Lumion 8 is just amazing!!
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It truly is a jump from 7 to 8, this is an amazing version with results that are mind-blowing.
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Damn impressive. Especially the PEOPLE! Anyone know how those people are created? Stunning. Pete, I await you review!
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i can say, the import of skp into lumion 8 works absolutely perfect, even with huge files.
the results are really amazing.
regards
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Lumion 8 VS Vray?
https://forum.lumion.com/gallery-best-works/lumion-8-vs-vray-sketchup/
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I started some years ago with Lumion 5.
I was a Fryrender and later Thea-User, but more like a hobbyist/semiprofessional.
Every year there is a new version of Lumion. Every year there is the discussion that it is too expensive.
I only can say that every year Lumion makes such a huge step in terms of quality of the renderengine and also number of objects and usability, that I always like what I see and pay for it.
I had more crashes with Excel than with Lumion.
The support on the forum is superb.
I'm so fast because of a great pool of objects and materials and lights and so on by only drag'n drop it into my scene. People can be animatid, plants are influenced by the wind. I can change the weather in realtime. It's possible to make animations, a kind of video- and title-editor is integrated.
All features usable by a GUI which is for me as easy as sketchup.I'm so fast because Lumion is fast in rendering.
With the new V8 the render quality even for interiors has made such a huge step that Thearender will get dusty for my projects.
Lumion still lacks of some features (displacement for example), but for me it's my tool of choice.Here a fast test of a sketchup-scene by Alejandro Garcia: https://youtu.be/B8NzrvWPhC4
I've rendered that over night about 7 hours on my notebook with a GTX 980, 8 GB, Windows 10 Pro with the highest quality-level 5 stars. -
Lumion 8 is looking good. The price though...
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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.
It is also too bad for me since I am on a MAC and I know Lumion will not add a MAC version to their mix. -
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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