The interface is relatively unobtrusive and simple to understand. You might be thinking “ I don’t have time to learn yet another modelling tool“, but if you spend any time at all in post production software like Photoshop, 3ds Max, After Effects or something similar, then Lumion does not represent a steep learning curve. For output and deliverables, you can easily export still images or rendered videos of the scenes that you have composed. It has a clean UI and extremely fast rendering capability. In a sense, it is a ‘complete’ visual presentation package, as it includes things like environments, backgrounds, materials, weather effects, water, entourage, vehicles, people, trees, landscape, furniture, terrain modelling, and it is all in a package that allows you to modify, manipulate and tweak basically everything in real-time. It makes it easy for you to take your BIM geometry, and put it into a real, living environment. You may be thinking “ I don’t have a clue how to make a fly-through animation“, but that is where Lumion lives. To start with, let’s consider whether Lumion can really add value to your current design and development pipeline. As usual, I have reviewed the software, but at the same time I am sharing practical tips and guidance on how to get up and running with Revit and Lumion. I received a review copy of Lumion 5.3, and tested it using Revit 2015 Update 7. Will it result in a better visual result?.Is using an additional presentation package, like Lumion, worth it?.Using RPC and Realistic display modes within Revit can achieve a certain result, but here are some questions: One area in which Revit has sometimes wavered is in pure visualization, particularly of the real-time and photorealistic variety. It has a solid parametric, data and intelligence engine, which can be extended in many ways through the expansive API. Due to the proliferation of excellent addins and addons, I now realise that Revit is positioning itself as the operating system of the BIM environment. In times past, I had this dream that Revit would be the sole answer to every single architectural and modelling question.
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