I am interested in trying out Unity in a business way, I’d like to visualize some projects the company I work for has engineered. This company earns more than 100k a year, so I am not allowed to use the personal version. However I can’t find a way to install a Trial version of Unity Pro. Today I installed the personal version hoping to be able to modify my license to “Pro Trial” as stated here Trial version: Basic to Pro. - Questions & Answers - Unity Discussions. But unfortunatelly I don’t see this option.
I don’t want to violate the Unity regulations, so if I can’t use a Trial-version, I’ll delete the personal version.
He didn’t say but doesn’t that just bump up the limit to 200K? Presumably, unless the company is really small that wouldn’t be an option either.
A year of plus is $420
A year of pro is $1500
Obviously any company over the caps those dollar amounts are fairly small and probably enough to buy for the period of time for his experiments. That being said a lot of times larger companies have a lot of other BS besides the employee asking for permission for that being part of the budget. Things like approving the software for security compliance, adding the software to network builds for company deployed hardware, etc. Things that make it take forever and make it way harder than it should be.
If neither of those are an option if the company makes more than 200K if he found an old trial from Unity 4 era would that work? I don’t remember the terms on the trials. Just in case he’s looking to essentially use it in the corporate environment but not have to involve his superiors.
Thanks for all the replies. The company I work for is indeed bigger than 200k and I don’t want to violate the EULA. So I will reach out to support and see if they can help me. I’ll let you guys know what comes out of this.
Hopefully when you contact support they still give out trials for 5.x. Just in case they don’t the instructions on the trial that you posted do apply to Unity 4.x so that would be an option as well as long as you weren’t looking to use the Global Illumination or other newer features. I did look through the EULA for 4.x and while you can’t publish there aren’t restrictions for revenue on the 4.x pro trial. Obviously it will only last for 30 days though.
I would hope that support would have a 5.x trial though for the very situation you have so that isn’t necessary.
It’s a 100k total revenue. And he clearly stated he didn’t want to violate the Eula. Lying about your usage would be just that.
IIRC, something similar like this came up before, they do still have some sort of trial version they use for some situations, probably for ones just like this. I’m sure Sales will find a good solution for this.
A lot must vary between companies. I’ve gotten nasty emails the same day I installed software without an appropriate lisence.
Working for a company as an employee and a contractor is a bad idea. This tends to break all sorts of labour laws. It muddies the relationship, which can cause issues.
He is not. It is for work, he already said that. And it wouldn’t matter, the work is for the company. People don’t work and freelance for the same company on the same project at the same time, that would be silly.
You can but OP said he was going to visualize some company projects. That is clearly work for while he is in an employee role not a freelancer. Hence the company needs a license.
Yeah, it does. The software makes a big difference too.
The policies are basically always strict to CYA but when getting a new license for something is a 6 week affair then people tend to go around it in the meantime if theres near-zero impact for almost all cases.
