Hello,
my idea ist that Flame Free Trial does include/offer every feature of the regular version of Flame, but cannot be used for paid work.
Does this correspond to the facts?
Thank’s for your feedback!
How could that ever be regulated. It would be abused in seconds would it not.
Other apps have solved that by restricting renders or including water marks for rendered material. So you can use it to learn the app, or see if an app can handle a specific job, but you cannot use it to produce client work.
Other apps like Nuke Indie go one step further to encrypt project files made with the indie version and which cannot be opened with the regular version. So the Indie version cannot be used as a cheaper assist seat.
For Flame this would be easy to do. Remove the time restriction on the free trial. Put a big water mark on every render. And mark the projects as free trial in a way that they cannot be opened in the paid version.
All very simple and very effective.
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It would be nice not to have to pay full price just to stay sharp while you’re not booked. Wasn’t there some talk of offering a VPN license through Academy Pro?
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Yea doesnt seem like any of this is part of autodesks big plan, probably because its hard to do with CAD Data?
i would love this, i use nuke Noncommercial all the time for random stuff around the house … .
That used to exist. When I was first learning almost a decade ago I had it on my Mac book. Don’t know with what version they ended it.
I think the problem is that things like 30 day trials are managed centrally by the identity team. This is not up to the Flame team. And the rest of the company doesn’t seem to care much…
FDphd had an affordable VPN Flame to use for educational purposes, but it vanished. I thought this was because Academy Pro was working on some exclusivity deal, but nothing has materialized. I’d love to pay learning fees to learn and more than happy to pay full rate when I’m booked. Hell, I’d pay it directly to Autodesk. Seems like it could be win-win. I’m up for any reasonable solution.
Use Flex tokens. It’s a decent compromise for occasional use and even learning. Just have to palm so you utilize well.
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Wow! - what a great deal for students and schools
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I know some particular people still on an edu license doing commercial work nearly a decade out of school.
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in germany paying for college and getting a edu license is cheaper than a flame subscription like 100:1 
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Which is unfortunate. Whatever you think about corporations and their decisions, it’s never a justification to cheat to get even or game the system to your advantage. You only spoil it for everyone else.
Run an honest business or you’re not better than the ones you complain about.
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for my $0.02 - I’ve known @ALan for over a quarter of a century and in all that time, nobody has ever doubted his honesty.
In fact, it’s his honesty that we all celebrate - the brazen disapproval of the empty / broken software/hardware promises, and the generosity of openly sharing solutions for the problems that are encountered.
The fact that he’s only alluding to persons unknown that violate trust, and not whistleblowing tells you about who he is.
@Alan - integrity above all…
Love you brother - happy holidays
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Easy there. My note didn’t address Alan or suggest that he was talking about himself, but rather some unnamed 3rd person.
@allklier - you absolutely did not suggest any wrongdoing.
And I truly celebrate that Autodesk provide tools for learning - I think that was the original point of this thread.
If you’re at school - dig in.
If you’re in between roles - go back to school.
If this had been available in 1994 I would have got completely stuck in.
Equally if this had been 1994 I would not have had the trust, or the money, or the government security clearance to buy an SGI, so there’s that.
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