SmithMicro has just released a new Service Pack for their Poser8 product which includes everything in SR1 and their recent hotfix, along with several other improvements. The biggest addition is official support of OSX Snow Leopard and Windows7, but the complete list of changes is huge. Just look at some of the changes in the “Rendering” portion:
- Improved memory handling when rendering.
- Area Render renders over previous rendered image.
- Eliminated halos or splotches around objects when rendering with depth of field.
- Fixed FFRender crash when rendering raytraced reflections.
- Improved FFRender conclusion of render process
- Fixed spots that can occur during IDL renderings.
- Skipped buckets during multi-threaded rendering resolved.
- Improved IDL performance with bump/displacement maps.
- Improved quality of indirect lighting renders.
- Improved IDL rendering speed.
- Improved rendering of transparent surfaces in IDL.
- Improved IDL results at lower quality settings.
- Fixed outer border artifact in rendered images.
- Indirect Light Quality setting now persistent when saving render settings.
- Artifacts in raytraced shadow improved.
- Adjusted sampling pattern to improve quality of raytraced shadows.
- Ambient Occlusion material node includes a checkbox to select if it should be active in IDL renders.
Get the full list of changes in the Readme (Mac and Windows), and get the new patch on their site.
