Licensing#
Plans#
You can find an overview and purchase licenses for the available plans here.
All plans use the same installer, which can be downloaded from here.
The following licensing plans are available for Prism Pipeline 2:
Free#
The Free version of Prism Pipeline 2 is open source and licensed under the LGPL v3 license.
You can use this version for free in commercial and non-commercial projects.
The Free version includes the Prism core application and the following plugins:
Support questions can be directed to the community in the Discord server.
Plus#
Prism Plus includes everything in the Free version and additionally provides access to the following plugins:
The installer for Prism Plus is the same as for the Free plan. The additional plugins can be downloaded in the Prism Hub.
Prism Plus also adds the options to configure Prism state defaults and to manage state presets in the State Manager and in the Project Settings.
This plan comes with technical support via email and Discord.
Pro#
Prism Pro includes everything included in the Prism Plus plan.
Additionally the Pro plan grants early access to new features and plugins before they become available to other users.
Currently the After Effects Plugin is available in early access.
This plans also provides access to offline licensing.
The installer for Prism Pro is the same as for the Free and Plus plan.
Pro users will also get access to new plugins and features before other users.
This plan provides the fastest support response times and comes with video call and remote login support.
Educational#
We offer discounted licenses for universities and educational use. Please contact us for details.
Non-Commercial#
We love to support Non-Commercial projects with discounts on a case by case basis. Please contact us with your project details.
Other Services#
Besides the licenses we also offer customized training as well as custom TD support agreements.
These agreements can be designed to your needs, but usually include complete support during your project from the initial setup, troubleshooting and optimization of your scenefiles up to custom feature development.
Please contact us for details.
Purchasing Licenses#
You can purchase licenses on the Plans Page on the Prism website.
Chooese between Plus and Pro as well as monthly and annual licenses.
You cannot have Plus and Pro licenses at the same time, but you can use Prism Free licenses in combination with your Plus or Pro licenses.
It’s possible to have annual as well as monthly licenses.
For that you need to go through the checkout on the plans page a second time to start a second subscription with a different payment interval.
Changing the License Count#
You can increase or decrease the amount of your licenses at any time during your subscription.
Go to the My Subscriptions area on the website and click on the
Manage Subscriptions button.This will bring you to a page were you can manage your subscriptions, payment details and invoices.
Click on
Update Subscription and change the number of licenses to your desired amount.Increasing the license count will charge you immediately the costs for the remaining days of the additional licenses until the next renewal date of your subscription.
You’ll see a breakdown of the calculation and all costs before you confirm the change.
Decreasing the license count will calculate the unused time of the removed licenses and calculate how much you already paid for these time.
The unused amount will be added as credit to your Prism account and will automatically be applied for your next payments.
License Management#
Prism licenses are connected to your Prism Account and managed by an online licensing system.
One Prism account can purchase and manage multiple Prism licenses.
Each studio/team should use one Prism account and all users in the team will acquire a license from the same Prism account.
When you launch Prism for the first time, you will be asked to login with your Prism account.
After logging in with your Prism account or an Access Token, Prism will use one available license from your Prism account.
You can login with the same Prism account on multiple computers as long as there are licenses available in your account.
Network Connection#
For acquiring and validating the license, an internet connection is required.
Prism grants you a 6 hours grace period in which you can use Prism even if the network connection is temporarily not available.
For permanent offline usage please see here.
License Usage#
Each workstation, which uses Prism simultaneously will require one license.
If multiple users are using the same workstation after each other, only one license will be required.
It’s possible to logout and release a license to then use that license on another workstation.
To see how many licenses you have available you can go to the My Subscriptions area.
Alternatively you can view your licenses inside of the Prism Desktop app:
Open the Prism Settings window.
Under “Users” -> “General” you can click on the gear button in the Prism account section.
This will open a new window where you can see your available licenses and which workstation is currently using a license.
You can logout license users and if you have multiple license types available you can also acquire a different license type in this window using the context menu.
Alternatively you can view and manage your license usage here.
Using Access Tokens#
Access tokens provide a way to login into Prism without a username and password.
This is the recommended way to share licenses from a Prism account across a studio.
The access token can be used to logging on other computers using a license from the account who generated the access token.
By sharing this access token with team members you can give them access to licenses connected to your Prism account, without sharing the account password.
Users who logged in using an access token don’t have permissions to view and manage the account licenses and access keys.
An access token is an automatically generated token consisting of letters and numbers.
Generating Access Tokens
To generate a new access token go to your My Subscriptions area.
Alternatively you can also create Access Tokens after you logged in into the Prism desktop app with your user account name and password.
Open the Prism User Settings and in the “General” tab you can click the gear button to open the “Manage Licenses” window.
In the “Access Tokens” tab you can create and remove access tokens for your Prism account.
Login with an Access Token
To login using an access token, click the “Change log in method” button in the Prism login window and select “Login with access token”.
License File#
A license file can be used to specify license information for one or multiple workstations and to skip the manual login in the login dialog.
This can be useful when automating the setup of workstations like on a renderfarm.
To use a license file set the environment variable
PRISM_LICENSE_FILE to a json filepath, where you want to save the license file. For example C:/files/prism_licenses.json.This file doesn’t need to exist yet.
There are two ways how to add content to the license file.
The easier way is to launch Prism with the
PRISM_LICENSE_FILE environment variable defined.Prism will then create the file if it doesn’t exist and add it’s mac address to it.
The other option is to manually add the mac addresses of your workstations to the json file.
The structure of the license file looks like this:
{
"auto_add_workstations": false,
"default": {
"access_token": "",
"preferred_license": "Plus"
},
"workstations": {
"F2:C9:AB:0A:7A:29": {
"name": "WS-001",
"access_token": "",
"preferred_license": "Plus"
},
"FB:97:23:4D:6D:55": {
"name": "WS-002",
"access_token": "",
"preferred_license": "Free"
}
}
}
You can edit the file in a text editor and fill out the
access_token field for the workstation.To generate an access token see here.
You can also specify an
access_token under the default key.It will be used by workstations, which don’t have an
access_token assigned under the workstations key.Only access tokens can be used in license files at this point.
Usernames and passwords are not supported because of security considerations as the license file is not encrypted.
auto_add_workstations can be set to true to add workstations automatically to the list of workstations, when they are accessing the license file. This option is available since v2.0.7. In previous versions it was the default behavior, that workstations were added to the file automatically.If you are using offline licensing you can specify an
activation_code in place of the access_token.The
preferred_license key can be used to let workstations acquire a specific license type if a license of that type is available.Offline Licensing#
The offline licensing is available in the Prism Pro plan.
After purchasing Pro licenses please contact us to get access to a specific offline installer.