Netherlands-based Act-3D announced the release of the latest version of their real-time architectural visualization software, which now offers tools for indoor lighting, night scenes and improved animation capabilities. New features include:
– Additional importers – The importing system has been extended with support for Autodesk DWG and DXF file formats. Additionally, a special COLLADA plugin for Autodesk Revit has been included. Last but not least, performance and memory optimizations make importing of complex 3D content faster.
– Indoor & Outdoor Lighting – Lumion 2 provides tools for interior lighting. The new lighting features allow users to create indoor visualizations. To achieve believable indoor lighting, the entire material and shading system has been updated for enhanced realism. The new lighting system also improves outdoor visualizations, and allows users to create nighttime visualizations by including a re-engineered sky rendering system. The new sky system includes 3 cloud layers, different cloud shapes and a spectrum of colors. At night the sky transforms into a stars system, complete with a realistic moon and special night sky colorization and cloud lighting.
– Animation – Several new animation effects make it easier to animate objects, such as curved paths and an editor for cross section animations.
– 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.
– Engine and editor optimizations – Lumion 2 brings many big and small engine and editor improvements, increasing performance and useability. Improved tonemapping, Screen Space Ambient Occlusion, lighting and shadows create even more realistic images and videos.
More information at Lumion’s website.
