E-on-Lumenrt render for Sketchup
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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=6We will also ask the author if he wants to visit here to answer questions directly.
Best regards
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Thank you.
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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:...................1h14sAdam
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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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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 -
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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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.
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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.
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@bravoddb said:
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
BravoddbYes, Nicholas is right in that many laptop graphics cards don't have sufficient GPU memory/power to run Live Cubes effectively. Besides reducing the scene polycount, you can also create avi clips or images from the LiveCube to send to those who lack sufficient GPU power.
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Here's another cool LiveCube done by Hai Ban. Took him 25 minutes to render in Review quality mode. Really nice reflections on this. Check out the other images at:
http://www.e-onsoftware.com/support/forum2/viewtopic.php?p=28376
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Some very nice renders by Xijin Cai
See more at
http://www.e-onsoftware.com/support/forum2/viewtopic.php?p=28403
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Just a quick heads up that LumenRT version 1.3 update is now available (download it from your e-on Software account page). Key new features:
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Support for "face-me" components - they will now all face the camera in LumenRT just like in Sketchup
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You can add a custom company logo to show on the splash screen of the LumenRT Live Cubes.
We are still working to correct a few issues with LumenRT on Mac OSX Lion. Also, a demo version of LumenRT will be available shortly.
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Such a bad luck, I bought this software couple weeks ago, and I still couldn't use it due to license error which is strange for me, why the developer took so long to resolve this. oh and one more thing, this program won't run at all on my machine. and I am still awaiting an update from them.
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@rfox said:
Such a bad luck, I bought this software couple weeks ago, and I still couldn't use it due to license error which is strange for me, why the developer took so long to resolve this. oh and one more thing, this program won't run at all on my machine. and I am still awaiting an update from them.
rfox,
Can you send me an email to dburdick@e-onsoftware.com with all the information about your problem and I'll see to it that the problem gets fixed.
Thanks
Dave
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@dburdick said:
Just a quick heads up that LumenRT version 1.3 update is now available (download it from your e-on Software account page). Key new features:
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Support for "face-me" components - they will now all face the camera in LumenRT just like in Sketchup
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You can add a custom company logo to show on the splash screen of the LumenRT Live Cubes.
We are still working to correct a few issues with LumenRT on Mac OSX Lion. Also, a demo version of LumenRT will be available shortly.
Sweet...what I've been waiting for.
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@Dave ...I've forwarded the issue to your e-mail. thank you
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RFOX...Personnaly I always find it suspicious about a soft when there's no démo version.
To say the truth, and without presuming qualities of the soft, many users invested in a soft we are claiming a demo version for so many weeks.
Dont take it to hard e-on team but how can it be? IMO it demonstrates a strange lack of reactivity! -
I agree with Archigrafix,
also expires in a few days to promote the acquisition and will change from $ 195 to $ 295! -
i also have a question.. we 3 frds bought lumenrt ( students, and will work only in my pc). my question is why the hell lumenrt crashes. when ever i render a project it crases on 82 some time on 1 precents.. i hav only exported 2 o my projects and its making me sick.. we are student.. and it costs like a month expenses for the whole averae family here in our country
.my pc specs are
intel core i7 860 @2.80ghz
4 gb of ram
nvidia 220 graphic card....i know my graphic card is poor one but i have tried lumion free on it and its working very smoothly.. besides i still didn't try superior quality just tired the thee review and draft quality . i am gona cry seriously that was ours pocket money that we spent on lumenrt and now :XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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