To avoid rendering in both frame buffers - V-Ray's and Blenders' go to the Render Setup and in the Render panel set the Display parameter to Keep UI.Ĥ. %VRAY_PATH% - this variable shows where V-Ray Standalone is installed - %VRAY_FOR_MAYA_* - this variable shows where V-Ray for Maya is installed - %PATH% - this variable allows you to manually specify the location of V-Ray Standalone Since there may be more than one V-Ray Standalone installed V-Ray for Blender will search for the installation path according to the following hierarchy: V-Ray For Blender will automatically detect any V-Ray Standalone installation using V-Ray's environment variables. If you need to manually specify the vray.exe that you want to use you can do that by disabling the 'Detect V-Ray' check box in the Exporter panel under Render Settings. This will show you the Path field which you can use to specify the location of the V-Ray Standalone executional file. V-Ray for Blender is set up to work in two stages. In the first stage the scene is exported to a. #Vray for blender windows#įor that to happen the Exporter will save the scene in a temporary folder on your hard drive:įor Windows that is C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Temp vrscene file which is then transferred to and rendered by V-Ray Standalone in the second stage. You can also manually set the folder to which the.