Batch render with educational license?

[animationE2NYX]

Hi, I see educational institutions now have free access to Arnold in Maya 2018, however the batch render still watermarks. Is this by design?

Thanks.

[Stephen.Blair · Accepted solution]

Educational institutions can get an Arnold license. The Arnold license is used when you batch render.

Did you go to the Autodesk Education Portal and get an Arnold serial number, and then generate a network license? And then set up the Autodesk Network License Manager (on Windows) or lmgrd (OSX, Linux), and configure the client machines so they can find the license server?

[animationE2NYX]

Hi, thanks for the quick response. Can this be done on stand-alone machines? Our Macs are currently not a network.

[Stephen.Blair]

No, there's no standalone Arnold licensing. It's always network licensing.

[animationE2NYX]

Ah ok - Thanks for the info!

[ben.fischler]

As mentioned, to request Arnold Educational licenses your school must request them via the Autodesk Educational Portal here: https://www.autodesk.com/education/free-software/arnold#

[Anonymous]

@Alec Parkin, you can still render a sequence of frames without a watermark at full quality and resolution, just not using "Batch Render". To do this, go to the rendering menu, go to "Render" > "Render Sequence".

[sparfis]

if I buy one month of arnold will it work in maya student?

[Stephen.Blair]

Sure, why not. An Arnold license doesn't know anything about the host application and is completely independent of any licensing for the host application.

Please ask a new question next time, instead of posting a question as an answer.