Exploiting 3dsMax Monthly Commercial Subscription?

dinoboy123

Hey everyone, I was wondering if people were able to save thousands of dollars and use the 3dsMax monthly license to create commercially useable assets for only a few months, rather than paying ~4k for a permanent license. I currently use blender for all of my game assets, but cryblend currently does not support animations for cryengine.

I figure I can do all of my character modeling in blender, then export it over to 3ds max which I will have a 1 month commercial license for and do the rigging, and then export the character file . Would this be a legal method of making commercially useable assets on the cheap?

Thanks for any advice!

-Andrew

SonicBlue

You paid for the license, even if it's only a month, there's no problems at all, I think they publicized the thing just to do that, you pay to have the rights to use the software when you need it.

dinoboy123

Sounds right to me.  I'm just very nervous dealing with Autodesk.  I know that if you create anything on a student license and then buy a commercial license, all that content is invalid and still not useable commercially since it was originally created using the student version.  I love blender now, but Autodesk's extreme cost is what forced me to switch in the first place.  

SonicBlue

With the subscription you are using the commercial version, the files shouldn't be watermarked and I don't think they time bomb if you saved them previously and you don't have a valid license activated.

If CryEngine is not a forced requirement, there's Unreal Engine 4 which is free and supports FBX file formats that works fine with Blender.

dinoboy123

Thanks for the awesome advice! I sent an email to autodesk confirming that I can just use a 1 month license to finalize some of my models, but I think it should be ok.  I've been using cryengine for about 2 years now so I'm sticking with it to the end.  If you're interested in the game development feel free to check out some of my youtube updates.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHjlqO6FwsI

SonicBlue

Sure!

They are selling that kind of licensing system, so it would have been strange if you couldn't use the files made with it after the license expires.