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This might be a bit of an unusual topic, so apologies in advance...I'm in need of some help/ideas for licencing...
I spend my time split between Australia and Europe. I work from home as a full-time renderer. I use v-ray... obviously. My current set-up is that I own a single v-ray licence, and use a second computer as a slave only. I'm currently in Europe, but have 3 months in Australia coming up. To continue working I usually take my computers with me and set-up a home-office wherever I'm living. However, this time I plan to leave my two PC's in Europe and buy a new PC in Australia....
This is where things get a bit tricky.... Since I'm lucky enough to have a stable physical office set-up (with amazing cheap internet) in Europe, I plan to leave my two PC's here (turned on/in sleep mode and accessible thru remote desktop). I hope to work in Australia during the day and shot off renders overnight to my two computers in Europe to render while I'm sleeping in Australia.
But... I can't figure out how I might get my licences to co-operate. I planned to take my dongle with me, but seeing as I might not have a computer ready for 2 weeks or so, that's also 2 weeks where I can't use v-ray on my European computers via remote desktop.
My questions:
- Is it somehow easy to transfer (borrow) licences in this situation... ie; a dongle plugged into a PC in Australia, and v-ray running in Europe on the same licence? I can see this being problematic...
- Or is there some other system I should be aware of for this set-up?
- If I buy a new licence (which I would like to avoid), does ChaosGroup permit me to re-sell my second licence when I no longer need it? Do people ever buy second-hand licences?
Any other ideas/tips would be greatly appreciated!!
Many thanks.
I spend my time split between Australia and Europe. I work from home as a full-time renderer. I use v-ray... obviously. My current set-up is that I own a single v-ray licence, and use a second computer as a slave only. I'm currently in Europe, but have 3 months in Australia coming up. To continue working I usually take my computers with me and set-up a home-office wherever I'm living. However, this time I plan to leave my two PC's in Europe and buy a new PC in Australia....
This is where things get a bit tricky.... Since I'm lucky enough to have a stable physical office set-up (with amazing cheap internet) in Europe, I plan to leave my two PC's here (turned on/in sleep mode and accessible thru remote desktop). I hope to work in Australia during the day and shot off renders overnight to my two computers in Europe to render while I'm sleeping in Australia.
But... I can't figure out how I might get my licences to co-operate. I planned to take my dongle with me, but seeing as I might not have a computer ready for 2 weeks or so, that's also 2 weeks where I can't use v-ray on my European computers via remote desktop.
My questions:
- Is it somehow easy to transfer (borrow) licences in this situation... ie; a dongle plugged into a PC in Australia, and v-ray running in Europe on the same licence? I can see this being problematic...
- Or is there some other system I should be aware of for this set-up?
- If I buy a new licence (which I would like to avoid), does ChaosGroup permit me to re-sell my second licence when I no longer need it? Do people ever buy second-hand licences?
Any other ideas/tips would be greatly appreciated!!
Many thanks.
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