Start The New Year With Lumion  Related: 3D, Lumion   Lumion 4.0
is targeted as architectural previs, but focuses on a very
direct, real-time approach without bogging the user down with a
lot of irrelevant technical nuances. In short, you import your
models and spruce them up with an extensive library of built-in
assets and materials and render then in near-real-time. Point is
that when you show your client, or potential clients, your stuff
it looks prettier than the stuff coming from the competing firm
down the road and was extremely fast to previs - like an
experienced user can bang out a great looking previs in under an
hour from start to finish... animated!  For high quality previs
you used to have to either ship your models to a firm that
specialized in it, or hire an in-house 3ds Max guy whose entire
job was previs.   These are all real-time, interactive screen
shots. The water looks pretty amazing both above and beneath the
waves, complete with automatic shoreline foam.   Lumion changes
some of that in