The next option is a program called Lumion, which was designed based on the object-oriented analysis approach of Quest 3D, a virtual reality program designed for 3D fly-throughs and simulations. You can watch a promo film below, and read a review of it here.
Normally price at $295, the program is currently on sale for $195 at their site. The company’s site advises that you may experience slower processing speeds if your model exceeds 40,000 square feet or 500,000 polys. The program boast very accurate lighting and reflection effects and this affects the render speed. The downside is that once this is done, if you make any changes you need to recompute everything. Unlike the other programs I’ll discuss, there is a calculation process involved that does take more time but the advantage of this is that you can output what is called a LiveCube, which is an executable file you can send to anyone that they can navigate in and explore the model without the need for any software. This is a real-time rendering engine designed for use with Sketchup, but is currently being developed for use with other modeling software. The least expensive option I’m aware of is LumenRT.
Lumenrt 2015 review full#
While not cheap, there are a number of real-time, full motion options that cut the normal still-image render time from hours to seconds.
Lumenrt 2015 review software#
The new wave in rendering software is for real-time execution with full motion and lighting effects as well as physical atmospheric effects like water, fog, etc. The giant rendering farms of the Far East may soon be a thing of the past.Ĭreating renders, at least for me, is a tedious affair that ends up eating hours of time while processing images, and renders ( pun intended ) my computer a slave to the rendering engine, useless for working on anything else. Because of the advances in processor speeds and the continuing evolution of software programming, animators are beginning to be able to animate in real time. An article at PC last November talked about how real-time rendering is changing the movies, mainly in terms of how it affects the workflow and the time involved in creating animated films.
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