Lumion 8 is just amazing!!
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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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Great video Paul. You've upped your fly-through game continuously and this looks like it'll be a great tool in your hands!
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@pbacot said:
...and this looks like it'll be a great tool in your hands!
which is absolutely right, since Paul has to show impressive good and beautiful models always 
@ Paul - as far as I know, Lumion brings its own library of vegetation and even grass. Did you use this for the shown rendering animation
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Thank yous twos!
hornoxx
The plants and trees are all lumion. The grass is modeled in sketchup and then replaced with lumion landscape grass. -
@pmolson said:
1920x1080 60fps - 13 hours to run on single gtx 1080 - no post processing
Any specific reason for going 60fps instead of 30 (29.94)?
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There's a teaser for Lumion 9 on Youtube. Looks like true IBL lighting and environments. Also looks like fur-like grass maybe.
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Yeah I saw that.
Looks like I can upgrade for about 500 bucks which is not insignificant in that I just purchased it a few months ago.
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PMOLSON: I got access to Lumion 8.5, just wondering your 13Hrs Animation render?
Is that how long does it take to render a house? reason why i am asking is
I want to upgrade to 9 because of the new features.
Also i am using Enscape 2.4 a large shopping mall complex fly through in and out the park.
4K animation will only take less than an hour. Thanks Cheers
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