Lumion 2023 | Should you upgrade? | Hands on impression | Is Lumion Ray tracing worth it? Find out!

[@nathanscottsmall]

Their pricing is absolutely insane, I dont know how they got the go ahead for this

[@zafir7007]

I'm sticking to twinmotion 2023

[@3DDeals]

Not a bad choice at all! TwinMotion had some major updates and they have the backing of Epic games!

[@landshaperstudio]

Seems like another $3k upgrade just to partially be brought up to date with it's cheaper/free competitors. Other than the camera ratio's, nothing here that we haven't had for cheaper for quite some time :/

[@3DDeals]

Yup, sadly this seems to be the case. I personally can't justify why I should pay monthly for this while 12.5 is still really good

[@clearstoryimaging]

@@3DDeals They don't actually let you pay monthly. You have to pay the full $1300 US for the year up front. or $3K for 3 years. Basically they have the exact same pricing, they just rearranged the marketing to make it look cheaper.

[@3DDeals]

@@clearstoryimaging ​ I mostly mean the fact that you lose it if you stop paying, while a perpetual license was something I prefer much more. I am not a fan of all these tools turning into monthly subscription packages

[@erikfrandsen8249]

Got it for $750 by preordering it in December

[@gimoy]

@@3DDeals This new marketing (subs) they have is just like forcing you to upgrade every year. I'm still using my lumion 11.5, no plans of upgrading yet.

[@marerubrum]

D5 and Enscape for the win

[@3DDeals]

Both are excellent alternatives

[@NiembaGrace]

I have an rtx 3070 lumion 23 works correctly, but when I try to use the ray tracing option automatically lumion turns off, could you help me solve this problem! thanks in advance

[@audioLME]

any "before/after" images with and without raytracing to see actual difference ?

[@artevo]

3:57

[@eviltlaloc]

But RT is support only partialy... not RT for glass, not RT for Vegetation, not RT for wather, and.. man.. i dont know, for me RT kills these beautiful shadows of the skylight.

[@3DDeals]

You are right, It feels like it's not complete right now. The question is how will it look like in 6 months to a year from now.

[@nnay00]

@@3DDeals we can wait 10y too but lumion is overtaken by UE5 used by his competitors and im afraid they don’t have the ressources to fight on the same level now.

[@rennycepeda6576]

@@eviltlaloc damn that sucks

[@kiransurwade3576]

Can we import camera from Maya?

[@3DDeals]

Yes you can, more information here : support.lumion.com/hc/en-us/articles/7905097528476-How-do-you-import-a-Camera-Path-into-Lumion-

[@jamesamagu4925]

Can you put me through on how to do good animation in Lumion 12 pro please

[@3DDeals]

Sure gonne make a video for you this week :)

[@MrDedisetyadi]

I bought Lumion 8 Pro...now I am Crying

[@3DDeals]

oh boy! There are a ton of alternatives on the market. How does your toolset look like? so which packages do you use?

[@sirrodneyffing1]

I gave up on it after 8.5.

[@brunobordini7696]

@@sirrodneyffing1 I gave up on 5! Went back to V-Ray Next and now Corona and D5!

[@prostoCAD]

Yes, 2023 is the end point on Lumion. Our company will no longer use it for projects. Let's look for something else. This update is a nightmare. I have never seen so much low-quality content for such money. Good luck, of course, but now without us !!!))))

[@huaweig7491]

Not worthy ! I guess it's much better to work with Vray/Vantage

[@3DDeals]

Vray is a good alternative, you can for example also combine it with Enscape

[@brunobordini7696]

''Should you upgrade?'' - No, it's looking pretty bad! The viewport looks bad for a realtime render engine, this raytrace is too slow compared to pathtracing in twinmotion and it's a 100 miles behind D5 or Enscape! This interface with floating windows are distracting! They copied the material slot icon from v-ray. What about those prices? Just go D5 and TM, both are free and much more appealing and realistic! Lumion did not care for users until now and they know they made bad decisions when they were on top! Let them fight to survive now!

[@adamc4443]

Calling it now - RIP Lumion in 2024