Lumion Review

Lumion is a real-time 3D rendering software with an intuitive workflow and fast rendering speed. It allows you to bring architectural projects, interiors, landscapes, and urban plans to life with unmatched speed and precision. The program is compatible with all major CAD and 3D modeling software such as SketchUp, Revit, Archicad, Rhino, AutoCAD, Allplan, Vectorworks, BricsCAD, and many others. With seamless integration into your visualization workflow, you have control over your ideas at any stage of your creative process.
With a vast library of nearly 10,000 characters, objects, and materials, Lumion offers a comprehensive toolkit that helps transform your vision into immersive experiences that captivate and inspire.

LUMION – TUTORIAL

LUMION – FEATURES

• Simplify your workflow: Model and render simultaneously, make changes on the fly, and make faster design decisions. Compatible with all major CAD or 3D modeling software, it seamlessly adapts to your workflow. Allows real-time connection with your CAD software, enabling quick rendering of images, videos, or 360-degree panoramas while refining your project.
• Make surfaces real: Materials bring buildings to life, enhance the senses, and add character to spaces. Comes with thousands of high-quality materials that you can enhance with surface decals, weathering effects, soft edges, and more.
• Your materials, your world: Render surfaces exactly as you envisioned by importing, customizing, and creating any texture you can imagine. The easy-to-use material editor lets you control texture, relief, roughness, reflectivity, metalness, opacity, or emissivity of your PBR materials.
• See your projects in a new light: Materials bring buildings to life, enhance the senses, and add character to spaces. Comes with thousands of high-quality materials that you can enhance with surface decals, weathering effects, soft edges, and more.
• Add a touch of magic: Architectural rendering does more than showcase form and function—it conveys emotion. With multiple atmospheric and cinematic effects, you can give your architectural projects a distinct mood that is sure to capture hearts and minds.
• From conceptual to realistic: Choose from 8 different preset styles to instantly balance light, depth, and realism. You can also create custom effect stacks that can be easily reused across multiple projects, giving all your architectural renderings a distinctive style.
• Inspire from every angle: Create stunning orthographic views with vibrant plans, sections, and elevations of your architectural project.
• Tell a compelling story: Showcase the process behind your project’s development or construction through the power of animated phases.
• Unleash your creativity: Compare multiple model and material variations and present different design solutions to guide decision-making.