Licensing Nuke Non-commercial on Windows

Subscription licensing differs from traditional node locked or floating licenses in that a single license, or entitlement, is valid on any authorized device up to the entitlement's maximum number of activations.

• An Entitlement represents the right to run a Foundry product for a set amount of time on a set number of devices.

• An Authorized Device is a recognized device, such as a desktop computer, on which entitlements can be activated.

For example, if an Entitlement for Nuke has five activations, you can use Nuke on five separate Authorized Devices simultaneously. If you want to activate another device, you have to deactivate an existing one, but you can activate and deactivate devices as often as you like.

To get started with Nuke Non-commercial, follow these steps:

1.   Create a Foundry account using a valid email address on our website, https://www.foundry.com/user/register
2.   Launch Nuke in non-commercial mode as described under Launching on Windows.

A Licensing dialog displays, similar to regular licensing. Nuke Non-commercial is free, but your entitlement only contains two activations.

3.   Click Authorise Device.
4.   Enter your account email address and password and then click Authorise Device.
5.   A subscription license is created in your home directory: C:\Users\<username>\FoundryLicensing\<SystemID>

Note:  Replace <username> and <SystemID> with the current user and the MAC address of the device, respectively.

The license looks something like this: c58edf7e-17ab-435b-8d8a-b3a9b347ab11.lic

6.   Once the license is installed, click Launch to start using Nuke.

Note:  On Windows, there is a known issue with user names containing non-ASCII characters causing licensing to fail. If a licensing error similar to the following displays:
Unable to create subscription license directory: C:\Users\Zoë Hernández\FoundryLicensing\
Try changing the license directory to an alternate location using the FN_SUBSCRIPTION_LICENSE_DIR environment variable. See Environment Variables for more information.

7.   If you need to deactivate an entitlement or deauthorize a device, navigate to Help > License and, click:

• Deactivate Nuke to reclaim one of your entitlements,

• Deauthorize Device to reclaim your existing Foundry entitlements on this device and stop additional ones running, or

• Deauthorize All Devices to reclaim your existing Foundry entitlements on all devices associated with your account, and stop additional ones running.