /opt/vray/plugins/vrlserver.exe to enter authorization code.

You are ready now to use V-Ray/Blender :)