When I was in university, offerings for educational licenses were just
starting
to become available. Not free but almost at a student´s budget price tag.
Today, Autodesk offers a great many (if not all?) of it´s applications as
a free download for educational use.
I know two people that have access to these licenses, one is/was
teaching 3D classes part-time,
the other got elligible when losing his job and getting a state funded
job orientation kind of class.
It might be worth checking out if you are eligible by enrolling into
something like an online course?
I do remember watching a promo/intro video for one of the 3D
Tutorial/online class providers
and they were saying exactly that, they are accredited with Autodesk
which grants their students
educational access to Autodesk or Foundry software.
That´s as good as it can get?
Cheers,
tim
Am 17.09.2015 um 05:33 schrieb Tenshi .:
If i only have that money which people in general DON'T... so, this is
a bad move again by AD. They can do so much better. :)
On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Stefan Kubicek <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
That's exactly how I got my license too.
And: I don't remember the original price of Softimage standalone,
but $3700.- for Maya/Max + Softimage is the same as for Maya/Max only?
At least in the EU I don't think it has ever been much cheaper?
Not that it's incredibly cheap to begin with, but 2 packages for
the price of one doesn't sound like that bad a deal to me.
I don´t know about latest developments or newly introduced
intricacies
but I can report a successful transfer of a Softimage license
ownership to me.
The process involved a signed document of the previous owner,
basically
transfering ownership to me, my adress, my signature and a
helpful reseller
making that transfer happen with Autodesk.
If I recall correctly, the transfer process involved a fee but
that was dropped
in favour of me directly buying subscription support to "help"
the transfer process.
It´s a while back and it took a while to sort out the Autodesk
database to merge
multiple stray entries in my customer account listings but in
the end, it all worked out.
The moment the license ownership was transfered, I never had
to get back to the
original owner. I saw the document once, signed once and that
was it.
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Personally, I don´t see the disturbing problem in getting a
Maya+Softimage bundle
instead of insisting on just the Softimage license. Or a 3DS
Max+Softimage bundle.
There is a good chance things change in the future and it
seems wise to brace for
that by having alternatives ready or to make sure an upgrade
or crossgrade option
is readily available?
4 grand is steep but that´s in line to the prices rising
across the board a while back.
I can still remember my first Maya rental license, a month´s
usage cost me roughly $2000 then.
That is not to say it wouldn´t be desireable to have someone
look into the general pricing scheme
of things. Of course, something like 20000-2500 dollars would
feel better to have to shell out
as an unexpected expense that may or may not bring venues.
It´s obviously not the same to keep 4 grands in the bank or
burried in a license eventually needed.
Myself, I wish I could "return" my 3DS Max snippet of my
ultimate bundle with the next upgrade
and just go with a Maya centric subscription supported box.
I never really opened 3DS Max since I went for the ultimate
bundle. Just bought it to open
a potential client market by being able to say yes to 3DS Max
files...
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Cheers,
tim
Am 15.09.2015 um 23:37 schrieb Graham Bell:
I'm not sure its that simple. I looked into this EU ruling in
my AD time and l was told at the time by one of the legal
guys that its is Autodesk's belief that their license
transfer policy is compatible with the EU ruling.
I would advise checking with Autodesk and/or one of their
partners on this though, if you wanted to take things further.
On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 at 22:29, Tom Kleinenberg
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I believe in the EU second-hand trading of software
licenses are legal.
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240214493/Second-hand-software-legal-or-illegal
Of course, finding somebody prepared to sell is possibly
problematic.
On 15 September 2015 at 22:49, Tenshi .
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I was saving for a Softimage license only, i thought
i could get one from a reseller but now it's clear
that we need to spend 4k for a)software i don't want.
b)software that is already dead. This is real?
I want my machine to have at least one softimage
license, not student or something like that.
Really i don't see what is the trouble selling a dead
software, what is the cost to that if they're saying
those licenses are perpetual, so they don't need any
servers to keep checking online? .. I find this whole
situation absurd, really.
If we have money, we can't buy;, and if they gave us
an option the only one is spending too much for
something i will not use.
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Patrick Neese
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
As a hobbyist with a single license...I fear the
day I create something worth while that I have to
figure out how to render with more than one
machine...since I only have one Mental Ray
license for softimage. I'm trying to learn
Maya... It is unfortunate I can't have a
softimage/mental ray license (or 20) transferred
to me from someone who just isn't using the
software anymore...or...is that possible? It
appears the LSA could allow for a transfer via
written approval by Autodesk (2.1.1 of the 2014
LSA) :) It's worth a shot :)
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