IKinema RunTime available to small and indie studios for £99

[anonymous_user_5695e6d6]

@uexilon;682482

Hey

expanding on the Question of Jihed…

Our small team just tried to implement iKinema for VR. After some time playing around with settings and your demo scenes, it was quite easy to implement.

However… We ran into an issue with working together on the same project using source control. Since I implemented the iKinema Indie Runtime plugin (using UE 4.14.3 Binary Version) no one else is able to open the project anymore as UE4 will simply crash on startup. I downloaded the Trial on a second Computer that crashed before and after installing the plugin on that machine, the project just worked fine (nothing else changed). So I understand that you would node lock the plugin… But the only one using and building the project is me.

I would understand if it would just pop up a message saying the plugin won’t work on this machine and everything related to editing iKinema will no longer work… but completly making the project crash (whether intended or not) on startup is annoying and risky (what would happen if Trial stops and it was still implemented? Project simply lost?).

We are students and it makes quite a difference whether we have to pay 100£ so that I as programmer can work with iKinema and build the project or we have to buy 3-4 License for people that never even touch anything related to iKinema (400£ +).

So… do we now need a License for our Level Designer, Sound designer, etc. just so they can open up the project and work on their parts? Or is there any easy way to work around that issue? (maybe having a non activated iKinema plugin installed on all other machines so it just won’t work but still be able to start up without crashing?)

Regards

When you start up the project on an unlicensed machine it should just give you the option to disable the plugin in that instance without any crashes. Do you have any info about the crash you are getting? Anything in the logs etc. I will test on this end. (Also, make sure you are using the latest version of the plugin for your version of unreal from our site. There were some bug fixes that could have been the issue).

As an immediate work around, make sure there is a copy of the plugin in the project for everyone who uses the project. They will be prompted to enter a key when they load unreal, just accept the trial license that it defaults to. If the license has expired, the project will still load but with all RunTime features disabled.