Lumion 2024 Best New Features

Lumion 2024 is here, bringing a host of new features designed to improve your rendering workflow and deliver more realistic results. In this post, we’ll explore the most significant updates and how you can use them to enhance your projects.

1. Improved Library with Enhanced Search Functionality

The Lumion library has received a significant update, including large thumbnail previews that allow you to see each object in high resolution before placing it in your scene. This makes it easier to choose the perfect assets for your project. The library search functionality has also been upgraded, giving you more control over tags. You can now add or exclude tags with simple clicks, making it easier to find exactly what you need.

2. Redesigned User Interface

Lumion 2024 introduces a redesigned user interface, moving the menu panel from the lower-right corner to a vertical sidebar on the left side of the screen. This change streamlines navigation between build, photo, movie, and panorama modes, making your workflow faster and more intuitive.

3. Landscape Tiling for Seamless Textures

The new landscape tiling feature in Lumion 2024 helps prevent repetitive patterns in texture tiling, ensuring your material surfaces appear seamless. This feature is easy to use—just enable landscape tiling under UV coordinates, and you’ll notice a significant improvement in the realism of your materials.

4. Ray Traced Trees for Enhanced Vegetation Rendering

Lumion 2024 brings ray tracing compatibility to thousands of nature models in the library. This update allows for more accurate portrayal of how vegetation interacts with light, resulting in higher-quality images with improved resolution and realism.

5. Real-Time Ray Tracing Previews

With the addition of a new denoiser, Lumion 2024 now allows you to preview ray-traced renders in real time. This means you can move the camera or adjust settings without having to reload the preview, significantly speeding up your workflow. Additionally, new ray tracing quality presets let you quickly select the best settings for your project.

6. Improved Ray Traced Glass Materials

Glass materials in Lumion 2024 benefit from the new ray tracing capabilities, providing more detailed and realistic results. The fully ray-traced glass setting enhances the appearance of glass objects, including color-cast shadows and more accurate light interactions. These improvements are especially noticeable in materials with translucent and subsurface scattering properties.

7. Parallax Interiors for Optimized Scenes

Parallax Interiors is a new feature in Lumion 2024 that allows you to display entire rooms using just a single polygon, optimizing scene performance. These interiors come in various sizes and can be easily placed, rotated, and resized. They are a great way to add depth and detail to your scenes without overwhelming your system.

Lumion 2024’s updates are designed to enhance both the visual quality of your renders and the efficiency of your workflow. Whether you're utilizing the improved library, experimenting with real-time ray tracing, or adding depth with Parallax Interiors, these features will help you take your projects to the next level.

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