

Users of the Pro edition get some rather larger features, including an eye-catching readymade animated phasing effect, which creates effects like those shown in the video above. Pro edition only: new animated phasing system, plus fire and rain streak effects Other changes include a new high-quality preview mode in Theater view, and the option to apply the new Artistic render styles introduced in Lumion 10.0 to panoramas.

Lumion’s LiveSync feature, which creates a live link to CAD and BIM applications like AutoCAD, Revit, Rhino and SketchUp, also now supports BricsCAD 18 and above. The update also introduces a RAL colour picker, making it possible to select colours for scene materials according to the European RAL colour standard for paints and plastics. Lighting changes include the option to set up custom spot lights in scenes by importing IES profiles of real lights, and support for “micro shadows” when rendering the illumination that spot lights generate. It works for both still images and animations, and to judge by the release notes, can also render isometric views as well as actual orthographic ones. New features in the base edition of the software include a new orthographic view for rendering plan and elevation views of a building, in addition to the existing perspective view. New in Lumion 11.0 standard: new orthographic views, plus updates to lighting and colour picking They can then edit materials inside Lumion, set up lighting and weather effects, dress the scene using readymade models from the accompanying asset library, and create simple camera animations. Users import building models from other software, either in standard 3D file formats like FBX, OBJ, SKP and MAX, or via built-in live links to major CAD applications. The software is intended to provide architects with little background in visualisation with a more straightforward way to create realistic stills and animations than conventional DCC apps. The Pro edition get a new animated phasing effect for creating renders of buildings assembling themselves, volumetric fire, a rain streaks effect for windows, and a new car paint shader.Īn easy-to-use near-real-time tool for architectural visualisation workįirst released in 2010, and now one of the three most widely used renderers for arch viz work, Lumion creates renders of architectural scenes in near real time.

Act-3D has released Lumion 11.0, the latest version of its real-time architectural visualisation software, adding a new orthographic rendering mode, support for custom IES spot lights, and an RAL colour picker.
