LUMION VERSION 2 FEATURES:

Lumion uses real-time 3D technology for rendering.
This amazing technology of Lumion renders images in a
fraction of a second.

Indoor & Outdoor Lighting:

The updated architecture visualization software lifts visuals to a new level by providing several essential new features for architecture visualization.

Lumion 2 will take visualization indoors by providing quick and easy tools for interior lighting.

The new lighting features allow users to create an amazing atmosphere for indoor visualizations. To achieve believable indoor lighting, the entire material and shading system is updated for enhanced realism.

Not only does the new lighting improve indoor visualizations, it also raises the bar for outdoor visualizations because of the improvement in overall lighting.

New Effects:

Lumion 2 brings amazing new movie effects, such as a new pencil drawing style.

Several new animation effects will make it much easier to animate objects. In Lumion 2 you can now create curved paths instead of being restricted to strictly linear paths as in the first version of Lumion. This is great for animating vehicles, people and even parts of your design.

New functions in Lumion 2.0 allow for many other interesting animation effects. For example, items can be dropped from the sky into place. You can also now animate cross sections of your designs. Normally effects like these are difficult to set up. Lumion 2.0 makes complex tasks easier than ever.

New Content:

To complement the indoor lighting there will be a content pack available for Lumion 2.0. The new pack contains more than 160 furniture models and around 90 other objects such as waving flags and new vehicles.The existing character pack will be extended with several high quality 3D people.

For the lighting, there will be a completely new library of light types and even lampposts which can easily be placed in any scene.Future service packs will extend existing libraries. New materials will expand all the other object libraries.

Amazing Skies (Even at Night):

The new lighting also allows users the opportunity to create nighttime visualizations. To make this possible Lumion 2 will include a completely re-engineered sky rendering system.

The new sky system now includes 3 cloud layers, different cloud shapes and a spectacular spectrum of colors. At night the sky transforms into a magical spectacle of stars, complete with a realistic moon and special night sky colorization and cloud lighting.

Release Details:

Lumion 2.0 was released 15 December 2011.

The lighting features will be included in both Basic and Ultimate versions.

Version 2.1 was released in February 2012 with subsequent fixes and enhancements during February and March to V2.1 Build 4. More details about the changes once we get a chance to take a good look at it, but the major change is improved performance for rendering with lights.

From the Lumion dev Team:
- Shadow map caching for faster rendering of spotlight shadows
- New indoor and garden plants
- New position coordinates type-in boxes
- More responsive GUI, especially at low frame rates
- Optimized for more efficient memory usage
- Multilanguage GUI (Currently Dutch and English)
- The Lightmap material no longer flickers.
- Shadow filtering artifacts are no longer present on Print/Poster resolution images.

How to get Lumion 2 (Order):

Click here if you already have Lumion 1.0

Click here to buy Lumion 2.0 including free upgrades for minor versions in V2.

Note: The upgrade to Version 2.2.1 is immediately available.

See our Order and Pricing information for Lumion and Lumion Pro with discounts.

See our Pricing and Ordering page.

Overview:

Lumion Version 2 was released mid-December 2011. A new version update to Version 2.1 Build 4 was released 2 March 2012.

An overview of the new release is included here. Some older preview of the versions new features was made available on the Lumion site here, and at the forum, topic: Lumion 2.0 Preview!!!!, with further pictures of output available from the Development Inside Thread: Some additional shots of Lumion 2.0

Ordering of the new version is immediately available, and both full purchase and upgrade prices are included in our updated price list and purchasing page here.

The key again for Lumion is to produce the added features maintaining similar performance, render speeds and quality, a hallmark of Lumion, allowing users to gain from rapid, good quality images and video for client visualisations.

What's New in Version 2:

Open or download this PDF of our compilation of What's New in Version 2.

Other Resources:

For official Lumion product information: Lumion Product.

Some older preview information of the versions new features can be found at the forum, topic: Lumion 2.0 Preview!!!!, with further pictures of output available from the Development Inside Thread: Some additional shots of Lumion 2.0

Changes to the Product Range

Lumion 2.2 Update

Lumion V2 Changes

How to get Lumion

Topics:

Stunning visualizations : Rapidly

VERSION 2 RELEASE UPDATE FEATURES:

Update Changes for Verison 2.2:

- New models and high quality trees & plants (227 in total).
- New landscape materials.
- Updated Revit to Collada exporter.
- Terrain materials can now be combined any way you like.
- You can even import your own terrain textures.
- New Copy-Paste and Save/Load options for Standard materials.
- More workspace Layers (Maximum 20 Layers instead of 5).
- New clip keyframes export option in Photo mode.
- New background rendering mode so you can check your emails while it’s rendering.
- Improved ‘wet’ effect for shorelines
- Various other enhancements and bug fixes

Lumion® - Changing the visualization industry

New ground-breaking functionality in Lumion® Pro 2.2

Introducing Lumion® Pro
With Lumion® 2.2 we are expanding the Lumion® product range with a new top of the line version which is ideally suited for professional visualization studios: Lumion® Pro.

Lumion® Pro 2.2 takes architectural visualization to the next level with the brand new scene viewer mode, advanced output for compositing/post-processing purposes and much more.

Continuously Evolving:

Version 2.2 (v2.2.1) introduces a major re-alignment of the Lumion product range. Improvements include availability of Lumion Pro with advanced pro-rendering features, enhancements to materials and use of materials for terrains, more layers, significant content additions to the Library, background rendering etc.

Lumion (and existing Lumion Ultimate) now contains all existing content, and effects previously part of the plug-ins, raising the base level of the tool for users.

Lumion Pro takes architectural visualisation to the next level, introducing stand-alone viewer output for client presentation, advanced movie export features for compositing, effects and substantial content.

Export of G-buffer maps for compositing purposes (Lumion® Pro only).

In Lumion® Pro 2.2, you can now export a depth pass, normal pass, specular reflection pass, lighting pass, sky mask and Material ID pass for post-processing and video compositing purposes.

New framerate output options and movie resolutions (Lumion® Pro only).

- Lumion® Pro 2.2, introduces 3 new framerate options for movie renderings: 25/60/200FPS,
- as well as a new high-resolution movie output mode: WQHD 2560×1440.

New Effects (Lumion® Pro only):

New movie effects such as Fisheye Camera, Chromatic Abberations, White Balance and Selective Saturation help you achieve the desired look on your renderings.

Contrail Effect: Make your urban skies come to life with realistic animated aircraft contrails.

Collaborative team features (Lumion® Pro only):

Save and load complete scenes as a single file from any folder or network drive.

Collaborative team features.

Custom Standard materials

Import your own textures for use with the Lumion® terrain

New high-quality animated 3D people

New Effects

New Movie Options

Export of G-buffer maps for compositing

Save/load your own custom Standard materials. (Lumion® Pro and Ultimate)

Import your own textures for use with the Lumion® terrain. (Lumion® Pro and Ultimate).