Ok so im about to graduate from college in a few weeks and was thinking about purchasing 3ds max 2010 for a student discount website such as http://www.academicsuperstore.com/products/239377/3ds+max/986841#show_eligibility_details Now i was wondering if the licensing on these programs is full and would allow me to do…
I had a couple of student versions of 3ds Max (6 and 7, I think?) and the books are huge. student licenses are for noncommercial work. While you could buy a student license and do freelancing with it, that is no more legal than if you just pirated the whole thing. Back when I was looking into it the conversions were about…
Be sure you're not buying through one of those websites that offer cheapo software thats not really legit. Student/Educational version does not allow for freelance, its like that since dinosaurs and will until rupture :)
autodesk officially allows legit upgrade from student version to commercial version at reduced cost ( I think 1000€ or 1000$ dont remember exactly)... It obviously works only once. (saw if for Maya and 3dsmax) so its not into the multithousand value anymore for starters.
I used to see a academic Max license conversion to professional Max license on those type of sites. It was quite a good deal too if I remember correctly something like, ~$300 for the student license and ~$1500 for the conversion. That's like half off a pro license straight from Autodesk. You might want to look into it.