Lumion is the world's fastest 3D rendering software for architects. In seconds, you can visualize CAD models in a video or image with real-life environments and striking artistic flair.Import your model from Revit, 3ds Max, SketchUp, AutoCAD, Rhino or ArchiCAD, among many other modeling programs, and Lumion instantly breathes life into your designs with realistic landscapes and urban context, stylish effects, and thousands of objects and materials from the content library.

What’s new in v11 -
Orthographic views. Animated phasing. Raindrops streaking down the glass. Lumion 11 includes exciting new features and tools to help you breathe life into rendering and create beautiful results.

Close your eyes and visualize the real-life construction of your design. What do you see? How does it feel?
With Lumion 11, available today, realizing your vision for the design has never been easier. New features such as orthographic views reduce the effort needed to create plan and section views full of life, color and your own unique flavor. With animated phasing, you can show how the parts of your building connect and interact, creating a dance and a dialogue with the viewer.

Raindrops streak down the glass, volumetric fire casts a soft glow. The grass is softer, the light and shadow are more precise. From a wave of workflow and performance improvements to innovative features that capture the nuances of life, Lumion 11 energizes your professional output, brings joy to the rendering process, and helps you, the architect, focus on what really matters to you.

Orthographic views
Plan views. Section views. From elevations to isometric.
The new orthographic view feature in Lumion 11 lets you embed life, color and texture into all of your technical renderings. Instantly transform your standard documents into polished, one-of-a-kind images and videos, and maintain continuity with your other renderings without having to rely on other software.
You can make exciting, lively plans, sections, elevations and isometric views in just a few clicks, and express the simple yet beautiful perspectives of your vision throughout the design process

Animated phasing (Pro only)
Begin with a blank landscape. Slowly, trees rise from the ground. The walls of a residential home materialize as if out of thin air, and the living room, bedroom, and kitchen furniture fall into place from the sky.
With the new animated phasing effect, you can show the process behind your design’s development or construction through the power of animation. Apply different transitions, make parts of your building appear and disappear and highlight what makes your building creative and unique.

Rain streaks (Pro only)
When it’s raining and you don’t need to go outside, you get to curl up on the couch with a warm tea, turn on some soft music, and watch the raindrops streak across the glass.
In moments like this, it’s easy to feel a sense of peace, of comfort, or perhaps a joyful melancholy. And now in Lumion 11, you can capture this universal mood with the new rain streaks option as part of the Precipitation effect. With only a slight movement of the slider, dozens of dynamic, intelligent raindrops move down glass surfaces, a gripping detail that would otherwise take hours to get right.

Volumetric fire (Pro only)
The soft glow of fire tends to draw people together, and in Lumion 11, you can tap into the warm and welcoming atmosphere of fire with the new volumetric fire object. Simply add the new fire to cast a feeling of coziness and warmth to your interior and exterior renders, creating an uplifting mood that naturally attracts your audience into the space.

Micro shadows for spotlights
When you turn on the fine-detail shadows in Lumion 11, the new micro shadows for spotlights activate and infuse a soft gradient of shadow into all the tiniest details wherever you shine a spotlight.
There is no extra step needed. With just a click, you’ll create a sense of depth and realism that pulls you right into the scene.

Improved grass lighting
In Lumion 11, the improved grass lighting technology helps connect your building design to the earth where it stands, turning the visual thrill of your renderings into a sensory one.
Without any effort required from you, all the grass materials, including the customizable 3D grass and the landscape grass, look as if they’re softer and more representative of real-life landscapes.

Metallic car shader (Pro only)
With the new metallic car shader in Lumion 11 Pro, the cars in your renders take on an impressive realistic quality, making them barely distinguishable from the real thing. Every element, every light throughout your render, reflects off the car’s chassis and windows, instantly and organically integrating the car into the project’s surroundings.

401 new objects (some Pro only)
Rendering life into your renders means more than visualizing four walls and roof. It means revealing your house design in a forest of ginkgo balboas or Canadian poplars. It means showing the innocence of a child’s bedroom with stuffed animals and furniture, or capturing an air of sophistication with stylish chairs, tables, bookshelves and more.

Some of the new objects in Lumion 11 Pro include -
– 61 fine-detail nature models
– 177 interior models
– 49 people and animals (some animated)
– And many others…