This is EXACTLY what Luke is aiming for. The rest is semantics. Yet you still tell me
Not true. What i was after and i am not anymore because for beginning i am not willing to spent my time dealing with you has nothing to do with rendering module from that topic. It was about taking what is already built in FreeCAD and put it together in a way one click on button gives you image of what you already see on the display with some more "preset bling".
Didn't you see the word "SEMI" in the title? No additional rendering engines or stuff like that. Just some usage of lightning, colors and maybe color algorithm applied on part that you already see on screen when you model parts and taking screenshot of that. That's all and it has nothing to do with "photo realism" or rendering beyond what u already see on the screen + "some bling". But in return it probably could work fine in FreeCAD ATM and i do believe a lot of (novice and expert too) users would use it for creating images for presentation on-the-fly.
Just a reminder: you and I do not "solve things" in FreeCAD. Programmers like Luke do.
I agree 100% you should remind yourself more often this ideas are not meant for you. They are for programmers like Luke! But true i agree forget about this idea you made it go away before you understood it and i don't care to be honest if you understand it and from my point of view i do this (partially) manually right now and other users well are on their own and i guess render module will over time give users something that will (partially) replace what i suggested here.
That said i enjoy using FreeCAD and i don't enjoy using FreeCAD forums to be honest and so I'll just leave it at that!