Licensing Enquiry

zpavlov

.We're interested in using spine, and I believe we will end up using an enterprise version, but I had a few questions:

-What do you consider a seat? Editor users? Developers using unity? We have 1, maybe 2 artists at most who will be using it, but numerous developers who may be running products containing the runtime
-We're a little uncomfortable with investing in the full enterprise cost without verifying that we can use the workflow/exporting (this is mostly for the artists. I'm very confident in the performance of the product). What do you recommend we do? Could we purchase a pro license, then upgrade to enterprise if it suits our needs?

BinaryCats

I think it would be how many computers have spine installed on them.

chrisj

For us, developers and testers who only validate data created by the artists use the SkeletonViewer java app

http://esotericsoftware.com/spine-skeleton-viewer

and our animators use Spine itself. I won't comment on the upgrade issue though (we have an enterprise license).

Nate

We had finished discussion with zpavlov via email a few days ago. I forgot to also respond here. Licensing discussion is usually best done via email.

Spine Enterprise seats are the number of computers which have Spine installed on them. You do not need to purchase seats for developers using the Spine Runtimes, though occasionally developers may want to open a Spine project and make small changes. Developers can use the Spine Trial or Skeleton Viewer to open a Spine project in a read only mode, eg to check on the name of bones, animations, etc.