Lumion is Architectural Software. Make an image, a video or a 360 panorama, which you can view with VR glasses. Render ultra fast. Make changes all the time.
Upload a 3D design (made with Revit, SketchUp Rhino, Archicad or many other 3D modelling programs) and upload your design into Lumion.
Lumion includes a large library with beautiful materials and objects. Dress up your model with sky, grass, glass, materials, people, lighting, furniture, cars etc. and add effects. Feel the space. It’s easy to learn. This render engine is the fastest in the world.
With Lumion anyone can make beautiful renders.
Jonathan D.
Advanced user of Lumion
★★★★★
One of the best for simple and fast output
What do you like best?
I like the impressive ratio speed/quality of the rendering process for both still and animation and the overall speed and simplicity of setting up and populating a scene. Import/reload process of models is relatively painless. With the right hardware it can cope with very vast and complex models and remain stable. The lumion team offers good technical support and are responsive. License are not subscription based so far.
What do you dislike?
Limited amount of advanced tools for animation is very restrictive, materials creation and management lacks refinements and functionalities, you can't import animated FBX, and the UI is not particularly intuitive or efficient. The asset library is a great starting point but the quality of the assets is sometimes inconsistent. It's great for tight deadlines but it remains a fairly expensive solution to buy and update every year thereafter. Cheaper solutions are catching up fast.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
Even with complex scene you can use it for real-time navigation and export realistic stills and animations. It's so fast (we are talking 1-3min to render a large fully populated architectural scene with most effects on) you can test design options very quickly and with a decent amount of realism, so it's certainly a plus for the designer and the client. You might not get the most realistic results but for most instances it's enough to convey an idea pretty accurately and the speed means you have more time to focus on the design itself.
Review source: G2.com
