Lumion - Test drive
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@unknownuser said:
Talking about limits... Have you found a model so complex it won't fit in the video RAM of your GPU?]
I actually found that Lumion3D (with my GPU) can actually handle everything SU can throw at it, probably more. I tried a model that is 245MB (cripples SU) and was smooth in Lumion.
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Interesting. Does your GTX 260 have 896MB or 1792MB of RAM?
If you can do everything with the 896MB model, it means any new mid-range to high-end graphics card can handle Lumion pretty good, as most start at 1024MB nowadays.
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I believe I got a 1Gb card, at least as far as I remember.
Here is another quick play, takes longer to upload to Vimeo than start to end of entire animation project.
[flash=800,400:1x8u80nq]http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=18370475[/flash:1x8u80nq]
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still a great job
to the question:how far can you push Lumion3D?
a person said to have exceeded 16 million poly.
lumion fortunately has no physics engine, if a bird died in a railing to the second 19.
This is a joke
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Yeah, I'm killing birds, in the previous one the bird dive bombs the wharf, now it goes through the rails...
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BTW what flying birds are there? (There are not too many sea birds around here)
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I must say Lumion is a lot of fun to play with, and results are fast. I would like to see more realism in future versions if it means a better grass option, more realistic trees, scalable objects and a bigger object library.
I can use this product for some current clients that want quick visuals, but for my higher end properties they'd probably want a higher more realistic result.I tried loading up a huge to scale model of Manhattan, but could not navigate in Lumion, the scale was just too high and took much shift+ move to get anywhere.
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Last one for the day, no birds were harmed this time..
[flash=800,400:3bsokg7z]http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=18375949[/flash:3bsokg7z]
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Thanks for sharing your experiences, Pete. Lumion looks like it does nature well...especially water.
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I remember that building!
I dunno what your problem with the vegetation is. IMO (although not hyper-photo-realistic), it is a nice representation. And the atmosphere adds quite a lot to it.
(And true that some moving elements like water, clouds, creatures, vehicles) can add even more than that.
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these are fantastic solo, its good to see some quality stuff being produced on this... i could be interested in this buisness-wise... i can't currently offer much in the way of animation services but this is attractive to me because it doesnt require much in the way of hardware or manpower something im currently lacking. With some creative post work in after effects these could be more than sufficent for what most clients are looking for.
I think its great it has smooth transitions and fairly decent high poly trees... could do with a scale tool tho! I may also have to avoid the limited selection of people otherwise it'll become an obvious lumion animation... still keep em coming!
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@solo said:
Lumion released an update last week, a few fixes, and more content. I have been trying to do too many things lately like test SDS2, Thea, (another product that I cannot mention thanks to tight NDA) and Lumion.
Then there was Christmas and New year (still got a bit of a hangover)Anyway today I loaded up an old model and ran it through Lumion , gotta say the result IMO is great, oh, look out for the kamakazi seagull....my mistake.
[flash=800,400:cdvc0bfq]http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=18357568[/flash:cdvc0bfq]
wow it is great movie
but is it need to render every Scene ?
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A little experiment: "The Forest".
RAW Lumion output:
After level adjustment in GIMP:
I want to make a video, but... I would need a video editor with custom level adjustment. Perhaps a VirtualDub filter can do it?
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That looks awesome, I actually like the Raw one best, got a haze that works great.
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Based on your preference, I kept this video untouched even though I found a way to alter levels and white balance in VirtualDub
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[flash=853,505:2jqvu68k]http://www.youtube.com/v/tJrJI2i1zYU&fs=1[/flash:2jqvu68k] -
Lyric!
Does this made with a demo version?
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Hi, Pilou. I bit the bullet and bought the license. I can justify its cost as I'll be using it commercially.
There's a demo with no time limit, but it can't save.
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Yes as well as render.
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Hi everybody!
I am also test driving Lumion 3D which I thought was cool until........
I created a complex house with swimming pool model in SketchUp and exported it as a Collada file for Lumion
but when I tried to import it into Lumion, the model won't load and all I see is a black screen on
the import library.
Before, I can import an exported model from SU if the model is just a simple one like a box shaped house. This is when I am testing Lumion for navigation, importing models, etc....
Is there an exporting process I missed in SU?
Please help.All the best,
Andy
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