Sunday, March 30th, 2025Posted by Jim ThackerLumion unveils Lumion Viewhtml PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"Lumion has unveiled Lumion View, a real-time visualization plugin for SketchUp.The new add-on is described as a lightweight design companion to Lumion, the standalone edition of the software, and is aimed at early-stage design workflows.Lumion View is currently available free in early access to Lumion users with Pro subscriptions.Lumion: an easy-to-use near-real-time tool for architectural visualisation workOne of the most widely used renderers for arch viz work, the standalone edition of Lumion creates renders of architectural scenes in near-real time.It is intended to provide architects with little background in visualization with a more straightforward way to create realistic stills and animations than standard DCC apps.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.They can then edit materials inside Lumion, set up lighting and weather effects, dress the scene from the accompanying asset library, and create simple camera animations.Lumion View: a new plugin integrating the rendering technology directly into SketchUpThe new Lumion View plugin cuts out the import and setup work, enabling users to visualize buildings in real time directly inside SketchUp, Trimbles architectural sketching software. Lumion pitches it as a tool for initial design work for exploring ideas and adjusting massing, lighting and materials that works alongside Lumion itself without duplication of effort.However, the plugin is capable of photorealistic output and can generate fast 4K renders, so it could presumably also be used for final-quality images.Currently free in early access to Lumion Pro subscribers ahead of a wider releaseLumion View is currently free in early access for users with Pro subscriptions to Lumion, ahead of the release of Lumion 2025.0, which will fully support workflow between the two.Lumion plans to make Lumion View compatible with Revit and other CAD software in future: you can register online to be notified of the wider release.Price, system requirements and release dateLumion View is currently available in early access for Lumion users with Pro subscriptions. Lumion hasnt announced pricing, system requirements or a date for a wider release.One-year subscriptions to Lumion itself cost $749/year for the standard edition; $1,499/year for the Pro edition. See a feature comparison for the two editions.Read more about Lumion View on the product websiteHave your say on this story by following CG Channel on Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). As well as being able to comment on stories, followers of our social media accounts can see videos we dont post on the site itself, including making-ofs for the latest VFX movies, animations, games cinematics and motion graphics projects.Latest NewsLumion unveils Lumion ViewNew real-time design exploration and visualization plugin lets users generate photorealistic 4K renders in SketchUp. Now in early access.Sunday, March 30th, 2025Master the art of Virtual Makeup Design with Neville PageDesign practical character makeup for movies and TV with the leading concept artist's new tutorial series for The Gnomon Workshop.Saturday, March 29th, 2025Autodesk releases Arnold 7.4.1Check out the latest features in the production renderer, including toon shading on GPU, and new HTML viewer for render statistics.Friday, March 28th, 20253DGS Render 3.0 lets you paint 3D Gaussian Splats in Blender3D scanning firm Kiri Innovations' free add-on now lets you paint onto 3DGS data inside Blender, including through texture images.Friday, March 28th, 2025Adobe releases Photoshop 26.5Check out the changes to the image-editing and retouching software, updating workflow in the Adjustment Presets layout.Thursday, March 27th, 2025Autodesk releases MotionBuilder 2026Update to the character animation and mocap-editing software extends USD workflows. Check out all the changes here.Thursday, March 27th, 2025More NewsAutodesk releases 3ds Max 2026Autodesk releases Maya 2026 and Maya Creative 2026Autodesk adds Golaem 9.2 to its Media & Entertainment CollectionZen Masters releases Zen UV 5.0Peregrine Labs ships Yeti 5.2Check out new open-source 3D character generator CharMorphPolygonflow releases new free version of DashUnity unveils its 2025 product roadmapUnity previews Unity 6.1Character Creator to get new MetaTailor pluginNVIDIA unveils Blackwell RTX PRO GPUs with up to 96GB VRAM5 key features in Blender 4.4Older Posts