Lumion 11 New Feature (Quick Overview)
Lumion 11.0: Release Notes
Link to section below: 1. New feature highlights
Link to section below: 2. Other new features & improvements
Link to section below: 3. Changes & resolved errors
Features, models and materials with the asterisk (*) character are only available in Lumion 11.0 Pro.
Refer also to the Compare versions table - Comparison tab:
1. New feature highlights
1.1: Orthographic View Effect:
(Photo Mode, Movie Mode: Camera Category)
Plan views. Section views. From elevations to isometric.
At each stage of the design process, 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.
1.2: Animated Phasing Effect *
(Movie Mode: Animation Category)
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 designs' 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.
Model provided by Centric Bamboo and Gorilla Design.
1.3: Rain streaks *
(Photo Mode, Movie Mode, Panorama Mode: Precipitation Effect - Weather Category)
Capture the mood of a rainy day 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.
1.4: Volumetric fire
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 Volumetric 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.
Volumetric Fire supports custom shapes and colors by importing a custom texture. Size, turbulence and intensity can be adjusted in the object properties window.
.5: Micro shadows for Spotlights
When you turn on the Fine-Detail shadows in Lumion 11 via the Shadow Effect, the new micro shadows for Spotlights will be active and infuse a soft gradient of shadow into all of the tiniest details wherever you shine a Spotlight.
1.6: Improved grass lighting
(Build Mode: Landscape tab, Materials Editor: 3D Grass Material)
In Lumion 11, the new improved grass lighting technology helps connect your building design to the earth where it stands, turning the visual experience of your renderings into a sensory one.
1.7: Metallic car shader
Without any effort required from you, all the grass materials, including the customizable 3D Grass Material and the Landscape Grass, look as if they’re softer and more representative of real-life landscapes.
1.8: New objects in the Object Library: 401 in total *
Fine-detail Nature models: 61, consisting of plants (27) and trees (34).
Nature: 65, including grasses and weeds.Special effects objects: 8 for the new Volumetric Fire object.
All of the new objects are HD quality, and the new additions bring the total number of items in the Lumion 11 Pro content library to 6,224 *.
Lumion has approximately 33% of the models from the full Lumion Pro Model Library.
1.9: New materials *
Lumion 11 comes with 63 new, beautifully realistic materials covering a range of interior and exterior materials. Now, you have more options when showing exterior views of your design surrounded by captivating, beautiful environments. All of the new materials include Displacement Mapping.
1.10: Satellite maps in OpenStreetMap *
Render an entire real-life city. The elevations of its terrain. And all the minor details that make up the landscape around it.
The OpenStreetMap feature takes another leap forward in Lumion 11 Pro, to include beautifully detailed satellite maps. With these, you get real-world terrain, rivers, farmland, and more are all available, from all over the world, in just a click as you download the OpenStreetMap for your building location.
In Lumion 11 we also now have filtered heightmaps from a new source (ESRI). This helps prevent or reduce the change in height because some buildings would contribute to the heightmap.
1.11: Custom IES Spotlights
In Lumion 11, you can now import your own custom IES spotlight files to connect your Spotlight objects with the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) lighting profiles.