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      Ecuadorian
      last edited by

      Will we be able to have a look at the forum before purchasing?

      -Miguel Lescano
      Subscribe to my house plans YouTube channel! (30K+ subs)

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        Nicholas Phelps
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        Ecuadorian,

        Yes, we've been wanting to open up our registered user forum for a while but haven't gotten around to doing it yet (it requires some work on the forum engine to let everybody read, but only let those who have a registered copy post).

        We'll bump the priority on this a little more 😄

        Best regards

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          dburdick
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          On the demo version request, duly noted. We're looking into this.

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            dburdick
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            Just a quick note, LumenRT is up for plugin of the year in the annual 3D CG Awards
            http://cgawards.3dworldmag.com/

            Thanks to many of the people on this forum with their ideas and help to make this possible

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              deaneau
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              hi at all,

              LumenRT was my favorite, however i have try this on different pc´s.

              LumenRT doesn´t work on pc´s nvidia Geforce 9800GT
              Intel(R) Core(TM) QUAD CPU Q600 @2.40GHz 32 Bit WIN7 Ultimate.

              a newer paccard bell (R) imedia Windows® 7 Home Premium - Intel Core i5 (i5 - 2300, 2,80 GHz, 6 MB) - nVIDIA 1 GB - 4 GB DDR3 SDRAM - 1 TB Serial ATA - DVD - this work fine

              plus

              exe file is good when i dont want do give a file out of my hand.

              what i can see isn´t bad.
              navigation by the custumer/client
              animation like in sketchup
              plugin work on sketchup and sketchup pro 8
              different versions (download or DVD)
              work on WIN and MAC (macversion in a zipfile with password protection :-/)
              the price

              minus

              preprocessing
              no lights only sunlight
              not a demoversion only a livecubeversion (exe) both is better.
              only work for sketchup export from other apps isnt possible.

              my compares

              lumion work on a pc older than the packard bell(R)
              twinmotion work on older pc export from sketchup to 3ds (only for pro user :-/)

              my suggestion to pay for LumenRT

              insert lights, provide night scenes, let work the livecube on older PC/MAC
              insert animation that produced by other plugins in sketchup. provide a demo or trailversion.

              sorry for my bad english

              deaneau

              MADE, BORN AND LIVING IN BERLIN
              Big Thank You to all Programmers
              Some German words are so long that they have a perspective. M.Twain

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                dburdick
                last edited by

                @deaneau said:

                hi at all,

                LumenRT was my favorite, however i have try this on different pc´s.

                LumenRT doesn´t work on pc´s nvidia Geforce 9800GT
                Intel(R) Core(TM) QUAD CPU Q600 @2.40GHz 32 Bit WIN7 Ultimate.

                Hi Deaneau,

                The GeForce 9800GT card should work. Can you try updating your graphics drivers on this card by downloading from NVIDIA and then trying LumenRT again.

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                  deaneau
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                  @dburdick said:

                  @deaneau said:

                  hi at all,

                  LumenRT was my favorite, however i have try this on different pc´s.

                  LumenRT doesn´t work on pc´s nvidia Geforce 9800GT
                  Intel(R) Core(TM) QUAD CPU Q600 @2.40GHz 32 Bit WIN7 Ultimate.

                  Hi Deaneau,

                  The GeForce 9800GT card should work. Can you try updating your graphics drivers on this card by downloading from NVIDIA and then trying LumenRT again.

                  oh hi ill try answer for this later

                  MADE, BORN AND LIVING IN BERLIN
                  Big Thank You to all Programmers
                  Some German words are so long that they have a perspective. M.Twain

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                    deaneau
                    last edited by

                    @dburdick said:

                    @deaneau said:

                    hi at all,

                    LumenRT was my favorite, however i have try this on different pc´s.

                    LumenRT doesn´t work on pc´s nvidia Geforce 9800GT
                    Intel(R) Core(TM) QUAD CPU Q600 @2.40GHz 32 Bit WIN7 Ultimate.

                    Hi Deaneau,

                    The GeForce 9800GT card should work. Can you try updating your graphics drivers on this card by downloading from NVIDIA and then trying LumenRT again.

                    Hello bad news for me...my pc doesn´t work with lumenRT 😞(

                    MADE, BORN AND LIVING IN BERLIN
                    Big Thank You to all Programmers
                    Some German words are so long that they have a perspective. M.Twain

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                      dburdick
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                      Version 1.2 of LumentRT is now released:

                      http://www.lumenrt.com/

                      Biggest changes include

                      • the ability to render super large scenes (e.g. 1km x 1km) much faster using the new AutoScale lighting feature
                      • faster preprocessing speeds

                      Exisiting LumenRT users can download the update from their account page

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                        dburdick
                        last edited by

                        Here's a user spotlight on Ronen Bekerman, an early adopter of LumenRT:

                        Ronen Bekerman Spotlight
                        http://www.lumenrt.com/showcase/ronenbekerman/index.php

                        http://www.lumenrt.com/showcase/ronenbekerman/images/TitleImage.jpg

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                          dburdick
                          last edited by

                          Another interesting LumenRT showcase from Xijin Cai using LumenRT to render a University Laboratory:

                          Xijin Cai

                          http://www.lumenrt.com/showcase/

                          http://static.lumenrt.com/images/showcase/XijinUniversity_06.jpg

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                            Ecuadorian
                            last edited by

                            Pre-processing times and hardware specs of these examples?

                            For a moment I thought the first render was by the Schwarzkopf company after seeing Ronen's logo... he he he

                            -Miguel Lescano
                            Subscribe to my house plans YouTube channel! (30K+ subs)

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                              Nicholas Phelps
                              last edited by

                              Ecuadorian,

                              I believe the author said something like 25 minutes pre-processing time, but best is to check out on the LumenRT registered user forums (by the way, our forums are now open to public reading, following your request):
                              http://www.e-onsoftware.com/support/forum2/viewforum.php?f=6

                              We will also ask the author if he wants to visit here to answer questions directly.

                              Best regards

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                                Ecuadorian
                                last edited by

                                Thank you.

                                -Miguel Lescano
                                Subscribe to my house plans YouTube channel! (30K+ subs)

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                                  AdamB
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                                  Guys,

                                  If you look inside the content folder of the download demos it contains the lighting log showing exactly how long it took to preprocess:

                                  Cafe Rosso:............................ 13h14s (!!)
                                  Roman Bath: ............................0h21s
                                  Tadao Church of Light: ............2h28s
                                  Azuma Rowhouse:...................1h14s

                                  Adam

                                  Developer of LightUp Click for website

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                                    Nicholas Phelps
                                    last edited by

                                    Yes Adam, that sounds about right (apart from the Cafe Rosso time which seems abnormally long). If you check the logs, alongside the render times, it also tells you that the LiveCubes were rendered in advanced quality modes (Superior or Extreme). Advanced quality modes are usually overkill and only useful in particular lighting conditions. I don't think any of these models required advanced quality modes (we did it for the sake of perfection, really) - we could always re-render them in the faster Review quality and post that for comparison, if you're interested in seeing the difference?
                                    BTW, before you ask, rendering of these LiveCubes was done on an average, 2 year old computer.

                                    Best regards

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                                      bravoddb
                                      last edited by

                                      Hi We just bought LumenRT and it is very easy to use, and great result even at preview mode, incredible. The only thing is I feel the published file is too slow to play in any computer, I tried to play it in a Core I7 laptop and was so slow, are there any way to improve this? or Am I doing something wrong?

                                      Thanks
                                      Bravoddb

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                                        bravoddb
                                        last edited by

                                        Another question, can I make a cube of a residential project? It is a 50 lots with a park at the center, and 15 trees.

                                        I'm asking this because the new update, I want to know if it will work?

                                        Thanks

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                                          Nicholas Phelps
                                          last edited by

                                          Hi Bravodb,

                                          Glad to hear you're happy with LumenRT's ease of use and render quality!
                                          Regarding real-time playback performance on your laptop, you should be aware that playback is mostly dependent on the performance of your GPU. This is not related to the power of your CPU, and unfortunately, laptops are often equipped with "M" versions of the GPUs ("M" as in Mobile) which are considerably slower than their standard desktop counterparts.

                                          Hope that helps.
                                          Best regards

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                                            Nicholas Phelps
                                            last edited by

                                            I thought I'd add that the number of polygons in the scene is what will slow down the playback, so try reducing the number of polygons in the SketchUp scene as much as possible. Keep in mind that SketchUp components are expanded as individual objects inside LumenRT (because of the lighting that is different on each one).

                                            About your question re/ the large residential project, the newly released LumenRT 1.2 is designed to handle such larger projects through the use of the Auto-scale lighting option - but you might want to consider playing the LiveCube on a better GPU if there are lots of elements in the scene (i.e. polygons).

                                            Again, hope than helps.
                                            Best regards

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