OK, I recently purchased the Backyard edition of ShowSim after playing around with the demo for a while. Loved the demo, designed a few cakes and even started scripting a show that I will be putting on for MoPyro at the end of October. Decided to go ahead and buy the Backyard edition as it seemed to be exactly what I wanted. The minute I installed it is when I started having issues. First, lost all my progress from before with the demo, which hurt. Now I am having trouble logging on with constant errors. When I do log on cakes are missing or not working correctly and I cannot get the video function to render a video without an error every time. I imported my show and cakes from the demo version but neither seem to work well (Show says I am missing effects and I imported my effects and now some of the cakes from the regular library stopped working.)
The biggest concern to me is the fact that the program does not work unless you are logged on to the internet, something that will be impossible when I am out in the field. Is there any way around this? If not, the program will be useless when I am at the shoot site if I cannot get internet. I understand the idea behind one computer/one license but to not be able to use the program without internet access seems excessive.
Like I said, I loved the demo and the fact that you designed a nice program for those of us who only shoot a few shows a year and need only a small program to work with. And the demo filled that role well with only a few small issues. Seems odd that the full version is giving me more headaches than the demo at this point.
Fozzie