



On another subject, since we have corresponded before on our similar iMac upgrade dilemmas, have you seen the new iMac offerings (today)? I realize I did ask for too big a bite! I appreciate your considerate response! Maybe reduce it to people’s top 3 and see what floats to the top. VRay is a bigger and more expensive beast but those who know how to use it can produce some awesome results. Podium looks to be neatly integrated with SU and is appears to have a relatively gentle learning curve. The two I have been looking at most recently are Podium and VRay. I am just about to replace my late 2012 iMac with something close to what you have so that I can sensibly consider using a render program. Before rendering happens on Enscape, we have the possibility to access multiple controls, default mode, white mode, polystyrol mode, and light mode.I am in a similar pre-purchase phase to you. When Enscape users set up all the different textures and add scene assets, the 3D render can take a few seconds to a minute to finish, and we can see the good result right after that. The plugins can be integrated with multiple 3D software, which helps designers and architects work easier. Panoramic pictures mode is also available in Lumion and it is used mostly in urban projects.Įnscape on the other hand provides nice and realistic rendered pictures in a matter of seconds. When it comes to rendering, the images can be rendered less than a minute, an animation can be rendered in a couple of hours and sometimes more depending on the configuration of the computer and the length of video. Throughout the versions that have been released over the years, the rendering in Lumion became so much better, especially for the interior render’s parts.Īdditionally, Lumion provides a series of customized picture resolution predefined by the software, it also provides a large range of effects like realistic images effect, more light effect, wind/ rain/ night effect in interior & exterior rendering.Īs a lumion user, you also can control the direction of the sun, the time in a day and season in the year before rendering while the quantity of clouds in the sky is manageable in the software.

Lumion is growing a lot better and making a noticeable progress in terms of the quality of renders.
