Online Licensing
Our products have the ability to connect directly to our server (ephere.com) to license themselves without requiring any additional installation of a license server. This means that once you install any of our products, if you have an internet connection with access to ephere.com, you won't be prompted for licensing at all. The product will acquire and release the license as needed automatically.
Releasing online licenses
The license is released when one of the following scenarios happens:- The plugin is unloaded inside the host application (for example, Ornatrix is unloaded in Maya).
- The host application is closed.
- 15 minutes passes since the plugin is used by a closed application (time out period, for example if host application quits unexpectedly).
Mixing online and offline licenses
You can "borrow" licenses for offline usage, not requiring an active connection to ephere.com. To do this simply follow the steps for floating license server installation. Borrowed licenses will subtract from your overall available license count. If you only borrow some of the overall licenses you can use the rest (non-borrowed) of the licenses using online licensing. To return borrowed licenses simply release them from your licenses page.