Overview of what’s new in Lumion 11

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

All the new objects are HD quality, and the recent additions bring the total number of items in the Lumion 11 Pro content library to 6,224*.

With 63 new materials in Lumion 11, you can immerse your clients into a sensory experience, igniting memories of touch, smell, sound and sight. The new high-quality materials in Lumion 11 include:

– 17 wood floors and sidings
– 5 carpets
– 5 bricks
– 3 slate panels
– 3 sandstone tiles
– 2 asphalts
– 2 snow
– And many others…

Many of the materials in Lumion are of the highest quality, and they can be altered via displacement, weathering, soft edges (Pro only) and more. With the new additions, the total number of materials in Lumion 11 is 1,292*.