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[Denis Reis]

Oh wow great to see what you guys can do with Lumion.

 

I'm still a rookie, but figuring things out

 

Here's what I've been working on lately...

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[Allen McDonnell]

quick tip...

 

Go into example scenes and save the "effect stacks"....then use them when setting up your shots.

 

Dont forget the reflection control globe and then assign the real glass textures...they have it different in Lumion 10 but in 9 and prior i believe i used 5 or so on reflection amount.

[Nick Moorhead]

Hey Allen!

 

Have you experimented with the 'Photo Matching' feature in Lumion 10 yet?? Form what I was watching on YouTube, it looks like a very cool feature for customers trying to envision home designs on their lot. I am trying to sell this to my team as a reason to upgrade to Lumion 10 

[Allen McDonnell]

No.  Not yet.  But honestly i would push "high quality preview".  With high quality preview i have went from 40-80 (or more as i am picky) sample renders to basically one run of "final" renders....The high quality preview allows you to instantly see your rendered output (at 95% accuracy).  Im able to play with sun settings and locations a lot better...and do a lot of fine tuning very quickly. 

 

Also when sitting with clients you can use this to quickly show clients the lighting effects on a house.  I have to continually pick up my clients jaws off the floor as we navigate their home with lumion.

 

check out this one minute video

 

https://www.youtube....JXLDvhl&index=7

 

Oh...and another thing youll love.....they had added a forest environment to the start menu...it is AWESOME.  So i just open that...import model (move trees as needed)....texture, add entourage, add lights, set up photos...done.

 

the forest environment is (center pic top row) and a tropical environment is (right side top row pic)...Havent used it yet but there is a suburban environment (center pic bottom row) that looks cool.  When i import SP project into L i have the property all set up so ill have to figure out how i can use that efficiently.

 

Happy rendering!!!!!!

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[Allen McDonnell]

Hey Allen!

 

Have you experimented with the 'Photo Matching' feature in Lumion 10 yet?? Form what I was watching on YouTube, it looks like a very cool feature for customers trying to envision home designs on their lot. I am trying to sell this to my team as a reason to upgrade to Lumion 10 

Ill keep you posted on this.  I need to learn how to do it.

[Nick Moorhead]

very cool! I am excited about the native "forest scenes". Up until now, I have saved out and modified the example scenes that come stocked with the program like the Farnsworth house..etc. I have been looking for fast options for creating quick landscapes and have had no luck so far until you presented this. Like I said awhile ago I think, it would be neat to show a home on a golf course of something cool like that. 

 

It seems the 'Photo Matching' is only for 2D renders for now (I think it would be hard to make it work in 3D unless it was a 360 pano images) but that would certainly provide some creative scenes and lots for sure. 

 

The render preview is pretty neat too. I usually just render out 2D images to get a feel for my effect stacks, but this could save lots of time I'm sure. Glad you are getting great feedback from your customers with your Lumion renders! Keep up the good work!

[Allen McDonnell]

large remodel im working on...need to find the existing picture.

 

really liking the precipitation effect.  been adding this to all my renders.  setttings attached.

 

Originally i stretched the false gable (above front door) all the way to the left to blend in with the hip...but then the window in the false

gable wasn't centered above the door...so i shrunk it.  will make the final decision on site.

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[Allen McDonnell]

Example

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[GENE GILES]

Cool stuff Nick

[Nick Moorhead]

Wellllllll... Christmas came early and after I wrap up my latest render here, I am downloading Lumion 10! The photo matching feature really sealed the deal, ha. It will be nice to show 2D high quality renderings on real sites as well as have the other new features that 10 brings to the table. Still waiting for that Softplan live-sync though....

[Jon Davis]

I downloaded the free trial. It kept telling me my PC was TOO SLOW for the software, which I knew but... That will soon be resolved

 

I was able to kick this out in the 30 min it took since every command froze my PC... lol

 

Not bad for a first attemp not knowing what I Was doing, and doing it with an old PC

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[Allen McDonnell]

You will not regret learning Lumion.  Here are a couple pros to learn from.

 

https://www.youtube....O5xlVJDKdmXU8qw

 

https://www.youtube....YuAXHsbSyv0wpoA

[Allen McDonnell]

Nick, let me know if you have any ideas....

 

http://softplan.com/...c-for-softplan/

[Allen McDonnell]

Interesting comment from Chris regarding high quality preview.

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[Nick Moorhead]

Nick, let me know if you have any ideas....

 

http://softplan.com/...c-for-softplan/

 

 

Say whaaaaat..!? I though Softplan had to make this happen? How does Lumion  go about doing this? 

 

I think a poll of users is a great idea. I am sure as more and more SP users sign on they will make one.

[Allen McDonnell]

I know...here is the feedback i received from Chris.

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[Allen McDonnell]

You would think with the literal thousands of dollars we pay them they could make it happen.  Ive sent them around 4500 or so this year....And as i see it will do so every year from here on out.

[Nick Moorhead]

Hey Allen! at least we can say we tried! It really shouldn't be up to average users of both platforms (SP and Lumion) to facilitate this. You would think that the SP marketing team would be beating down the doors for the publicity that cross-platforming can bring. 

 

 

Its nice that you and Chris have a good relationship by you reaching out. I like his videos a lot! 

 

Maybe we will get some movement on this. Christmas is coming after all!!

[Jeffrey Elliott]

One point to make is that when you go to better renders you better have better hardware.  

[Allen McDonnell]

I appreciate that.  However, my computer is my one tool i use and i work 10-12 hours a day.  I would have the same computer specs even if i only used SP.  To each his own.