Is POVRay still the most liked LDraw HQ renderer?

[Michael Horvath]

I'm wondering... is POVRay still the most liked / preferred HQ rendering tool for LDraw scenes / animations out there?

I mean with GUI tools like blender around and all.

Just wondering in preparation of the LDCad animation HQ export feature.

No one has mentioned this, but there are also Sunflow and BlueRender.

Here are some Webpages to look at:

http://sunflow.sourceforge.net/index.php?pg=gall
https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.p...for-ldraw/
https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.p...ps-tricks/
https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.p...e-for-ldd/

One of these works for LDD models, the other works for LDraw models. I can't remember which is which, however. (Actually, I am very confused.)

You get pretty good quality renders for the time you invest in them, but the scene description language is lacking in features. And, the renderer is not-well documented in general.

An example (not by me):