If it may be of interest, here are the stats for the "Gardens" round by
renderer used:
there were 86 pictures submitted)
Renderer     N   %
Povray      51 59%
3DS/MAX     13 15%
Bryce        5  6%
Raydream     4  5%
Cinema4D     3  3%
Vue d'Esprit 3  3%
Blender      2  2%
Unknown      2  2%
Lightwave    1  1%
Polyray      1  1%
Stratastudio 1  1%

Povray, in its various flavours, is still the most used renderer in the
competition, followed by 3DStudio.
It's a little surprising that Bryce and Vue d'Esprit, which are both
specialised in "outdoors" scenes, were not more represented (Vue has an
excellent plant generator). Also surprising is the fact that, apart
Povray, other free renderers like Blender (2 images), Polyray (1) or
BMRT (0) are little represented.
3 users didn't say what renderer they used : one of them looks like he
used 3DS (or at least another professional tool) but is too shy to say
so, and the other two images don't look rendered at all (which doesn't
imply they weren't).

I also looked at the various tools used to generate the plants :
- Non-povray users all modelled their own plants (with some impressive
results, I must say), or, in the case of Bryce and Vue d'Esprit, may
have used internal generators or premade objects. One Bryce user used
PlantStudio.
- Almost half of the Povray users made their own plants without external
help apart the use of non-specific modellers like sPatch. The other half
mentioned several utilities, including my own tree & grass macros (8,
thanks !), Tom Aust's tree macro (5), PlantStudio (4), LParser (2),
Derek Owens's tree macro (2), Sonya Robert's, Pradel's and Colefax's
macros (1 each), Johannes Hubert's TreeDesigner and the Genesis Toolkit
(1 each).

G.

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