Ria Solutions UK Ltd

Lumion is a real-time 3D visualization tool for making movies and still shots of architecture, planning and design. It is also possible to give live demonstrations.

The power of Lumion is that it offers excellent graphics in combination with a fast and efficient workflow, saving time, effort and money. Its amazing technology allows Lumion to render images in a fraction of a second!

Lumion Ultimate
Lumion comes in two editions: Basic and Ultimate. This page shows all the capabilities of both editions.

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Content

Content import

Lumion imports contents from 3D authoring tools, such as Google Sketchup, Autodesk products and many other software packages.

Some features:
- Imports DAE, FBX, MAX, 3DS, OBJ, DXF
- Imports TGA, DDS, PSD, JPG, BMP, HDR and PNG images
- Importing lightmaps is possible

Content library

Lumion also contains a content library with buildings, cars, people, animals, street furniture, roads, pavement, stones, hedges, etc.

144 Plants and trees (affected by wind)
54 Building types
20 Animated adults (walk cycles or idle animations)
20 Children (not animated)
26 Animated animals (birds, farm animals, pets, fish)
71 Cars, trucks, busses and boats
209 Miscellaneous models (street furniture, traffic signs, etc)

Material library

312 built-in materials
8 customizable material types (water, glass, billboard, lightmap etc)

Environments and weather

28 x Landscape types
6 x Water types
Customizable weather (Cloud cover, sun position etc)

Scene creation

Lumion provides scene creation using a full GPU based 3D interface and real-time editing. It provides landscape creation, adjustment of daylight, sun, sky, clouds and water. Highly optimized rendering makes adding tons of 3D content to the scene possible.

Some features:
Realistic water, several water types
Advanced sky and cloud rendering, animated clouds
Landscape rendering and editing, over 40 landscape themes
Accurate measurements to place objects, marker tools for precise placement
Easy material editing, 321 materials in the content
library

Output to movies and images

Users can create movies by simply taking photographs of their scene. The camera path between the photographs is automatically generated.

Some features:

Output to MP4 and picture sequence, maximum resolution 1080p
Support for print-resolution still images, maximum resolution is 7680×4320
Edit Camera speed, smoothness, view angle
Animate objects and create sky/sun animations
Edit scene effects, such as object movement, sky/sun animations
Add title screen and post processor effects
2D and 3D formats for side-by-side stereoscopic 3D playback

Theater mode

Using theater mode, giving live demonstrations of your scene is very easy.

Some features:

Quality level adjustment for speeding up rendering on low-end machines

Requirements

- Requires Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7
- Requires NVidia GeForce 8800 or similar ATI/AMD
- NVidia 260GTX / ATI 5850 or faster recommended