[osuire]

Now if I have a main workstation to do the modeling and render setup, and use a separate machine only to calculate the render, do I need to purchase a slave node license ?
I insist that only one machine will be rendering in this worflow.

Sorry if this is a silly question, but I was unable to find a clear answer on NL's website

Cheers !

[rusteberg]

no. your single license should cover 4 machines regardless of cores....

............ diiiiiiiid you try that already?

edit: see below...

[osuire]

no. your single license should cover 4 machines regardless of cores....

............ diiiiiiiid you try that already?

Well, no , because I don't have the new workstation yet

So, 1 license , 4 machines, no limit on cores... !
Wow ! My info is completely outdated !
Looks like competition had a positive effect on this licensing policy business, huh ?

Thanks my little Snorky fellow

--
Olivier

[brodie_geers]

hrm...not sure that's accurate. At least that's not how it seems to be working for me. I have a similar setup to what the original poster mentioned. I use one machine to work on and for the occasional low res test render and that sort of thing and another machine for my real rendering power. If I've got a render going on my rendering machine and start a test render up on my other machine it will stop at a SL of like 0.02 and give me a note saying that my maximum number of licenses has been reached or something to that affect. So number of cores doesn't matter but you can only render on one computer at a time with 1 license. So I think your original setup would work fine, but I wouldn't expect to be able to render farm your 2 computers or anything like that w/ your license. Maybe it was different at one time, my license was purchased about a year ago.

I certainly hope this changes w/ version 2. It seems like all the renderers out there give you the ability to render farm now without having to buy additional node licenses. At work I've got about 12 computers in the training room just itching to be used but I'll be darned if the boss is going to spring $5,000 just to make my renderings faster.

This is what the Maxwell page says in the purchasing section "No CPU Core limit - Each standard license is valid for a single machine with no CPU limit"

-Brodie

[rusteberg]

apologies osuire, it seems my information is outdated.....

you are right brodie, if you purchased during alpha, beta or rc then you were given 4 licenses which i believe used to cover one license per core, then it switched to unlimited cores per single license. my mistake!!!! sorry for the confusion
so if you open up mx studio it should tell you how many licenses you have.....
from the maxwell site:

Maxwell Render 1.x Standard licenses come with:
Complete feature package of Maxwell Render Engine (MXCL), Maxwell Studio (MXST), and Maxwell Material Editor (MXED).
Free Plug-ins: access to all available Maxwell Render plug-ins for the major 3D design and CAD software.
Free Updates until a new major version is released.
No CPU Core limit - Each standard license is valid for a single machine with no CPU limit
Software is download only and your license information will be sent by email as soon as your order is processed.
Maxwell Render 1.x is currently available for Win (32 & 64 bits), Mac OSX and Linux (64 bits).

[rusteberg]

so it looks like you will have to purchase nodes osuire......

[Michael Betke]

Indeed. I got my license two weeks ago and would have to buy a new node license. Other renderers give this ability.
But in my case I will upgrade to a dual-cpu xeon and have enought power to render nice stuff. especially with the new 2.0 update and speed enhancement which made me buy maxwell.

[yolk]

i don't get it..when i start waxmell studio it says:

number of licenses 8 + 0 nodes..what does that mean? i can kill 8 spies? i'm lost

[def4d]

Hmm, same question here with 4+0.
Will upgrading to the new release give me an additional license, or will i have only one, as today?

I will soon upgrade to a bi-xeon, moving my actual quad core to my second computer, that will be able to render too.
What i could do then with my 2 computers?

[nicole]

Hi everyone,

Maxwell Render standard licenses are floating and work per concurrent user, so you can install a license on as many machines as you like, but if you have one license, you can only run Maxwell on one machine at the same time. So if you have 2 machines, and use one to set up your scene, then turn off Maxwell, then start the other machine running Maxwell to render the scene, that should work. Only if the two machines would run at the same time would you need a node license. As mentioned, there are no core limitations.
Users who bought Maxwell Render in the pre-V1 stage (alpha, beta, etc.) had the chance to claim a "plus one" license when V1 was released, so they had an additional license for each license they bought. It is no longer possible to claim this extra license.
Then when V1.5 was released, we changed our licensing policy and "tranformed" each (already existing) license into 4. So any license bought before V1.5 was made into 4. Therefore, some of you who bought one license of Maxwell Beta, now have 8. (1 became 2, and 2 became 8 ). If your license says 8 + 0 nodes, you have 8 standard licenses and 0 nodes, and you can run Maxwell on 8 concurrent machines.
I hope this helps.

Cheers,

Nicole

[def4d]

Clear as water, thanks Nicole

So i'll need a node license to network rendering, roger that!

We want to know prices pleeeeeeeeeease

[nicole]

Hi Def,

If your license file states 4 + 0 nodes, you actually have 4 licenses and can run 4 computers in network, at the same time. So unless you want to run more than 4 concurrent machines, you do not need a node license.

Thanks,

Nicole

[mashium123]

Hi Def,

If your license file states 4 + 0 nodes, you actually have 4 licenses and can run 4 computers in network, at the same time. So unless you want to run more than 4 concurrent machines, you do not need a node license.

Thanks,

Nicole

...yes, this is what my license files does state.
so, i will have to buy one upgrade license to maxwell v2 to have all my 4+0 upgraded?
or will i need to pay the upgrade price four times?

[def4d]

at the price of...??? Please Nicole, please NL, please please please

Considering a certainly (near?) future Modo+Maxwell pack, as you did with the Rhino pack i purchased, same have-a-pity-for-us question here

[osuire]

Thanks Nicole for the explanation.
Will I be able to continue working on Rhino on my workstation while my render box churns out SLs ?
Otherwise said : does the plug-in count as an instance of Maxwell when it is loaded in memory ?