Lumion Ingratiation is Amazing

[Tom Klaber]

Just to break up my endless rants of complaints and grumblings - I want to publically state how great the Lumion Live sync integration is.  We are evaluating with a trial version now and we are so impressed.

 

So I have spent about a day teaching myself Lumion.

I then upgraded to Lumion Pro Trial which caused me to lose all the work that I did the regular trial, but then did give me a good benchmark of how fastI can create a scene with a properly set up VW model.  Of course in reality - there is back and forth - and the VW model has tweaked life - which is amazing.  Though as we go forward, we expect to get better at building and texturing our models in a way that makes the Lumion process faster from the beginning (namely - simply texturing everything in VW to allow for retexturing in Lumion).

 

Anyway... I whet from my VW model that looked like this;

to these renderings in about an hour - not including the rendering time - which was about 2-4 minutes per image at "Print" resolution. 

 

We are very pleased with the effort to results ratio with this workflow.  

Edited May 30, 2019 by Tom Klaber

[Kevin Allen]

Were the textures created and assigned in VWX? The Lighting?

[Tom Klaber]

@Kevin Allen 

A mix, though mostly assigned in Lumion - as you can see in the VWX model - we used colours to distinguish textures then assigned them in Lumion.  We though the texture library would be slightly better than it is in Lumion, which is why we did it that way. 

 

But this is not how I would do it moving forward.  Lumion is very good at bringing the Diffuse map in, and so it is better to create the texture in VW, then modify the gloss, reflectivity in Lumion, rather than creating it from scratch in Lumion.  

 

There are no lights other the skylight in Lumion.  That is one of my favourite things so far - is that it is REALLY easy to get nice daylight.  We have not gotten into placing lights in the Lumion model for night and evening shots yet. 

[TomKen]

I did some nice video and images in the previous trial version of Lumion.  I was very pleased with the outcome alas I find it hard to justify the price tag of the software.   

[James H.]

2 hours ago, Tom Klaber said:

 

 

Hi Tom. Awesome Renders! Can you say if Lumion create the sun lens flare seen in this interior render or was that added in post?

[Tom Klaber]

@James H. 

That is straight out of Lumion.  They have a rendering filter that adds a more camera accurate flare - but this is not that.  They have some live flare effect - that causes this even when you are walking around the model.  I love it - my partner thinks it is annoying. 

[Jim W]

Isn't it freaking DOPE!? 

In general, you CAN do texturing in Vectorworks and Lumion will show them just fine, but their library has more advanced textures and supports more types of layered shaders in materials than Vectorworks does. I found it was best leaving the geometry and assignment of material by class to the Vectorworks side, and then do replacement of textures, lighting, water, moving objects and custom texture mapping in Lumion.

[OliverS]

Hi All,

 

Wondering if you all have any tips or comment on the following. 

We are looking to resolve the issue of being too far from the internal origin when exporting the .dae file. When imported to Lumion it cannot be seen. 

 

The model is located in Vectorworks based on geo referenced data which we need to preserve. Where adding a user origin prior to export of a dwg, this will change the dwg origin. A user origin does not seem to change the origin of the .dae file. 

 

A workflow with design layer viewports will probably work, this is a but more involved and coordinating back with consultants using georeferenced data may be tricky.

 

Finally, we have not yet upgraded to Lumion 9.3 to try LiveSync. are the same origin issues going to persist or is this handled in some other manner with LiveSync?

 

Thanks, Oliver.

 

[Ross Harris]

On 5/31/2019 at 4:51 AM, Tom Klaber said:

I love it - my partner thinks it is annoying

Lol like JJ Abrams films... some hate but I love a good ol’ flare - it’s kinda become his thing!

 

Awesome renders - will have to get the demo... the Twinmotion integration (if it happens) could be a while... 😕