I did not work a lot with previous version, but the 7th version is really impressive. It renders really faster than the Vue6 version (and that's why I didn't played a lot with it).

I searched... but as said, I'm a little new: where do you find the smoothing shadows for GI or radiosity ? I searched in the Render settings, the atmosphere and the light settings. DId I missed it ?

Thanks :)

Oh, and aslo impressive things(except render time): the new Infinite terrains and the water editor :D