Hey, I’m new to these boards and I have a question of sorts. I was selected to be the main animator for my team’s animation. I’ve been working on an idea for about 2 weeks now. However, my school’s computers are sooo slooooow! I’m trying to run 3dstudio max on a 400mhtz computer with a generic video card. I’ve made some relatively complex scenes, but it takes so long to move around. I’m not going to even talk about rendering! Worst thing is, there is no way our district is going to get us anything. Miami public schools are terrible, or atleast mine is. I want to install 3dstudio max on my home computer (three weeks ago for my birthday I got a new 1.5 AMD with a geForce 3 64mb=) =) =). I’ve talked to my principal, but, going back to my district, it’s ‘against the law’ for us to take the software home. They have the cd’s tightly locked up. We’re not even allowed to touch them!
Going back to my question: the ‘license’ between Autodesk and FIRST, is it really just for use in the school on one computer like my principal says? Or does Autodesk let us install it at our home computers. I’d think in order to give everyone a fair chance, Autodesk would give FIRST some kind of special agreement to let us take 3dstudio max home and install on more than one computer, as long as it’s being used for the FIRST competition. Am I right, or am I stuck using a 400mhtz?
dude, just bring yer box to school and install there, and delete it offa the 400. i know how tough it is to work with a crappy comp/school district. yeah max is hardcore bloatware… another option is h4xing yer school comp open and slaping in yer ram and vid board, unless you are running like fotress or novell, it should work.
Actually, I’m having the same problem, just our team just got our software Sunday (don’t ask, long story) and we might get the district to pay for better hardware. By ‘might’, I mean in 6 weeks, we’ll have the go to use our club funds to buy anything we want. By club funds, I mean empty fumes, of course.
Zennin, I take it from your post autodesk is being bleh and making the license for 1 one, school-owned computer, and we’re specifically not allowed to take it and install it on our own machines? I mean, I don’t have have a 1.5 geForce3, but my 733 (soon to be OCed higher once I get the cooling in place) 512ram geForce256 32megs system IS better than what the school has now.
actually the school has no vested interest in the software-
unless the school give the team money specifically
the sofware is the property of the “team” and can be taken home under the academic use clause, used by most software companies
this allows you to use one copy of the software at work (school" and have one copy of the saw at you home
this does not break any existing Federal copyright structures (states or local communities may have differend standards)
I have passed this thru the school lawyers and is permissable
Doesn’t 3ds Max require the licenses to be registered now?
I read somewhere in the 3ds Max documentation that there is a “Portable License Utility” that allows you to take your registered license from computer to computer. Only one computer is active at a time, though.
Also of note: you have 15 days after installing the software to authorize it with a proper license.
If you have last year’s copy of MAX3.1 you can take it home and use the hardware lock on your machine there to to do the basic meshes and open them through 4.2 at school. Not a perfect solution, but it’s probably the best you can do.
