Greggoid Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Hi, I have become enamored with the output from Lumion that I have seen working as an exhibit designer. I have been rendering using Renderworks for 8 years and have overall been happy with the results. Where I get frustrated is when I start to add realism such as glows, lighting, reflection, bump. I certainly expect the rendering time to increase, but I've had renderings take 20 + hours. I am tweaking certain settings to speed things along, but timing seems to be an issue. From what I've understood from forums and word of mouth, Lumion is a great, intuitive rendering solution that tends to put out fairly quick renderings that are equal to greater in quality than renderworks. I am sure mouch of this comes down to program aptitude, but it led me to investigate further. I didn't make it far before I learned Lumion is ONLY PC based. Our office is 100% mac and not going anywhere else anytime soon. Has anybody figured out ways to render images that have a certain watercolor effect similar to Lumion's Color Sketch style? Additionally, has anybody found another program similar to Lumion that is operable on Macs? Thanks, Gregg Quote Link to comment
markdd Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Try TwinMotion. Its available for MAC and looks like it is cheaper too. Quote Link to comment
twk Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 ahh mark beat me to it.. 🙂 We use Lumion. But Twinmotion 2019 is similar, and also available on Mac Quote Link to comment
Greggoid Posted October 22, 2018 Author Share Posted October 22, 2018 Thanks! Twinmotion looks pretty good. Not quite as good, but very similar. I am really after the Color Sketch rendering style lumion offers, but figure I may have to try to replicate in photoshop....OR convince my office to bootcamp my mac and pay up for Lumion 🙂 Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Popular Post PVA - Admin Posted November 27, 2018 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Popular Post Share Posted November 27, 2018 Oh man the output from Lumion is stunning, even right out of the box. This really does seem to be the drop-in solution for users who want a degree of control, but want the engine to handle the majority of the complex work.This was me slapping around some of the default settings in one of their test scenes and then rendering all within 5 minutes: Lovely sheen on the glass, nice clean reflection on the bulbs, quickly displaced stacked stone and nice variation in the various tone on the light sources, all within a minute due to their EXCELLENT (and GPU-based) render speed. Time to see what I can do with my previous best renders dropped into it. 6 Quote Link to comment
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