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This page provides some information on how to get V-Ray Swarm up and running.

 

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Overview

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This guide is to serve as a reference for the installation of V-Ray Swarm.  If you experience any problems, please contact the Chaos Group Support team.

Installation Process

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In order to use V-Ray Swarm, you need at least one additional machine with Swarm installed.

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1) Please read over the license agreement. To continue with the installation process, click the I Agree button.

 

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2) If you choose to accept the default installation parameters, click the Install Now button.

 

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Windows Default Install path - C:\Program Files\Chaos Group\V-Ray Swarm

Mac OS X Default Install path - /Applications/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/Swarm


3) If you need to set up license and Network discovery settings, click the Customize button.

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Rendering with V-Ray Swarm requires V-Ray 3.0 Render Node license. Fill in the IP address/port of the machine where V-Ray license server is running.

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4) By default, V-Ray Swarm's Network Discovery is set up to auto-discover machines on the network. If the Use auto-discovery option is disabled, the custom configuration of the manually set Master Node becomes Coordinator becomes available. This option is suitable if there is more than one subnet in the LAN or if you want to dedicate one or more machines to be Master NodesCoordinator. You may choose three machines as master Coordinator nodes: one primary Master Node (Master node IPCoordinator (Coordinator IP) and two alternate Master NodesCoordinators.

 

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After you are done, click the Install Now button.

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5) The installation process is now complete. Click the Finish button.

 

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Notes

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  • Swarm relies on a fast Local Area Network (LAN) to communicate between different machines. It needs this to keep open connections in order to move and distribute data.

  • Each Swarm machine needs a V-Ray 3.0 Render Node license for rendering. This means that if you have 100 computers with Swarm on them, but only 5 render node licenses, only 5 will be used to render at a time.

  • V-Ray Swarm for Windows installs Visual C++ Redistributable 2015. This dependency is needed for running V-Ray products (such as V-Ray Standalone started by the V-Ray Swarm). If the computer already has an earlier version of Visual C++ installed it will be updated to 2015. If there is a later version installed, the installer will print out an error message and use the version currently installed.