Changing to Vray renderer crashes Viz

[alfienoakes]

Strange one... and Im not sure where to start trying to sort it. Its a "not many clues one"

 

I have been using Vray 1.47 with Viz 2006. I have not upgraded sooner as 1 job was running into another etc.. and some continuity was needed.

 

I made my application for a dongle way back last year.. Still not received one yet, but gather a lot of people havent.

 

So, I am trying to use the software dongle that was emailed to me. Now, I have got the main Vray 1.5 r3 for Max 8, as I understand this is the one for Viz 2007.

 

Viz starts up OK.. all the plugins load no problem, and Viz starts up as I would expect. The problem starts when I open the render dialogue tab, and go to the "assign renderer" roll out.

 

I get presented with the usual 2, MR and the VNU ( i think..) renderer, and the now new Vray 1.5. I can choose the other 2 without error. But when I choose the Vray 1.5, it starts to change to that renderer, but before it finishes loading, I get a main Viz crash, with an unhandled exception, a chance to save any work, and then chucked out..?

 

I have no clue what is causing it.. If anyone does have any clues or things I could try, I would greatly appreciate it..

 

Cheers

 

Andy

[alfienoakes]

Just an update..

 

With RC3 of Vray, and the software dongle.. you dont need to copy the cgauth.dll file over.. just choose software license and thats it..!

 

Courtesy of Vlado over at Chaosgroup....