Lumion 2023.0 also extends the software’s PBR material system to support eight map types, now including metalness, emissive strength, reflectivity and opacity.īoth editions of the software get support for subsurface scattering, for recreating translucent materials like marble and the Pro edition gets a clearcoat material layer for recreating car paint and varnished surfaces.
Materials: new PBR map types, subsurface scattering and clearcoat materials Presumably as a result of the new render engine, the update is compatibility-breaking, so projects and models saved in Lumion 2023.0 can not be opened in older versions of the software. The new Ray Tracing Effect is supported on both AMD and Nvidia GPUs – although not currently Intel Arc – with renders falling back to rasterisation on older cards. The change will bring Lumion into line with other real-time visualisation tools like Enscape and Twinmotion, which already support hardware-accelerated ray tracing.Īccording to Act-3D’s blog post, “while ray tracing technology has been around for a while, the decision to bring it into Lumion now is guided by accessibility, stability, speed and experience”. The key change in Lumion 2023.0 is support for ray tracing: its new hybrid rasterisation/ray tracing render engine makes it possible to create physically accurate lighting, shadows and reflections in renders.
Lumion 2023.0: GPU-agnostic real-time tracing They can then edit materials inside Lumion, set up lighting and weather effects, dress the scene using readymade models from the accompanying asset library, and create simple camera animations. Users import building models from other software, either in standard 3D file formats like FBX, OBJ, SKP and MAX, or via built-in live links to major CAD applications. The software is intended to provide architects with little background in visualisation with a more straightforward way to create realistic stills and animations than conventional DCC apps. The compatibility-breaking update adds a new hybrid render engine with support for real-time ray tracing on both AMD and Nvidia GPUs, and extends the software’s PBR material system.Īct-3D has also now discontinued perpetual licences of the software, making Lumion subscription-only.Īn easy-to-use near-real-time tool for architectural visualisation workįirst released in 2010, and now one of the three most widely used renderers for arch viz work, Lumion creates renders of architectural scenes in near real time. Act-3D has released Lumion 2023.0, the next major version of its real-time visualisation software.
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