If you are running a student lab environment with Rhino 8 using a LAN Zoo and want to use Karamba3D 3.1.4 for Rhino 8 NETCore, is it true there is no Karamba3D “Network” license or Cloud Zoo license option possible, that the only option that would work(?) is Karamba3D standalone licensing? The documentation seems written for an earlier version (2.2.0) and is unclear. One section says: “A single network license allows one user to run Karamba3D on one computer at a time within a shared network. Licenses are installed on the McNeel Zoo 6 or above**…” Another section states “A network license can only be installed with the McNeel Zoo 6 (or 7) License network server (only for Rhino7 or Rhino6)”, neither of which support Rhino 8. And then “Karamba3D does not require Rhino to be running with a Zoo License for it to run on the Zoo Server. However if Rhino is running on the Network Server, then Karamba3D needs to run from the same license server.”. Do standalone licenses work in this case?.
We do not offer standalone licenses anymore. Licenses are issued as either on McNeel Cloud Zoo or LAN (Network) - Get Started - Karamba3D
Just to confirm, then, Karamba3D doesn’t support Rhino 8 running on a LAN Zoo, true? So the only way to provide Karamba3D in Rhino 8 is by using a Cloud Zoo with Rhino and Karamba3D’s Cloud Zoo licensing? Cloud Zoo licensing doesn’t work well in a population with a large number (hundreds) of users – there’s overhead in managing user access, there’s the consumption of multiple licenses as people change machines without logging out of the Zoo, and it allows installation and use on personal machines, ie. “free Rhino for students”. What’s the thinking on a “Zoo 8” LAN Zoo plug-in?
The LAN licenses work for Zoo 6 and above. There has been no change with our licenses for network licenses.