France
Joined: Nov 7, 2005
Post Count: 9177
Status:
Offline
Re: SH3D Paid Version
I won't add the plug-ins to the paid version for the following reasons: - As I don't own copyrights on them, I can't distribute them under an other license than the GNU General Public License under which most of them are available. Both paid versions are distributed under a proprietary license because it's not possible to distribute GNU GPL paid software on the Mac App Store and Amazon Store, and it's not permitted to include GNU GPL libraries / plug-ins in a proprietary software. - Plug-ins are not translated in all the languages available in Sweet Home 3D, and many users run a version of the software localized in their language (fortunately, translators contribution is useful). - The quality of some of plug-ins is not good enough yet to make them available in a paid version: some don't work always as expected, some don't support undo/redo, some weren't updated to support new features added to the program...
But the paid versions support plug-ins too, and you'll just have to import the plug-ins you need to use them, as you did the first time.
By the way, sorry if the version available on the Amazon store is still 5.0.1, but their review process of new versions is very slow this time. Hope it won't last too long
----------------------------------------
Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D developer
Germany
Joined: Oct 16, 2015
Post Count: 3
Status:
Offline
Re: SH3D Paid Version
Maybe, there is a misunderstanding. I completely understand that you can't include plugins, the copyright for which you do not own, into the paid version, and I never expected this.
As you stated in your reply, it should be possible to import plus-ins into the paid version, as you can do it in the free version. Actually, it works perfectly in the free version, but it doesn't work in the paid version I downloaded a few days ago.
USA
Joined: Oct 6, 2015
Post Count: 199
Status:
Offline
Re: SH3D Paid Version
You could just revert back to the free version. He still gets the money you spent on the paid version but the plugins will work again, at least until/if he figures out what's wrong.
---------------------------------------- Hawk
USA
Joined: Oct 6, 2015
Post Count: 199
Status:
Offline
Re: SH3D Paid Version
I have to admit it would have been better downloading the libraries spearately and making a donation to Emmanuel.
That's what I did. He got to keep all of the donation money whereas Amazon keeps 30% of the paid version money.
---------------------------------------- Hawk
France
Joined: Nov 7, 2005
Post Count: 9177
Status:
Offline
Re: SH3D Paid Version
The version 5.1.1 was finally released on the Amazon store, fixing the issue with plug-ins reported by Chris064. Thanks for your patience
----------------------------------------
Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D developer
