Dongle-less V-Ray......

[alexyork]

I used to do this at work all the time using logmein hamachi which was a free drive sharing utility. You ran the software on your work and your home machine and added them both into a pool of computers. Any shares you had set up on your work computer were then easily mappable on your home computer using hamachi's technology which handled all the VPN stuff in the background for you and just gave you a simple ip for the other computer. As well as sharing drive mappings, hamachi also shared ports. I had the vray license server and dongle running on my work machine, so it was easy to connect to the vray license server using the ip from hamachi and then whatever port number you were using for your vray license server.

The current company I'm working for has a much more closed off firewall though so I can't do the same thing as easily.

That sounds really interesting... will look into it, cheers!

[datalost]

Hi! Any news about this issue?
I´ve got kind of an incident with my dongle and i can't have it temporarily to use it.
It would be nice to have an alternative before i have to order another one from my reseller. Because it's urgent and there is no chance to retrieve the "old" one.
Anything would be appreciated. I know it sounds silly but i had to ask.
Thank you in advance.

[vlado]

Hi! Any news about this issue?
I´ve got kind of an incident with my dongle and i can't have it temporarily to use it.
It would be nice to have an alternative before i have to order another one from my reseller. Because it's urgent and there is no chance to retrieve the "old" one.
Anything would be appreciated. I know it sounds silly but i had to ask.
Thank you in advance.

It would be best to to contact our support guys at support@chaosgroup.com - they will be able to help you out.

Best regards,
Vlado

[datalost]

Thank you Vlado it's a real pain to be so lackadaisical

[jstrob]

That's great news! I always fear the day my dongle will stop working for some reason like kids spilling juice on it or whatever and then loose a multi-billion contract because of that!!!

Serioulsy the other day my 2 years-old son catched my dongle during a intense job and started running with it... I almost had a heart attack!

[vlado]

That's great news! I always fear the day my dongle will stop working for some reason like kids spilling juice on it or whatever and then loose a multi-billion contract because of that!!!

You can always get a replacement dongle. And we can provide a temporary solution until it arrives anyways.

Of course, online licensing will make this more convenient, but you won't be stuck without a license, don't worry

Best regards,
Vlado

[jstrob]

Ok good to know Vlado, I'll sleep better now!

[coolhand78]

this is great news! for a small company that is growing spread over 2 cities with staff moving around between them this is great news... the dongles have been a bit of a nightmare honestly.

[bvoldm]

Is there any update on where we're at with providing a dongle-less vray for Max/Maya users?

[Svetlozar Draganov]

We are working very hard on the subject but we haven't got a version for Max and Maya yet.
I believe that when we are ready we will share that information on all channels.

[vlado]

Like Svetlozar said we are working on it. My desire is to have that option with the next service packs of V-Ray for Max and Maya, but we'll see how things go.

Best regards,
Vlado

[bvoldm]

Oh awesome that's great. Really looking forward to it.

[Raph4]

Good news.
I find dongle too dangerous (especially if you have children) and a bit useless today for manage licence.

Personally, I have put dongle inside my tower, my motherboard has 1 USB Port inside ^^.
V-Ray without dongle... I agree.

[Sliver_Creations]

Good news.
I find dongle too dangerous (especially if you have children) and a bit useless today for manage licence.

Personally, I have put dongle inside my tower, my motherboard has 1 USB Port inside ^^.
V-Ray without dongle... I agree.

THIS!

I had my daughter (2.5) janking out the dongle during render. But seeing it was the only brightly coloured USB I can't blame her.

[eyepiz]

I really hope the dongles don't go away...when my machine goes Kaboom! which seems to happen about once or twice a year on like the beginning of a weekend when I'n on a tight deadline. Being able to get up and running within an hour or two with out waiting for licence transfers and online activation's is a huge plus for me!

They could be a bit smaller though like the Logitech USB transmitters.

-E