My opinion is that Thea, Vray (and similar products) are ideal if you create your 3d objects and details within sketchup, meaning your materials are good quality, colours are accurate and your objects are exactly as you specify…maybe from a manufacturer catalogue. So, other than the unbiased/biased thing, why would you choose either? You can, however, render 1000s frames in Thea and make a walkthrough video, though it will take some time (overnight maybe). You may be talking 1-2 minutes per frame (or more), as opposed to 0.03 to 2 seconds per frame for Lumion. You can’t do that with Vray because it renders frame by frame. This gives an excellent user experience for your customers and can be very immersive (especially with VR).
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Unbiased renderers like Lumion are actually so fast that they can allow you to “walk around” inside the rendered environment, completed with all shadows, lighting, and even animations being rendered in “real time”. The image outputs may look similar, but to an architect, industrial or interior designer they could be very important differences eg in the amount of light reaching a space. This means it utilises technical shortcuts for simulating lighting and material appearances. This realism comes at the expense of rendering speed, but is essential if your aim is to assess colour, light and materials in a realistic way. This means it has realistic lighting, reflections (ray traced), material and shadow properties. This question (and similar ones) seem to come up regularly on this forum. What other things should I be thinking about? I like that v-ray is integrated in SketchUp so if there are design changes I don’t need to re-upload a model and switch computers again. Time is a big limiting factor because I get busy quickly so I would like quick results that are still high quality (i read lumion is better overall for quick results)
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I use a newer MacBook pro for everything now but would purchase a desktop to run windows if i choose lumion (might be tricky to switch back and forth between the two) I mostly model pools, decks, pavilions, patios, landscapes for residential homes.Ĭost isn’t an issue as it will be an investment. I have been weighing the pros and cons of each and would like some help deciding before investing a lot of time.
#Lumion 4 sketchup software
I plan to lear n a new rendering software but I’m having trouble deciding. I have experience with an older rendering software called Render back in college (seems a lot like v-ray) but i think its outdated now compared to v-ray or lumion. However be aware that these advantages of Vray might not yet apply for SketchUp yet because SketchUp lacks of features for motion pictures and CGI comparing to other design suites (3ds Max etc.).I work for a landscape design-build company and I have been using SketchUp for 10 years or so.
But Vray is more i’ve seen quite amount of industrial designers, motion picture studios, CGI artists using it. If you look at their websites/mottos, also Lumion and Vray showcase sections, we can easily say that their target audience is architectural firms. On the other hand Vray only has materials library and might be overwhelming because of the hard learning curve (but it got a lot better with new versions) but render results will be ‘better’ and more advanced for post processing (Lumion has no. Vray is for architects & designers to make their work desirably good (realistic or cartoony).Īs far as i read/watched/observed, Lumion’s prominent feature is being quite faster (especially exteriors) and having a huge library of objects, materials, sounds & effects ready to use (which makes it too expensive i think). Lumion is for architects and to make their workflow faster (with fast renders and ready-made library).
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It highly depends on for what purpose you’re going to use it. I haven’t used Lumion but i know Vray well enough.