Is POVRay still the most liked LDraw HQ renderer?

[Roland Melkert]

But, isn't Blender good enough for rendering? Blender has been used for some pretty stunning images. Granted, they used Mecabricks instead of LDraw and Mecabricks is a lot more 'modern' so in that regard it's an unfair comparison. But my point is that Blender is a very good renderer too, so I'm wondering why you would want to 'bypass' Blender if you already got it in Blender in the first place?

Blender's fileformat is all but simple, I did consider it at one point for LDCad as I'm mainly exporting to animate.

I also considered .obj but that one is too simple.

So far POV-Ray is just right for what I wanted to do.