LDD and BLUERENDER

I've had a very quick look at BlueRender from Eurobricks

http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=109972

As a basic renderer for Lego Digital Designer (LDD) it's pretty good - open your LDD lxf file, and press the big Render button - it then renders your .lxf files into a png image.  This is nice solution for people who are only familiar with LDD and don't want to have to get stuck into the guts of LDRAW and model conversions to create nicer images of Lego.  It seems to render exactly what you see in the LDD interface.

and uses the camera framing from the lxf file and renders all the decals and transparency, lacks some of the rendering finesse of some of the high-end packages but it's a really nice, neat and quick solution for quick LDD renders, which look a lot better than the basic LDD previews.

There is also a simple wireframe preview function so it's fairly easy to create some basic turnarounds - but you need to think about where the center of the model/camera is!