This Service Pack offers fixes along with many new features and enhancements. For example the compatibility with Maya 8.5 has been enhanced and Maya 8.5 features are now more efficiently supported.

The translator part of finalRender Stage-2 for Maya has been completely reworked and optimized for speed. Translation times are now much faster than before especially on dual core systems A speed-up of two times or even four times can easily be seen. Also the scene translation is much faster than before when hidden objects are present in the scene

Now more Maya features are supported than ever before. Raytraced translucency for example a standard Maya feature is now fully supported by finalRender. Also texture filtering is now much better and Bump2D and Bump3D has been enhanced so that it is 50 percent faster than before. Render All Layers a standard Maya feature is now supported as well.