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This page guides users who have opted for Chaos plans with a floating license.

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If you don’t own a Chaos license yet, you can browse our product catalog.

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What are Floating Licenses

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This page guides users who are connecting remotely to a Premium Chaos License or a Chaos Enscape 4.1 Floating license.

What are Premium and Floating Licenses

Premium and Floating Licenses can be shared between multiple users and devices, or they can be used locally - similar to the Solo and Fixed Licenses.When doing a shared setup for a Premium/Floating license, the license holder needs to install the license locally on at least one machine in the network. Installing the license happens automatically when you perform a default Chaos product installation. If you only need to install the License Server application separately, see the Installation page. This machine can use the license, but it also serves as a connection point for others to connect to the license. on a first-come, first-served basis and don’t need to be assigned to an individual user.

They are are ideal for creating a pool of licenses that can be used by multiple users, who do not need to have dedicated access to our products.

Sharing can be done in one of two ways:

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  • The license holder can give out their IP address to others in the local network, and they can connect using the remote license setup.
  • The license holder can assign licenses through the my.chaos portal. This method allows the license holder to manage the licenses centrally; no other user can adjust the license settings.

Using a Premium/Floating license locally requires installing your Chaos product with the "Local License" setting in the installer and logging in with your Chaos account credentials when prompted.

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  • If you are the license holder, you can install the license locally on your machine. In this case, follow the Solo and Fixed Licenses workflow.
  • If you are not the license holder, ask an Administrator to assign a license to you via the my.chaos portal. You can see how on the My Chaos Portal Guide.

Keep in mind that a single license can be used by a single user at a time. You need to add more licenses if you wish multiple users to work at the same time.

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To create a setup for sharing Premium/Floating licenses, please see the Admin Workflow page.

  • Cloud-Based Floating Licensing (recommended): The administrator shares a pool of Floating licenses with the Organization's Users, and when they log in with their Chaos accounts, they can use the floating licenses through the cloud from any location. See how to set it up in the Cloud-Based Floating License section of this page.
  • Remote Licensing: The administrator installs the Chaos License Server on a centrally accessible machine within a local network. The users will need to configure their Chaos product to connect to this centralized network location to access a license. This method is explained in the Installing the Product for Network Floating Licensing page.


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Cloud-Based Floating License Setup

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You Administrator needs to add you to their Organization. Once added, you will receive an email confirmation. If you do not yet have a Chaos Account, you can create one by following the link in the email invitation.

Once Floating License Sharing is enabled for the Organization, any user in the Organization can use the shared licenses by installing their Chaos product with all the default installation options and signing in to the product with their Chaos Account.

See the full setup details for Administrators on the Cloud-Based Floating Licensing page.


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Install the Chaos product(s) your Organization has a license for.

Proceed with a default installation.

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Install your Chaos product with the default installation options


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Your Chaos product will ask you to log in when this is required to activate the product.

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  • Enter your Chaos credentials.
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If you don’t own a Chaos license yet, click this button and scroll down to select from the available software catalog.

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Corona Activation
If you are activating a Chaos License for Corona, please see the Activating Corona for 3ds Max or Activating Corona for Cinema 4D pages, depending on your integration.

Enscape Activation

When connecting remotely to a Floating License for Enscape 4.1, follow the step-by-step guide specifically for Enscape in the Enscape First Steps article. If you are using Enscape 4.0 or older, see the Enscape License Activation article.

Activating the License

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You can use your Chaos account credentials.

Your existing Enscape, V-Ray, Corona, Anima or Veras logins are all Chaos accounts and work for all our products.

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activating an Enscape Floating license, see the How to set up Floating Licenses in Enscape 4.1 and onwards article for a more detailed guide.

part of a team - make sure that your administrator has added you to their Chaos Organization and has assigned a license assigned to your account.

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If you are connecting to a Premium/Floating License, which is not located on your machine, you are using a Remote Licensing setup. The remote license server is typically managed by your IT administrator or license holder and activated with the Chaos account that holds the Premium/Floating licenses.

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You can close the login page after seeing the confirmation for a successful login.

You can now start using your Chaos product

  • Ask your license holder for their machine's IP address.
    • Download your Chaos product(s) and run the installation wizard. After accepting the End User License Agreement, you need to select the Advanced installation option

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    • At the Licensing step, select Remote. In the Primary License Server field, type the server IP address that your license holder gave you. At the end, add the :30304 port.
    • Continue to finish the installation.
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    Re-configuring your License

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    If you have upgraded your Chaos License plan, or if you misconfigured your license settings, here is how you can re-configure your Chaos license setup: