cebas Visual Technology Inc. announces the immediate release of its 9th and latest Service Pack for finalRender 3.5 SE as well as for the integrated and standalone finalToon 3.5. Features in Service Pack 9 are mainly bugfixes – but the developer has also changed its licensing model for the 3ds Max-compatible renderer, quadrupling the number of cores each licence supports. The new finalRender license model includes a massive giveaway of 4 times more core power! Now, users can get up to 64 Local Cores/Threads AND up to 64 Core/Threads for Distributed Network Rendering (instead of 16/16 with the old license model). This major upgrade radically increases the return of investment for any existing and future finalRender installation.
Additional support for extra CPU cores will allow users to leverage the power of up to 64 single CPU PC's to render on one image or 32 Dual Core PC's or 16 Quad core PC's - offering more flexibility in distributed network rendering.
Registered users can install Service Pack 9 through cebas’s Autoupdate software, which has itself also just been revamped. Autoupdate 2.x is required for installations in 3ds Max 2013.
New licences of finalRender 3.5 SE cost €995 (around $1,240). It is compatible with 3ds Max 2009 and above.
finalRender Changes in Service Pack 9
- 3ds Max 2013 compatibility through web-install feature.
- A new licensing model to offer more cores has been added to Service Pack 9. Now it is 64/64 Cores/Threads for local and distributed network rendering.
- Reported problems with Harmonics Global Illumination in camera fly mode have been isolated and fixed.
- fR-Object lights causing a crash on load in some cases is now fixed.
- thinkingParticles and finalRender interaction has been streamlined and optimized for maximum data throughput.
- An ID-Map issue with MultiMap materials has been addressed.
- An ID-Map Problem when using the MTD Modifier has been fixed.
- G-Buffer channels shifted in blowup or crop modes has been adjusted and is no longer an issue.
finalToon Changes in Service Pack 9
- 3ds Max 2013 compatibility through web-install feature.
- Reflection/Refraction maps with default Scanline Renderer is now properly functioning.
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