Hi Tony, I do want to make a built in render engine in moi but it will be pretty simple and not really focused on "photorealistic".

There is a lot of UI and materials management needed for a photorealistic render engine and so it's more practical to use an external program for that. That probably won't go away anytime soon, sorry.

But maybe when I'm able to focus on making a deeper SDK for other developers that might be a good fit for that area though.

- Michael