Lumion 8 is just amazing!!
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I've wrote a review to Lumion V8 but it does not appear. Now another try:
I often hear that the program itself and the updates of Lumion are expensive.
I use Lumion since V5 and every year they give us a big update.
I was a former user of Fryrender and Thearender as hobbyist/semiprofessional.
Now the quality of the V8 hasn't reached all of the possibilities for example of Thea, but overall I have so much more possibilites with an incredible speed.
The library of objects like plants, cars, people, materials, lights grows each update.
The realtime-tweaking of the sun, weather, effects helps me building my scene in very short time. I can work on the landscape, have mass-placement of animatable plants, cars and people, a video-editor, sounds which are placed at certain places and so on.
Lumion is so much more than a renderengine and since V8 nearly comparable in terms of quality to other renderengines, especially for architects.
Now Lumion 8 can illuminate a scene with indirect skylight and that makes the big difference to V7.
See my attached picture. Rendered in 50 seconds on my notebook with GTX 980 for Full HD.Here an animation, rendered about 7 hours on my notebook. Please excuse the crappy camera-path.
Only lit by the sun.
https://youtu.be/B8NzrvWPhC4Here an animation (a bit kitsch...) for a client:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nk128FUpy0Call me a fanboy - I am!
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€ 2999
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I have the standard non-pro version of Lumion as it is a bit more affordable. One thing I constantly hope every year is for some of the pro features of previous versions to slowly trickle down into the non-pro version, but unfortunately they never do. With yet another price increase I don't think I will continue with it in the future.
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I am seriously considering making the move to Lumion 8. I am interested in lumion for what looks like very high quality photo real video capability. Does anyone have experience using this software to create photo real videos that they can share?
I have tried several different aps to create 30fps photo real video fly arounds and continue to run into the processing power problem. GPU based aps and cpu based aps have both led me to the point where I think I may have to purchase a $12,000 system to create photo real videos in a reasonable amount of time. I run a very strong computer with a very good gpu, but still need way more horse power to produce videos in a reasonable amount of time.
I am curios how long it took to create the video in the link at the top of this thread,and on what kind of system.
Or....is there a render farm that can run Lumion? that would be the best possible solution.
This is the quality and duration video I am after. This video would have taken my machine 4 days to process. I had someone with a bigger badder machine run it in about 22 hours.
I am determined to be able to create these videos and I would appreciate any input you all have as to Lumion 8 video capablities.
**I just now looked at the post from Tildee above and I looked at the videos. Those times are impressive. I run a gtx1080 so I am thinking I would do as well or better...hmmmm
I may be making the change...**
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Based on the above video I believe with my system Ryzen 1800 with 1080ti it would take under an hour and look better.
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Oh boy!
Time to test.
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@cadmunkey said:
I have the standard non-pro version of Lumion as it is a bit more affordable. One thing I constantly hope every year is for some of the pro features of previous versions to slowly trickle down into the non-pro version, but unfortunately they never do. With yet another price increase I don't think I will continue with it in the future.
Hyperlight is now available also for non pro-versions
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@tildee said:
@cadmunkey said:
I have the standard non-pro version of Lumion as it is a bit more affordable. One thing I constantly hope every year is for some of the pro features of previous versions to slowly trickle down into the non-pro version, but unfortunately they never do. With yet another price increase I don't think I will continue with it in the future.
Hyperlight is now available also for non pro-versions
Ah well thats some good news at least, I missed this from all the emails theyve sent me recently. Thanks.
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I've been an avid user of Lumion and appear on their Showcase Page as Chumleys Art. It's a great programme. See what I produce at https://vimeo.com/user45590453.
My issue is that as I use Lumion Version 7, to pay for another upgrade so soon is quite an expense - just below £1000. Unfortunately, SketchUp 2018 models cannot be loaded into Lumion Version 7 now. I have to build in SU2018 and save a copy to the 2017 version.
Will SketchUp address the transfer issue or will I eventually be forced to go to Lumion 8? I think I'm caught between a rock and a hard place....
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@chumley said:
I've been an avid user of Lumion and appear on their Showcase Page as Chumleys Art. It's a great programme. See what I produce at https://vimeo.com/user45590453.
My issue is that as I use Lumion Version 7, to pay for another upgrade so soon is quite an expense - just below £1000. Unfortunately, SketchUp 2018 models cannot be loaded into Lumion Version 7 now. I have to build in SU2018 and save a copy to the 2017 version.
Will SketchUp address the transfer issue or will I eventually be forced to go to Lumion 8? I think I'm caught between a rock and a hard place....
I missed version 7 out completely as I felt there was nothing in that version worth the upgrade from v6. Now I have finally got around to getting version 8 and so far it is very impressive. Like you say though the upgrade price is expensive so I cannot justify the cost every single year.
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And Twinmotion ?
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I agree with this asessement. I spent several hours going through videos on Twinmotion over the weekend and it just does not compare to Lumion---particularly the quality of the light. If it would only take HDRI's it might be better.
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You don't need a render farm but you do need a beast of a machine to run it well. I have a Sager NP9870-G purchased two years ago w 8GB GTX 980 and 8 will probably be the last upgrade it can handle. I also recommend getting pro with the larger entourage library as you can't import any animated characters. You are stuck with theirs or people that don't move. All that said we don't hesitate to upgrade every year.
Our Vimeo page: https://vimeo.com/derckandedson
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@derek edison said:
YI have a Sager NP9870-G purchased two years ago w 8GB GTX 980 and 8 will probably be the last upgrade it can handle.
Info on CPU / RAM / HDD's? I have a OriginPC EON17-X (late 2017) also based on the Clevo chassis, no Lumion yet, will see how things develop...
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i7-6700K @4.00 GHz with 32GB RAM. Boot HDD is Samsung 850 EVO M.2. Secondary is Samsung 850 Pro SSD. According to Lumion's benchmarking function the GTX 980 is the weak link. I haven't rendered any movies in 8 yet to compare render times with 7 but I expect things will be slower.
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@derek edison said:
i7-6700K @4.00 GHz with 32GB RAM. Boot HDD is Samsung 850 EVO M.2. Secondary is Samsung 850 Pro SSD. According to Lumion's benchmarking function the GTX 980 is the weak link. I haven't rendered any movies in 8 yet to compare render times with 7 but I expect things will be slower.
We have very similar setups.
i7-7700K @ 4.2GHz, 64GB RAM 2400MHz, OS: Samsung m.2 PCIE 960 Pro 512GB, Storage: Samsung SATA SSD 850 Evo SSD 1TB, GTX1080, Win10 Pro, 4k monitor. It runs well, the fans do get noisy in a quiet environment though. -
I used Lumion 3 for work years ago. It produces great results, but is the user interface still a nonstandard pos? It wasn't the worst I've ever come across (looking at you, Zbrush), but UI design is one of the few things that makes me rage about softwares.
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UI is a real disaster, they could conquer the market easily with conventional UI + human pricing.
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Quite some time ago this thread helped me make the decision to purchase Lumion 8.
I started using it a couple months ago and I am very happy with it so far. I have not mastered it by any means, but I am finding the work flow relatively easy. Produces solid still shots and it is just what I was looking for to create quick, good quality virtual fly arounds.
Like I said, I have a ways to go with learning how to create compelling videos, but with the short time I have been using it I am optimistic I will get there.
1920x1080 60fps - 13 hours to run on single gtx 1080 - no post processing
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