Blender rendering coming along

by way of general interest for those of you who may be looking for a free
open source rendering solution Blender 2.31a has been released recently and
does a decent job on VRML files. www.blender3d.org
the interface is now a bit friendlier and a decent manual is in the
pipeline.
Yafray is an add-on for raytracing that produces v.good results imo. next
year it is planned for Yafray to be better integrated with Blender.
www.coala.uniovi.es/~jandro/noname check out the gallery
Blender supports alpha, caustics, environmental
mapping,halo,shadows,emissive bodies, antialiased labels etc ...of passing
note is some recent experimentation with a plug in for caustic rendered
animation.
Blender is evolving all the time -I follow progress for SW use - will keep
you posted - could really become useful into next year....
cheers people