Only if you bought a network license...i being a hobbyist, read not making profit and working solo, didnt know about the differences, i recall being told by a reseller on the phone just before purchase it came with batch licenses...it does...just for processing. Also paying 3k+ to begin with was tough and the network license wasn't even mentioned by my reseller when i said i wanted to buy xsi. My reseller also told me i could use softimage on a work computer and mobile/home computer...'so you really get two licenses' or whatever his exact wording was *buzzer sound* wrong. if you read the eula...you can install on two...but cant render/use them at the same time. My buying experience wasn't fun. I felt like i never had to jump through so many hoops to find someone to hand thousands of dollars to for anything, need less get a digital license key some kid in his basement could generate. Prior to knowing this info about the network license I decided to get the entertainment bundle upgrade because with the softimage discount and entertainment upgrade discount i was getting everything for the price of softimage and mudbox...talked myself into paying a little cc interest for stretching paying it off. Which mudbox turned out to be...not worth the money, imho. This is the most expensive purchase for a hobby and fourth highest purchase I had ever made at that point.
Turns out that "great" cross grade/upgrade meant I couldn't upgrade just softimage later, when i was informed of the difference in licenses (its not just for studios with x number of users). i now needed to now buy a network upgrade for the entire entertainment bundle, no longer on sale. not just a softimage upgrade. Oh, the fun licensing stuff you arent aware of until you need/want something. Just like when I was informed by a reseller years earlier that if i bought the educational version (prior to ad making everthing free to students) i could upgrade to retail for much less....this was also incorrect. Resellers really know their stuff huh... There was no upgrade path for softimage at that time. Maya and max sure...not softimage. So anyway...now here i was...months after i bought softimage, after my original edu purchase of a perpetual edu license had already stopped working (the dongle died a third time and now ad owned softimage and didnt support the dongle), having the seperate edu upgrade issue, the eol notice and the information that i would need to pay 3k or something to get 5 render licenses for an eol product. It felt insane...because i knew at that very moment somewhere in the world...someone was illegally downloading/using softimage and having a better experience. Which alway makes me think...i should learn blender...then i try using blender and remember how bad the ui sucks. Then i remember that AD didnt come up with softimage...and now its dead because of them and their years of uninteresting features. Then i want a drink. If only i had 35 million to offer to buy softimage from ad. Can we not kickstart that? In the end even if i could upgrade just softimage to networm...i dont think i can justify giving more money to a company that i feel has left me and many others high and dry through their actions or the reseller process or the cs processes they choose to use. Which is why i would love to be able to transfer licenses and pay just the original owner...but us laws around IP are at times insane. On Sep 16, 2015 2:37 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > doesn’t a Softimage license come with 5 or so batch licenses - or was this > changed at some point? > > > *From:* Patrick Neese <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Tuesday, September 15, 2015 10:23 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: Soft licenses still available for purchase? > > 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 :) >
