Maxon Cinema 4d Login

[Macedonio Heninger]

Juststarted working with AfterEffects & interested in working in C4D Lite. When I open a Cinema 4D file, or use FILE > NEW > MAXON CINEMA 4D FILE, the Cinema 4d Launcher window appears. After a moment, a popup from Maxon requires me to register an account on their website. I made sure that I registered on their website with the same login as my Adobe CC account. However, no c4d files can be opened, it asks me to activate a Cinema 4D trial instead of reflecting some kind of Lite license.

I'm not finding much information online about this license manager at all. In all the tutorials that I see, there is absolutely no mention of this License registration or MAXON account requirement - they all seem to just open straight into the 3d editor.

Stuck on the same thing. I wonder if this a Maxon issue instead of Adobe. I'm waiting to hear back from Maxon about why this is. In the meantime, we'll see if anyone else has an answer for this. I will share any information I that I can find, but I haven't been able to find any information online, either yet.

I'm stuck with the same issue- the 'server' box appears and is the only means of activating the license. No other options to log in with my Maxon account or anything, so I have to close. I also don't seem to have .prf files, and have no license files within my Maxon folder. Very fustrating...

EDIT: I've followed what another user mentioned below and working- close AE and Maxon, head over to maxon.net and download the latest full offline installer. Install as default (so it replaces your current Maxon folder). When you relaunch you can now close the Server box, click the 'account' tab (assuming you have a Maxon account), and an option should appear to activate a 'Lite License'. Hope this helps.

You don't register for Lite specifically; just make a free Maxon account. When you've installed the new version open After Effects, go to New -> Maxon Cinema 4D file, and then when the Maxon window appears it should allow you to log in and show you the Lite license.

Don't hold your breath while you're waiting for an answer. I and a large number of others have been asking for Step-by-Step instructions for what needs to be done when running C4D LITE out of After Effects for the first time, getting it licensed correctly, then, when the "trial period" runs out, making sure the LITE version is activated. FIt''s been 2 YEARS and NOTHING FROM MAXON - NOTHING FROM ADOBE to provide CLEAR, PRECISE, STEP-BY-STEP INFORMATION.

Personally, I'm not a Windows user and don't know much about Windows. But since I had a Maxon ticket already open on a similar issue, I went ahead and followed up with your question. Here is the answer from Maxon Tech Support:

This solution does not work. Removing the preferences may get you back to the License Manager home screen but with no license it just fails validation and there is nowhere on the site that allows you to license the lite version.

You may need to include some screenshots (blur any sensitive info) so I can see what you've tried so far. Just to make sure, jeddo7149519, are you registering and licensing the Lite version through My.Maxon.net on your web browser before trying to sign in through Cinema 4D?

Yes I also signed up via the license manager but when I login (on the site or in the license manager) it just says failed, have no licenses... nowhere to register Lite. "Error: Login to Maxon account failed and no offline license found." Furthermore, I never had to register or license Lite to use it before.

For Mark or anyone else who comes along, I got Maxon on the phone (my support ticket with them was going nowhere fast) and they are aware. It is a bug with the version that Adobe has continued to ship out with After Effects. Assuming you received C4D Lite with AE, the solution is to download the offline installer from the Maxon site (the regular site, not my.maxon.net) and just install the newest version on top of the version Adobe installed, then I was able to activate the Lite license. Sounds like it's an issue with both Windows and Mac. As an added bonus, doing it this way now allows me to fire up C4D Lite without having to run AE in the background, which is great. Hope this helps.

In R21, the deadline submission script correctly makes the call but the R21 C4Dcommandline.exe application is now asking to login to my.maxon.net account and is taking down the first license it can get its hands-on, which is the full license, and therefore locking out the other slave and the main c4d machine

when you get stuck in getting your Commandline Render app licensed in R21:

You can either do it the manual way by just alling them, or better, follow this articles to automatically use the license servers:

Maxon License server:

Detect Maxon License Server

RLM for Cinema 4D Commandline Render:

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