What is Lumion good for?

What can be done with Lumion?

Below, we’ll go through some applications you can achieve in Lumion.

1. LiveSync.
2. Urban planning & town design.
3. Lighting.
4. Street views.
5. Materials and textures.
6. Shared dreams.
7. Digital nature.
8. Design research.

Which is better Lumion or SketchUp?

Reviewers felt that Lumion meets the needs of their business better than SketchUp. When comparing quality of ongoing product support, reviewers felt that Lumion is the preferred option. For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of Lumion over SketchUp.

Do architects use Lumion?

Lumion is 3D rendering software made specifically for architects who want an easier, and faster, way to show their designs as beautiful, photorealistic renderings and artistic impressions.

What is the purpose of Lumion?

Lumion empowers you to express your vision as an image, video or 360 panorama, and it renders the results faster than most other 3D rendering programs out there. Lumion is designed to be effortless, transparent and stress-free.

Is Lumion good for interior rendering?

From living rooms to the workplace, Lumion makes it easy to render and show interiors with a realistic interplay of lighting and shadow, and lifelike materials with tactile textures. With Lumion’s large content library, it is easy to create lived-in and lively spaces.

Is Lumion hard to learn?

Nothing difficult, no complicated settings to adjust and everything intuitively easy to find. It’s as easy for a beginner as it is for an expert. These features in Lumion are like plug-and-play equipment.

Is Lumion like SketchUp?

Lumion is compatible with almost all 3D design software programs and it offers seamless import of native SketchUp (. skp) files. If you need to export your model as a different file type, such as DWG, COLLADA or FBX, Lumion’s broad compatibility makes it easy to import all of your models into one Lumion project.

Is Lumion free for Indian students?

All of the latest tools, features, effects and content in Lumion 12.3 Pro are now available and completely free for full-time students at universities, colleges and other higher learning institutions around the world.

Should I learn V-Ray or Lumion?

After comparing Vray vs Lumion, it was clear that Lumion is the better choice for us when doing full renderings. However, we won’t completely ditch Vray. It can still be used for things that have no textures or specialty lighting, so we may use it for quick studies like clay massing or simple models.

Can you draw in Lumion?

With the goal of drawing focus on your project’s general shape and form, the new hand-drawn outline effect in Lumion 8 makes it easy to highlight the mass of your conceptual or “hand-drawn” designs. It’s the bones of your design, rendered beautifully and easily.

Is Lumion a yearly license?

Thank you for your interest in Lumion. The license is a “perpetual” license. That means that after paying for the current version you can use the license without having to pay any further license fees if you so wish. There are no fixed, required monthly or annual etc licenses fees to pay.

How much RAM does Lumion need?

Does Lumion work on your current computer? Lumion requires a PC with a fast NVIDIA or AMD graphics card with at least 2GB memory. If your laptop PC has a slow graphics card with less memory, or, if it only has an Intel HD graphics card, then your laptop PC is unsuitable for Lumion.

Is Lumion a Mac?

No. Lumion cannot be installed on OSX, and there are no plans to make Lumion available on OSX.

How much space does Lumion take?

The PC running Lumion must be connected to the internet. Minimum 40 GB of free disk space in the drives where the Windows User Account and Documents folder are located in. If you are considering the purchase of a new PC, we do not recommend using these minimum requirements.

Is Lumion worth?

Lumion Ratings

“I used to use Lumion a couple years back because it let you create stunning images on low end hardware, with an awesome speed.” “One of the best tools for architectural projects.” “The software has the possibility to render both images and animations and this is very good compared to the competitors.”