3ds Max 2021 + Vray 5 Issues

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We have run into an issues where 3ds Max 2021 and Vray 5 renders on some machines and fails on others. The common error message is this:

Error: FailRenderException : RenderTask: Unexpected exception (Failed to open the max renderer.
Could not read V-Ray environment variable “VRAY5_FOR_3DSMAX2021_MAIN”. Please re-install

I have reinstalled Vray 5 as “Admin” and still having the issues on over half the render nodes.

Thanks,
Austin ReedErrorLog_3dsMax2021_Vray5.7z (8.0 KB)

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Reboot the machines, whenever installing Vray, especially the first time. Looks like they just haven’t picked up the environment variables yet

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Anthony,

After a reboot, another install, reboot it finally took! Thanks for the tip!

Austin Reed

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