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candicekulacz

10-31-2006, 02:15 PM

finalRender SP2 available now

cebas releases Service Pack 2, for finalRender Stage-2 CINEMA 4D.
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(Boston – October 31, 2006) - cebas Computer, maker of finalRender®, today announced the release of Service Pack 2 for finalRender Stage-2 for CINEMA 4D. Service Pack 2 fixes several important issues that came up after the release of SP1. Read below for details.

SP2 is a Free download and can be acquired by registered users at the cebas shop (http://shop.cebasserver.de/index.php).
If you already have an account you can simply go to the My Account section of the cebas shop and then go to My Downloads to get the update. If you can not see the download in your My Downloads section, you need to contact register@cebas.com and mention that you are not able to see the download in the shop. If you didn’t purchase finalRender® Stage-2 directly from the cebas shop, you will need to create an account and then press the Register Me button in the My Downloads section. Within 24 hours you will have all updates and downloads available to you for all of your cebas products.

Please be aware that all of the prior Service Pack fixes are included within this latest version of the software and you do NOT need to install all of the patches in order to become current. Simply installing the SP2 build will give you all of the updates, fixes and enhancements.

http://www.cebas.com/products/images/stage2cinema/SebastianFlorand_WipCozy.jpg

Image by Sebastian Floran

Service Pack 2 for CINEMA 4D
Welcome to the second Service Pack of finalRender Stage-2. cebas is continuously enhancing the finalRender code base. From time to time Service Packs are released, those Service Packs (short: SP) include bug fixes and may contain new features and additions.

What's New in SP2?
finalRender Stage-2 comes with a lot of internal fixes and enhancements! Also, new features have been added in this build for FREE.

Displacement (MTD)
The Displacement (MTD) has been changed and optimized a great deal in SP2. It is likely that you will need to adjust older scenes to meet the new criteria that have been added to SP2. For more information on Displacement MTD click HERE (http://www.finalrender.com/products/feature.php?UD=10-7888-35-788&PID=53&FID=553).

Physical Sky
Physical Sky got a complete overhaul in Service Pack 2. It brings to you a bunch of new controls and features that allow for a much wider range of control of the effect. To learn more about the changes click HERE (http://www.finalrender.com/products/feature.php?UD=10-7888-35-788&PID=53&FID=484).

finalRender Light Tag
Photometric Lights (IES) are fully supported now by finalRender Stage-2. IES lights are Great and offer a huge advantage when it comes to photo realistic lighting in a 3D scene.
To learn more about IES lights and the new options click HERE (http://www.finalrender.com/products/feature.php?UD=10-7888-35-788&PID=53&FID=547).

New Material Shaders
2 new material shaders, Oren-Nayar-Blinn and Edge Shader, have been added to the tool set of finalRender Stage-2. To learn more about those shaders click HERE (http://www.finalrender.com/products/feature.php?UD=10-7888-35-788&PID=53&FID=493).

http://www.cebas.com/products/images/stage2cinema/Toni_Bratincevic_ManekinJumps.jpg
Image by Toni Bratincevic

Max Shadow Bounces
A new shadow bounce control has been added to offer even more depth control over the raytracing engine. It lets you define how often a shadow ray is allowed to bounce around in a scene and how long it will be followed.

Scene MSP changes
Changes have been made to the Raytracing Accelerator settings. Scene MSP is now much more optimized for high polygon count scenes and it offers a much more robust and faster raytracing acceleration than before.

http://www.cebas.com/products/images/stage2cinema/LorenzodeTrizio_Relax.jpg

Image by Lorenzo de Trizio

talos72

10-31-2006, 06:06 PM

Does this FR upgrade take C4D R10 into account? I just purchased the R10 updgrade.

Thanks

candicekulacz

10-31-2006, 07:54 PM

Hi there!

Yes, fR SP2 DOES take into account C4D R10. You shouldn't have any problems. The Sp2 installer will work with R10.

Thanks!

-Candice

mlmiller1983

10-31-2006, 09:02 PM

Does this update add support for the Hair module?

ngrava

10-31-2006, 10:02 PM

Any chance of a Mac version?

Michael McCarthy

10-31-2006, 10:37 PM

Does this update add support for the Hair module?

Not quite yet :)

Thanks
Michael McCarthy

ienrdna

10-31-2006, 11:10 PM

Does enyone know if FR-2 to will be released for Max9, cuz' to me,it looks like Cebes is dumping Max.

Michael McCarthy

11-01-2006, 02:28 AM

finalRender stage-1 R2 will be released for Max 9 shortly. 3dsmax development is as strong as ever.

Thanks
Michael McCarthy

Duffdaddy

11-01-2006, 09:50 AM

... and the Mac version?

ienrdna

11-01-2006, 01:33 PM

finalRender stage-1 R2 will be released for Max 9 shortly. 3dsmax development is as strong as ever.

Thanks
Michael McCarthy

but Stage-2?

Michael McCarthy

11-01-2006, 01:34 PM

Now that SP2 has shipped, we will be devoting more time to Mac and Module support.

Thanks

Michael

Michael McCarthy

11-01-2006, 01:39 PM

but Stage-2?

Stage-2 is in also currently in development for 3dsmax. Stage-1 R2 will have many of the advantages of Stage-2 while still keeping its large compatibility with the many 3dsmax plugins. This is more difficult to do with at stand-alone renderer (like Stage-2) but a stand-alone render has many other advantages :)

Thanks
Michael

vbvcvj

11-02-2006, 09:02 AM

Thanks for head up, it looks very promising.

pzdm

11-02-2006, 09:28 AM

Not quite yet :)

Thanks
Michael McCarthy

I tested a simple hair scene (hair on cube), there was 10.000 hairs - 12 segments per hair - hair generated poly´s and render was really very fast and nice... I plan other tests, but I believe, that there is a chance to render polygon hair with fR without problems...

I tested a few very complicated C4D shaders too, fR does not work with Falloff, for example, but translation works really very nice in 85%. Great work!

Duffdaddy

11-02-2006, 09:41 AM

Now that SP2 has shipped, we will be devoting more time to Mac and Module support.

Thanks

Michael

Thanks Michael, well that's a good start - but can you give us something more definitive to hang onto? What does "devoting more time to the Mac and Module support" actually mean?
1 developer, 2 developers, 3 developers, more? An hour a month? A week? A day?
We're gagging for it!!!
Cheers.
DD

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