Any way to preview 5.0 beta?

Hey,

I'm posting to ask if there's anyway to install 5.0 without uninstalling 4.6. I would like to test an import of our project but I would like to do it in confidence that there will be no alterations to my previous unity install and its project settings and files. I'd like to hear some options, if anyone has them. Thanks

 

What platform you are running on ( win ? mac ? ) you can install as many Unity version you want , without interfering between them, just that the process on mac or win differ.
There is I think already a bunch of thread regarding this.

 

windows, I searched..

Edit: side by side were the key words i needed. thank you

 

Then just name you install folder other than "Unity", the default name, when you install it

 

And the licenses wont conflict? I've got pro with team server, guess I'll find out soon but just wondering if it's going to make me activate twice on one computer..

 

It's fine, it shouldn't ask you to activate. Assuming you have a license for 5 (you upgraded or bought it).

 

It asked me to activate again, so 5 definitely uses its own activation files.

 

It's too bad the license manager isn't stand-alone

 

Heh, the standalone licence manager is actually a complaint about certain other software

 

I praise autodesks license manager, just me i guess. Exporting and importing has never failed, though Unity has done a very nice job at giving me full access to the return license function.

But back to topic, I'll let you know if I get asked to activate my license again when I get that far. Have to fix a beta 20 installation first.

 

Not just you. I meant literally exactly what I wrote: There have been complaints about standalone licence managers. Not by all, but some

Anyway, if you have a recently bought licence OR subscribe, you're set for Unity 5. I dunno if 5.x has parallel activations though. That might be a problem if you've already got two 4.x activations, for instance.

 

Sure nuff, if you're installing 5 side by side with 4.x it'll cost you an activation.

Edit: not true

 

Not that sure.

5 is just the beta test and unable to export products you could sell: it would be a bad move from Unity to ask you to give up one activation on a work tool you need while you also need to be aware of the content and features of the next version.

I personally installed Unity 5b on the same computer as my 4.5 and they are both working fine while my second activation code is used on my laptop, but this one is a 3.5 so it may not count.

 

Nope. It doesn't. You can see the current state of activations in your unity profile. You can apparently also reset it from there now in case you need to.

Go to the front page, log in and then go to the store page (don't know why). If you are logged in you can then access "May Account" at the top where you'll find what you bought and how many activations you have left. Also you can disable activations there, it seems. I haven't tried to do that, though. So maybe it doesn't just reset but actually nuke your activations in a huge fiery explosion (... kidding).

And for the record: I also hate standalone license managers. The web based functionality is nice, though.

 

I have 4 and 5 on my laptop and my desktop using my subscriber activation and no problems.

 

No problem here as well. I have Unity 4 and Unity 5 on my windows laptop and both of them on my mac as well without any license trouble. I only own one Unity license.

 

I poked around the licence site, and it looks like Unity 5 simply doesn't count towards the activation count at all.

 

I had to activate every whole version number separately so far. It seems as long as you activate on the same machine there's no problem with it.

Some weeks ago I had to replace hardware and the activations all didn't work any more. So even if each version activates for itself - I guess on the same hardware it does not count as a new acitvation.

 

That's one mystery solved, I guess. Now on to the one about the missing socks.

 

Hey! So it looks like the 5 beta just checks whether or not you're eligible to use it or not without activating the license. Thanks guys!

 

I'm pretty sure it activates it, since on my account page it told me how many computers it was activated on.

 

Have you read what everyone posted here, people are able to activate their licenses over 2 times. That's proof to me that 5 beta does not activate a license, but merely references it.

 

Thats not proof to me, since my account clearly tells me how many computers Unity 5 is activated on, and the number thats shown reflects the reality for me.

 

Just because unity reports that you have used the beta? To confirm, I would like to know if you could install another version of 4 and activate it. But just to download 5 and get a copy of team server unity sent me an invoice with no charge on it. I'm confused why you are so hesitant.

 

I'm not hesitant, I am reporting that my account clearly shows me how many computers I have activated the Unity 5 beta on. I had an outright license for 4 pro, and am using a subscription for 5, so I have two different serial numbers and so its easy for me to see what is what on my account page.

 

Maybe unity installations do use a shared license file. I have 4.6 beta 20 installed and activated, and on the same machine 5 beta 9.. both with team server. I have one activation left. So I could go and install it on a laptop, right now.

1 License.. >2 activations

 

If you have two different licences, that's a whole different thing than activating the same serial in 4 and 5 at the same time

Right now the webpage is actually showing no activations for me, even though that serial has both 4 and 5. Maybe UT messed up.

 

I have about 7 different versions of Unity installed (going back to 3.4) on one computer and there are no issues with activations. If I installed on another computer, it would use another activation. But not on the same computer.

--Eric

 

you forgot to add /thread

thank you eric