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Unity Pro Trial IF I reformat my PC every month?
Just curious, is it possible to keep using Unity Pro Trial IF I am willing to reformat my PC and reinstall Unity Pro every month?
I don't need to publish games on app store and I am not planning to monetize anything from using unity. I just need Unity Pro mainly for academic research purpose, because Kinect V2 plugin requires Unity Pro.
If unity does a hash of some sort based off hardware identifiers(like windows does and binds it to the key), then no, if there isn't a scheme for identifying the hard ware and its only say an email address/account, then perhaps.
@moses I guess Unity does a hash based on hardware and OS combination as I remember Graham stating it somewhere as an answer (just can not find it atm).
@harshad$$anonymous$$ which hardware and OS combination does Unity checked? What if I change from Win 8.1 Pro to Win 8.1 Enterprise, will it works for another month?
How they perform a hash is confidential to Unity so I don't know much about it plus no one from Unity is going to tell you about it. Also if someone is using some trick to do it they are not gonna reveal it, at least on the UA or Unity forum. One way is just to find out by yourself.
I'm afraid that won't work, you can get a non-commercial student version of Unity Pro plus all add-ons for £99. http://www.studica.com/uk/en/unity/unity-pro-5-game-development-student-license/u5pro-2014-cs.html
Thanks for the link, I am aware of the studica discount. But I am not sure if I am able to get funding for this reason. By the way, how are you sure that it won't work? Any proof or experience on that? Did you tried it personally? What causing it to not working? $$anonymous$$g. hardware binding?
@tcboy88 Josh Naylor is a Unity member so he does not need to try it personally to know if it works or not. ;-)
If he says it won't work then you better trust him.
@harshad$$anonymous$$ yeah.. just want to make sure 100% that it won't work. So I can save the hassle of reformating my PC lol. Btw I am curious if anyone else tried it before.
@tcboy88, at this point you might want to chill on this topic, you are on Unity's site, you are talking about technically s$$anonymous$$ling, please consider that.
