at Cinema 4D start, if no valid plugin license is retrieved by on-line querying the Vendor Licensing System, the plugin asks the Customer via a question dialog if a Cinema 4D License Report should be send to the Vendor.

the new Customer buys and download the plugin from Vendor.

With regard to this a potential workflow might be:

at next Cinema 4D start, the plugin license finds, in the searched path(s), the valid license.īoth described scenarios don't rely on any online activation mechanism but extending them to grant this functionality shouldn't be too hard.

the plugin licenses are provided to the Customer and are copied by Customer in the folder searched by the plugin.

the Customer retrieves the generated file and provide it to the Vendor.

at Cinema 4D start, if no valid plugin license is found, the plugin asks the Customer via a question dialog if a C4D License Report should be automatically generated.

the Customer installs the plugin and run Cinema 4D.

the new Customer buys and downloads the plugin from Vendor.

the plugin licenses are provided to the Customer together with the link to download the plugin and are copied by Customer in the folder searched by the plugin.Ī slightly more automated scenario (which is the one adopted in the example below) could be:.

the Vendor receives the report(s) and generates one or more plugin license(s).

the Vendor asks Customer to provide him with one or more Cinema 4D license reports.

the new Customer buys a plugin from Vendor.

The basic workflow can be streamlined as: With Cinema 4D R21 a new licensing workflow has been envisioned for plugin vendors willing to license their product for Cinema 4D.

plugin licenses being provisioned in a LAN environment by either the new MAXON License Server or the RLM Server.plugins to load plugin licenses (either locally or online) and to compare values stored in the license with the values retrieve from the running instance of Cinema.plugin vendors retrieving information about Cinema 4D license in order to hook their licenses to this data.It must be noted that the new mechanism is not replacing the old one and doesn't grant the same level of functionality.

GeGetUserName() (defined in c4d_general.h).ExportLicenses() (defined in c4d_general.h).GetGeneralLicensingInformation() (defined in c4d_general.h).In Cinema 4D R21 the following functions have been introduced and are detailed later on: More specifically the following class has been removed in Cinema 4D R21: This manual contains information with regard to the new Cinema 4D R21 licensing functions that have been introduced to substitute the previous classes / methods available in earlier versions.

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