If we want to send XMesh Saving jobs to Deadline, presumibly we need to install the Saver on these blades. Do we need a license per render blade? Or are network XMesh Savers not limited to licenses?
Does max need to run in workstation mode for it to be able to save out information?
Thank you for your questions!
Yes, you will need a license for each render blade that is saving at a time.
No, 3ds Max does not need to run in workstation mode to save information. The XMesh Saver can run in render/slave mode or in workstation mode.
Please note that Loaders do not require a license.
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There is one important detail - XMesh Saver only pulls a license WHILE it is saving.
In other words, let’s say you have one floating license and XMesh Saver is installed on 2 workstations and one network machine.
Let’s assume that two artists launch 3ds Max on their workstations - at this point NO license is pulled.
Then one of them presses the SAVE… button in the XMesh Saver UI - a license is pulled during the progress bar display, but the moment it is done or cancelled, the license is returned.
The second user can use the same license as long as the first one is not saving at that very moment. Both can have the XMesh Saver open and prepare the saving or submit jobs to Deadline - only during the actual saving will they request a license. If a saving job is running on Deadline, neither of the two artists would be able to save XMesh files, but both could prepare and submit more jobs to Deadline since the submission does not require a license, only the actual saving does.
So it is possible to juggle the XMesh Saver license within the office, but you cannot have more than one machine saving at any given time if you have only one license.
Is it a license per machine or license per slave instances? So if you had an 8-core machine, could you send 8 baking tasks to one machine with one license or would it need 8 licenses?
I believe the license is per-machine. So in your case, the machine would need one license.