delle <del### [at] ciaowebit> wrote:
> Pov-Ray is now a rendering engine of the "old" generation and, for what I
> see, there is no intention to move forward.

  See, it's exactly this kind of troll-posting which causes so much
aversion towards people spamming about other renderers.

  POV-Ray is the unfortunate victim of negative hype. One reason for this
is that POV-Ray has existed for so long and doesn't jump to every trend
which is being currently fashionable and hyped.

  There have been countless "povray-killers" during its history. Free
renderers which implement some new fad technique which is "the future".
Most of these hyped renderers have completed faded into oblivion. Some
have survived with a small following.

  For some reason the trend whores only see POV-Ray as a 15-years-old
renderer. It's not like POV-Ray never evolved nor implemented any new
techniques. However, the trend whores completely ignore them, and still
want to see POV-Ray as something of the past.

  For example, POV-Ray was one of the first renderers to effectively
implement photon mapping. It didn't help the negative hype.
  POV-Ray has implemented multi-threaded rendering which has received
praise, beating in distributing efficiency even many high-end commercial
renderers. But no avail, it still can't kill the negative hype.
  POV-Ray even went a bit with the trend and implemented HDRI (with two
popular file formats and all). Nope. The negative hype is unmovable.
No matter how much POV-Ray evolves and implements new techniques, some
people will always see it as a renderer of the past which has "no intention
to move forward".

  The current fad is this "unbiased rendering". By all means go ahead and
use some trendy renderer. Just hope it will not die in a couple of years.
Maybe it will become successful, with luck.

  That doesn't mean POV-Ray will never ever implement such algorithms if
they are good.

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