
I am interested in lumion for what looks like very high quality photo real video capability. I am seriously considering making the move to Lumion 8. Here an animation (a bit kitsch.) for a client:

Here an animation, rendered about 7 hours on my notebook.
#Lumion 8 renders full
Rendered in 50 seconds on my notebook with GTX 980 for Full HD. Now Lumion 8 can illuminate a scene with indirect skylight and that makes the big difference to V7. Lumion is so much more than a renderengine and since V8 nearly comparable in terms of quality to other renderengines, especially for architects. I can work on the landscape, have mass-placement of animatable plants, cars and people, a video-editor, sounds which are placed at certain places and so on. The realtime-tweaking of the sun, weather, effects helps me building my scene in very short time. The library of objects like plants, cars, people, materials, lights grows each update. Now the quality of the V8 hasn't reached all of the possibilities for example of Thea, but overall I have so much more possibilites with an incredible speed. I was a former user of Fryrender and Thearender as hobbyist/semiprofessional. I use Lumion since V5 and every year they give us a big update. I often hear that the program itself and the updates of Lumion are expensive. I've wrote a review to Lumion V8 but it does not appear.
#Lumion 8 renders windows 10
I've rendered that over night about 7 hours on my notebook with a GTX 980, 8 GB, Windows 10 Pro with the highest quality-level 5 stars. Here a fast test of a sketchup-scene by Alejandro Garcia: Lumion still lacks of some features (displacement for example), but for me it's my tool of choice. With the new V8 the render quality even for interiors has made such a huge step that Thearender will get dusty for my projects. I'm so fast because Lumion is fast in rendering. It's possible to make animations, a kind of video- and title-editor is integrated.Īll features usable by a GUI which is for me as easy as sketchup.

People can be animatid, plants are influenced by the wind. I'm so fast because of a great pool of objects and materials and lights and so on by only drag'n drop it into my scene. I had more crashes with Excel than with Lumion. I only can say that every year Lumion makes such a huge step in terms of quality of the renderengine and also number of objects and usability, that I always like what I see and pay for it. Every year there is the discussion that it is too expensive. I was a Fryrender and later Thea-User, but more like a hobbyist/semiprofessional.Įvery year there is a new version of Lumion.
