Functional differences - desktop vs. perpetual license

[Ingomann]

Hello,

we just started a tryout of smoke 2015.

One thing I could not yet find out is:

Are there any differences in the funcionality between the desktop license and the perpetual license ?

Thanks a lot in advance for your answer.

Ingo

[fred.warren]

Brian Mulligan did a good job listing the differences here:

http://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/autodesk-smoke-2015-and-flame-assist-on-mac-what-does-it-really-mean...

Please note that since then the Sparks support has been re-introduced in Smoke Desktop Extension 1.

fred

[Ingomann]

Thanks a lot.

So, if we don't have flame, but only using smoke on one only mac, there will be no remarkable difference between perpetual and desktop license ?

Greetings

Ingo

[chismoke]

You are correct...it is less than remarkable.

[waltersoyka]

Assuming you don't use Sparks, I think that other new features in Extension 1 (only available on Desktop Subscription), timeline Matchbox and timeline LUTs, are more significant than they may seem at first glance.

w.

[jkfriesen]

For what it's worth doesn't SP2 (perpetual sub) have Sparks compatibility? I don't use Sparks but noticed a Sparks button in SP2. This would make the only differences being Matchbox in the Timeline and the LUT editor, the latter being a significant difference in my opinion.