LICENSE questions

[puppyhouse]

I cant find any information on the licenses.

What is the difference between the
v1.0 Studio BETA Program license - and a COMMERCIAL license?

What does the BETA license allow?

thanks

[SurfingAlien]

we're in beta development stage now, that's why you bought a beta software at a beta price.
once 1.0 final will be released it will be the "commercial" one. you'll have it and any 1.x updates...

short answer is: 1) no difference and 2) anything you're able to do

cheers,
A

EDIT: sorry, I just seen you haven't bought it yet... nevermind, the answers are still the same

[puppyhouse]

short answer is: 1) no difference


so its full commercial license then? Good.


and 2) anything you're able to do

ANYTHING?

How about max number of cores? using on Render farm?

How many machines can it be installed on?

thanks!

[SurfingAlien]

short answer is: 1) no difference


so its full commercial license then? Good.


and 2) anything you're able to do

ANYTHING?

How about max number of cores? using on Render farm?

How many machines can it be installed on?

thanks!

sorry again... I mean Anything in a creative way (just thought you were asking if it's usable for commercial work)
- no render farm ATM (given you will need one... tried the demo?)
- licenses are per machine (1 lic = 1 machine)
- cores... how many CUDA cores your GPU has (the more the better) - I don't think there's a limit in CPU cores until it's a single machine

[havensole]

The commercial will cost roughly twice as much when the final release comes out, but if you bough a beta license you will get it for half the price (basically an additional 100 euros ontop of the beta license when it comes out). I'm not sure when the target date is for Octane to come out of beta, but I believe we are still a ways away from that, so it is a good way to soften the blow to your wallet, not that it hits it that hard to begin with.

Unlike a lot of other rendering software out there you aren't limited to the number of cores you use (I still have no clue why that has become a standard in the multicore era).

As stated 1 license works for 1 computer. You can migrate your license to a new system as you upgrade, but they are watchful of people who send in multiple activation requests in a short period of time.

Render farms will probably come, but on a frame by frame basis, not bucket/frame splitting. You could theoretically already do this with Dr.Que or some other scriptible render farm manager. I haven't tried it, as I haven't found the need.

Octane is fast. Just take a look at the video page and look at the Lambo vid. That was done with 2 gtx480's. Something a cpu based render system couldn't dream of, at least not without investing about 5-20+ times as much as the cost of 2 gtx480's. I know the cubix guys were talking about a 10x gtx480 configuration they were going to test, but I am not sure where they are with that yet.

[puppyhouse]

Thanks havensole, for reply.

So as I understand it, the Beta license SHOULD be upgraded to a COMMERCIAL
license - when it is ready. And that would likely be HALF price of 200 Euros, or about
100 MORE Euros { in addition to the BETA cost }.

What I am unclear on, still, is the full permissions of the BETA license. IE: If
a person chose NOT to upgrade to commercial, he could therefore
NOT use his renderings for commercial work?

thanks

[havensole]

Well I'm sure you could. The way the beta is now we are missing a lot of features, some of which will probably only come in the full commercial release. Radiance would be the better person to explain this. Think of it less as commercial, as in industrial or product used professionally, and more as a retail product bought and used for whatever purpose.

[SurfingAlien]

if you buy 1.0 beta you're actually buying 1.0 final/commercial (and 1.x updates) before it's out, hence the price is reduced to a half 199€ -> 99€ (let's call it an investment...): you won't need to pay again until 2.0 is out

as for using Octane beta for commercial I don't think there's any restriction (you bought a full license but you haven't got all the features yet), on the contrary a beta software used for commercial stuff is a great adv imho