New tools include Paint Placement, for placing trees and other natural objects in scenes using a brush-like workflow and Landscape Cutter, for carving underground areas into terrain. Updated 18 March 2020: Lumion 10.3 adds the option to import displacement maps. Lumion also now supports render-time displacement effects, adding materials “with displacement maps baked in” – some new, some reworkings of existing library materials.Īs the comments to the YouTube demo video note, the software actually seems to be using parallax occlusion mapping: it doesn’t seem to be possible to add your own displacement maps to materials. Clicking in the viewport causes the render view to refine progressively, showing materials and shadows more accurately. Users of the core edition get a new high-quality preview option. Users of the Pro edition also get a new photo matching system and support for heightmaps when importing OpenStreetMap data, plus new high-detail vegetation models and night sky backgrounds.Ĭore software: higher quality render previews and materials with baked displacement There is also an experimental new Artist Styles feature, which uses AI techniques to stylise renders to look like the work of famous painters. Scroll down for news of the 10.3 update.Īct-3D has released Lumion 10.0, the latest version of its real-time architectural visualisation software, adding a higher-quality render preview and new materials with baked displacement maps.

Lumion 10.1