Lumion 2 will take visualization indoors by providing quick and easy tools for indoor visualization. The updated architecture visualization software lifts visuals to a new level by providing several essential new features.
Lumion produces images and video for visualisation. Rapidly. High quality output, suitable for client presentation, produced in minutes not hours, and in hours not days. Lumion provides a productive, highly focused realtime 3D environment for the creation of visualisation scenes rapidly. A simple import and update workflow is used to bring content through to Lumion. The Lumion real-time 3D environment is where a user completes the building of the scene, such as adding in terrain, sky and weather settings, scene objects, lighting, and other 3D content. Scenes can then be rapidly rendered to still image, or video animation to create high quality visualisation content.
Users can also provide direct presentation in realtime to clients. This is a truly fantastic tool for rapid visualisation and ease of workflow. This tool can fit into a visualisation pipeline/workflow to provide time savings and quality output. Lumion is already proving an invaluable time saver and hit with a growing number of architects and others in visualisation. It is being successfully used to provide more cost effective visualisation content to clients.
With the 3D rendering software Lumion, it has never been easier to create architectural visualizations of your 3D models. Simply add water, trees, people, cars and amazing weather effects, and render awesome videos in minutes. Or present the scene to your client as a real-time 3D fly-through. Faster and easier than ever before.
Used As A Visualisation Tool For:
- Architecture - Construction Planning - Infra-structure Planning - Building Projects and Developments - Property Design - Landscape Design
Some Features:
- Realtime interior lighting (V2). - Ability to handle large scenes, with optimisations of large to massive polygon models and texturing to provide best case real-time playback and rendering for stills and video. - Import your models from most DCC and CAD tools, supports leading industry Collada and FBX formats, as well as Max, 3DS and Obj. - Use terrain templates, create terrains, or import your own. - A weather system with cloud, fog, simple sun positioning, sunlight shadow. Create areas for water, as well as an amazing ocean add-on. - A range of add-ons are available, providing additional content and effects (refer illuminate3d.com or the Lumion web site). - Simple, intuitive, constant and rapid improvements, supportive and dynamic architectural and visualisation based professional community and forum.
New Functionality in LUmion 2.5 Ultimate
A new Referral system has been introduced (Get free licenses if friends buy Lumion). Lumion Educational is now available via your University/Technical college. Lumion Pro Educational is now available via your University/Technical college.
Movie effects can now be copied from one clip to another. New Underwater effect.
OTHER CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS
F7: See the Terrain without automatic culling at the maximum level of detail. Sky Drop effect -> Max Height was changed from 100m to 1000m. New Deselect all button has been added in Build mode. FPS Setting now also displays the number of currently selected models. The Streaks effect has been removed as it is already part of the Lens Flare effect. New Cancel button when editing materials. 4 x Japanese Maple trees have been improved. L (Scale), P (Rotate Pitch) and B (Rotate Bank) shortcuts are now available in more situations. Models can now be placed as far away from 0,0,0 as you want (Beware of jitter though). Wind has been changed so that branches don't sway so repetitively anymore. The Advanced Animation effect has been overhauled: If you open it for the first time, the Max Duration of the animation is the clip duration. Max Duration has been increased to 99 seconds. You now need to select an object in order to see its keyframes. If you move the time-line slider, a blue dot will now show if you are "on" a keyframe. You can now more accurately create keys at 0.1 second intervals.
BUG FIXES
Godrays effect -> It no longer blurs the image. Godrays effect -> It is no longer active at night. Godrays effect -> Snow is no longer affected by this effect. Watercolor effect -> Dynamic slider now works when White out is 0. Fog is no longer culled before it reaches the horizon. Fog now looks identical inside and outside the Lumion terrain square on ATI/AMD graphics cards. Custom Terrain textures are no longer mirrored. Colour palette -> Pasting a hexadecimal colour now works correctly again. Siderock materials now look correct again, both from a distance and up close. Clip type -> Movie now renders the full movie file instead of just 1 frame. Photo mode -> You can now cancel renderings (it takes a little while to cancel all file write operations). Ocean wind direction is no longer reversed in Movie mode (compared with Build mode). Advanced animation -> Animated people no longer face the wrong way when the time slider is past the last keyframe. Custom Library folders should now be working correctly again. Light sources are no longer visible in reflections when Show light source is off. Lightmapped materials no longer glow when increasing the Diffuse Shadow slider. Select trees -> Edit Properties -> All models are no longer set to the same position the first time you do this. Waterfall material -> Foam is now more visible at night. Custom G-buffer map output -> Other formats than BMP are now available. Low memory mode now reduces the scale of imported textures in a stricter manner. The Lumion Splash screen has been updated. Custom terrain material -> Thumbnails are now updated when replacing textures. Build mode -> Photo mode -> Current camera angle is no longer added to the saved camera thumbnail #1. Show Layer effect keyframes are no longer slightly offset in longer clips Scrubbing to the end of the timeline now works as expected. Indoor -> Lighting tab is no longer black when not selected. Green selection overlay is now updated correctly after position type-ins. Green horizontal line is no longer visible when choosing Context menu. Edit clip -> Scrubbar no longer pushes keyframe thumbnails left and right. If there are 28/56/84 models in a model category, there is no longer an empty page at the end. The order of RGB axes is now the same as the XYZ position type-in axes. The Diffuse shadow slider value is no longer hidden behind the Shadow slope offset slider. Bench_015 now has the correct bounding box Circular object icons -> Indoor and Outdoor icons have now been swapped. Material thumbnails are no longer missing when editing a material the first time after starting Lumion. Movie section -> Effects are no longer on top of upper left buttons. The Sky texture is now updated when the Contrails effect is deleted. Weather -> Tile size slider is no longer too long when you start Lumion. Toggling layer visibility no longer makes a hidden layer active. Moving models in the top left corner no longer activates the Layer UI. The scene description text field now has multiple lines again. Object category -> Characters tool tip has been changed to People and Animals. Settings -> Image quality has been changed to Editor Image Quality. Air Trails effect has been renamed to Contrails effect.
Act3D-BV:
Lumion is developed by Act3D-BV, the team who developed Quest3D, a proven real-time 3D authoring tool that has been a leader in the marketplace for over 8 years, and used for many real-time 3D visualisation projects. Through their direct association with many architectural clients and projects, and their Quest3D customer base, Act3D have a solid reputation in providing high performance real-time 3D solutions.
Version: 2.5 Ultimate 64bit Home: _http://lumion3d.com/ Interface: english OS: Windows XP / Vista / Seven Size: 2.8 Gb
Its fine. Seems that the Ultimate version isnt so "Ultimate" at all lol. I mean, the most complete version is the Pro one, not the Ultimate. But its fine, at least works perfectly even if we cant use the Pro stuff
