Turn it on and immediately adopt the SketchUp camera perspective, making your work easier, faster and more enjoyable. LiveSync now enables live point-of-view synchronization. As you continue to develop the design, you can tweak the materials exactly to your liking and then save your material layouts for future rendering. Instantly breathe life into your synced SketchUp model by applying any of Lumion’s 1000+ high-definition materials in the Lumion editor. Beautiful materials make the design 'pop', while photo-realistic lighting suddenly heightens your sense of environment, realism and depth. Change the SketchUp model’s shape and you’ll see these changes taking place, in real-time, in Lumion’s breathtaking, lifelike environment.Īs you continue modeling in SketchUp, you can simultaneously view your project in Lumion surrounded by an immersive, fully featured landscape (mountains, water, grass). Immediately set up a live, real-time visualization between SketchUp and Lumion. You will need Lumion 8.3 (or above) and SketchUp 2017 (or above).

The Lumion LiveSync for SketchUp plug-in allows you to model your SketchUp design in a beautiful environment that’s so realistic, it’s like you’re pushing and pulling real-life buildings into shape. This coming from experience using other 3d software which are far friendlier to use.3. Also, its interface can be confusing sometimes. I find the internal library lacking models but Lumion keeps improving their 3d library in every new version released. Your 3d models created are imported into the software and you populate the scene with its internal library. So you do not need to render every time you create a new effect just to see how it looks like. What's cool is that you can create and populate the scene in real-time with effects like playing a video game. I can even create bokeh effects, depth of field, camera shakes and many more. It renders faster than any other rendering plugin software and quality is even better.

It saves time to create 3d environments around you model that you want to showcase, has realtime sun and night setting, creating oceans, landscapes, trees with ease which are pre-animated and according to physics. It may be a bit of a learning curve but I would prefer Lumion to create animations compared to other 3d applications I have used over the years. It saves time for creating superb animation walkthroughs/flythroughs and stunning images.

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