2A is the THIRD free upgrade for finalRender Stage-1 customers since the product?s release last year and continues cebas? commitment to add new features and benefits, not just fixes, to product updates.

SP2A adds to the functionality of SP2, which gave users the following:

All new Anti-Aliasing core engine technologies. The latest advanced adaptive Anti-Aliasing sampling algorithms have been implemented within SP2 and provided as a new engine along with significant speed enhancements to the existing engines.
Powerful Dynamic Bitmaps technology - finalRender?s native, all-purpose bitmap pager has been incorporated and solves the memory limitations and problems that allows users to render 21K x 21K images and larger along with high resolution textures.
Substantial speed increases within complex scenes of up to 10 times compared to SP1
Inclusion of our special Adaptive Multiple Ray Sampler code to enhance rendering speed on scenes that use multiple ?blurry? rendering effects like Blurry tracing, Area shadows or Quasi Monte Carlo Global Illumination!
Drastically Reduced Memory consumption by the renderer core
Superior Anti-Aliasing detection in nearly horizontal lines and other extremely thin edges
By popular demand, the Cylinder light, a true area light source is now included
Game Developer specific enhancements have been added to the output options for SP2
UI enhancements have been added for easier access and faster set up of render parameters
Fully compatible with Autodesk VIZ 4.x, 3ds max 4.2x, 3ds max 5.x and 3ds max 6
Better native 3ds max 6 renderer support
Ongoing service and support Enhancements for free for our loyal customers