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#1

The licensing for Zbrush R2 and R3 is a tad over the top. So how does one teach using Zbrush if the licensing fails when a new user logs into a machine.

Student A logs in as george and it crys for the activation so you fix it then
Student B logs in and its broke again.

Times that by 25 students and I become an expert in typing the activation 25 times a night time 16 weeks.

Also the pixologic directory needs SUPER ADMIN rights even to function under a user level so you need to add (everyone) to the rights for that folder.

Which of course as soon as you do that, the licensing breaks again!

Loop

All I ask is stop and think for a second before making a product only good in a single user setting environment.

So am I missing something on system setup here?

#2

This problem is a R2 problem and should be fixed in R3, as the tests we did.

You need to be as an admin on the first launch to activate ZBrush, but you won’t need to have the administrator privileges when it’s activated to makes it working.
The only thing that ZBrush need, is the ability to read / write in its own folder.

The 3.5 R3 installer should take care of the folder permissions, and ZBrush has been tested in muti-users environments.

#3

As Totyo said, R1 and R2 had the issue that you’re describing, but this has been fixed in R3. We have done extensive tests in various environments and operating systems and it has worked every time. R3 needs to be installed and activated by an administrator. It can then be used on that system by any user account.