Hello... I thought that this thread was dead and gone, but happilly it's not !
@earthmover said:
Mr. WIP, what is your rig? ...and what kind of difference in render times did you experience with the two programs?
Well, earth mover, I'm not really sure to get what you mean by "my rig" (the french translation is not crystal clear...)?
About the rendering time, it's hard to tell, and not speaking about the global look of the render (which is a whole subject by itself) :
Lumion is fast and stable (more than the first versions of twinmotion), and the import system via DAE is a wise choice, well supported by sketchup, so it speeds up the dialog between the two application. On an other and, Lumion is, to me, really lacking advanced control (more advanced than the one you get by activating the advanced mode), and it's impossible (for the time being) to scale something or move a part of an object, and you have to go back in sketchup for every small modification...The same goes for all the rendering settings, that you have to tweak everytime again to get what you want (an option to save presets will really be necessary).
Twinmotion is slower to import, because it uses fbx data which are far more heavy than the DAE, and is not as stable as Lumion, but it offers a much wider range of possibilities ( real gizmo, more lighting possibilities, and such..), which allows you to update more precisely your model all along the design process.
So, actually, Lumion is able to display really quickly a sketchup model in a nice outdoor landscape, but it's a bit too "closed" to make a professional really happy (I don't meant it's not good enough to be used by professional, just that in this state, it's often frustrating), and Twinmotion is a bit slower to get an immediate result, but offers more development possibilities.
Finally, both programs just suffers from their early age : lumion is lacking many features (and they will surely appear soon in the next releases) and Twinmotion is still not fully ironed out (and It will sure get better as the time past)....
@remko said:
Is there any chance you can provide me with the model you used for TM? I'd like to do some comparisons between Lumion and TM2.
I will try to find the model I've used, and as soon as it's done, I send it to you...
... Maybe an intelligent comparative review, a bit similar than the good one done by solo on lumion, will be interesting...
