C4D Mac CUDA subscription not including network rendering?

[3dworks]

Hi I'm somewhat puzzled. Today my version 2020 license with all access did expire. As now there is no option to extend the AA, I did switch to the regular studio subscription. I read that 10 network slaves are free. Now I installed the studio version (C4D 2020.2.5-R3 for CUDA) but cannot find the network rendering menu entry anymore. How can I get back network rendering with my CUDA version?

To explain in other words: until today i did use an enterprise C4D mac 2020 version on my MacPro with CUDA card and rendered over render nodes on a windows machine with 6 GPU cards. As i switched to the studio C4D plugin for licensing reasons (enterprise did expire) the network rendering is gone as a menu entry and i cannot render with my 6 extra GPU's on windows anymore.

Please, I need urgent help, as I have to get to a deadline within the next 48 hours...

[frankmci]

Did you download the Studio version by accident? I think I've done that a couple of times. Give the Enterprise build a shot. I think the 10 network nodes was added after Octane 2020, so you need the Enterprise build to access them. I've still got Octane 2020.2.5_R3 Enterprise with C4D R21 set for network rendering on one of our cylinder Macs under High Sierra, but that particular Octane subscription has expired. But it certainly network rendered a fine.
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[3dworks]

Did you download the Studio version by accident? I think I've done that a couple of times. Give the Enterprise build a shot. I think the 10 network nodes was added after Octane 2020, so you need the Enterprise build to access them. I've still got Octane 2020.2.5_R3 Enterprise with C4D R21 set for network rendering on one of our cylinder Macs under High Sierra, but that particular Octane subscription has expired. But it certainly network rendered a fine.
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Unfortunately, my old licence with AA expired and there is no option to extend anymore. You only can switch to the studio + subscription, which apparently is not letting you use the old enterprise versions. As a matter of fact, after changing the plugin to studio version, i could work again with Octane inside C4D, but network rendering is gone. The previous enterprise version will not be loaded anymore as the old extended enterprise AA licence expired today.

Could it be that Otoy did not care about extending support of network rendering for those who need to use older versions (like here, as CUDA on Mac is only supported up to version 2020)? This would be really outrageous, and I hope to get some kind of solution for this problem from Otoy. Being a customer since 2010 I would expect this.

[frankmci]

Could it be that Otoy did not care about extending support of network rendering for those who need to use older versions (like here, as CUDA on Mac is only supported up to version 2020)? This would be really outrageous, and I hope to get some kind of solution for this problem from Otoy. Being a customer since 2010 I would expect this.

The support folks hae always been good to me, and quite reasonable. As I understand it, at this point you should be able to get the standard $24/month, $240/year license and use which ever previous versions you need.

[3dworks]

Indeed I got a very good solution from support, a big thank you to Kevin and Beppe for caring! Looking forward a really usable "X" version with cross platform network rendering, which would make all this hassle gone. Cheers Markus