1 Education subscription consists of 4 product licenses:

1 Houdini FX Education license
10 Renderer (Indie/Apprentice) licenses
10 Karma (Indie/Apprentice) licenses
10 Education Engine licenses

What each product license does:

FX Houdini Education

• To open the Houdini FX interface.

Renderer and Karma

• To use the Mantra renderer or the Karma renderer.
• To render within Houdini, to render a picture, or to use Mplay.
• You should hold as many of these licenses as you have total machines, (workstations + render machines).
• These licenses are free.

Houdini Engine Education

• To use Houdini non-graphically.
• Command-line renders and simulations on remote render machines.
• Open pre-made Houdini Digital Assets (HDAs) within Maya, 3dsMax, Unreal, Unity and C4D.
• You should hold as many Houdini Engine Education licenses as you have renderfarm machines.
• A machine that already has the Houdini Education license installed does not need a Houdini Engine Education license. Save this license for a render node.

Note

Houdini licenses are bound to the machine name and hardware.
Changing the machine name or hardware will invalidate the licenses. Please see How to release licenses.