[nicole]

Hi everyone,

We will soon be launching the Next Limit customer gateway.
The gateway has been provided so that you can access and manage your company information, contacts, and your Maxwell Render licenses. Using your personal username and log-in you can see how many Maxwell Render licenses you currently hold and quickly upgrade them to the latest version.

The gateway will also offer permanent, direct access to the customer download area as well as direct contact forms to the sales and technical support teams.

Please note that the first stage of this gateway will only show Maxwell Render information. RealFlow/ RF RenderKit license information will also be available soon.

If you are a Maxwell license holder and the default contact for your company, you will shortly receive an email about how to access the customer gateway. Educational license holders do not have access as yet, but this is only temporary. More information coming soon. Once you have received the email, please log-in and check the company and license information, and inform us immediately via the contact form in the gateway or via http://www.nextlimit.com/contact_sales.php if you think the information is incorrect. Incorrect information may affect your ability to manage your licenses.

Maxwell Render version 2 pricing and upgrades

From the gateway you can see how many Maxwell Render licenses you currently hold. You will be able to quickly upgrade them to the latest version when this is available. The online shop will be activated as soon as Maxwell Render 2 is released, and pricing information will also be made available at this time.

Important note about upgrades to Maxwell Render V2: Our aim is to be as flexible as possible with your upgrades. You can upgrade as many (or as few) of your current licenses as you wish. You can also upgrade your version 1 standard licenses to V2 rendernode licenses (if you do not require as many GUI/user licenses but wish to retain them for render only machines) provided you upgrade at least one version 1 Standard licenses to a V2 standard license. Pricing information will be made available when Maxwell Render V2 is released.

I hope this is clear.

Cheers!

Nicole

[Maximus3D]

Thanks for the info Nicole it sounds promising for the future. I just tested the site with the emailed login and it worked fine here in both Opera and FireFox.

/ Max

[jo]

Thanks for the info Nicole it sounds promising for the future. I just tested the site with the emailed login and it worked fine here in both Opera and FireFox.

/ Max

+1

(Safari on 7_64bit)

Ciao, Gio

[djflod]

yap same here

works fine nicole

[Josephus Holt]

Can't see my earlier reply...so sorry if this double posts.

Thanks much Nicole....looks like it wont' be long!

Since I have 8 standard licenses and it's just me using Maxwell, I'm thinking it would be cost-wise best to upgrade one full standard license to v2 and converting all others to render nodes. Can anyone see any advantage to keeping more full standard licenses (at presumable considerable more cost)?

Joe

[fuso]

Thanks for letting us know Nicole. I have also successfully logged in and submitted the updated company info using
the form. It works fine from here, no problems. Nevertheless I do have a question: As Maxwell v1.7 license holders,
do we have to pay for the upgrade to version 2.0?

I'm not sure if this has been asked elsewhere before, I just want to avoid confusion about this.

Thanks again.

Jost

[contact7]

Worked fine here on IE8.

On the company tab, most fields are blank though.
Is that OK?

Mark

[jo]

Worked fine here on IE8.

On the company tab, most fields are blank though.
Is that OK?

Mark

I didn't try to edit it: probably we have to (if we want)

Ciao, Gio

[Tea_Bag]

As Maxwell v1.7 license holders,
do we have to pay for the upgrade to version 2.0?

Yes

[Asmithey]

From what I understand, you only need one render node license with Maxwell Render. If you have one render node license it will work with as many computers you have on your rendering network, correct.??? So I do not think you need to convert all the other licenses to render node license??????


Aaron

[nicole]

Hi Fuso: Yes, Version 2 will be a paid-for upgrade. We will announce the upgrade prices when V2 is released.

Hi Mark: It's a good idea to let us know about any missing information or changes. Our aim is to have complete info on file for every customer! You can send an email through your gateway account.

Hi Aaron: RenderNode licenses are floating and work per concurrent machine, so you can indeed install them on as many machines as you like, but one node can only run on one machine at the same time. Therefore, if you'd like to run more computers concurrently (for example in a small renderfarm), you'd need more node licenses.

We're pleased to see the gateway is working well for you. Thanks for the feedback!

Cheers!

Nicole

[Luca_Studioaltieri]

Gateway works fine & fast.
Thank you!

[PA3K]

Hello,

for me everything works o.k.. There is just one (my) "company contacts" I want to remove. It was my friend who helped me to buy Maxwell alpha with his bank account.

And I want to ask another question. My last name include diacritics,so I didn`t wrote my last name with this special sign, just because it can be displayed as a square on computers without other language support. I didn`t have any problem with this yet, I just want to know how Next limit manages this.

Patrik

[-Adrian]

Works good (ff 3.5)

[Richard]

Nicole

Sorry could you explain somethings to me in plain english. I don't get some the terminology - floating, nodes etc. I'm dumb so sorry for that!

I have a license from the beta days, not sure what one can do with that.

I have a desktop and a laptop, I have MR on both - does this license allow netwroking them and still using either and what does this all mean on upgrade.

I maybe asking silly questions - not really sure what questions to ask! I need to get with the program I think!