Motion Media

New in LumenRT 2

• Standard quality mode generates a fast lighting approximation with global illumination!
• Accelerated processing of scenes with improved visual feedback!
• Export SketchUp time lapse animations!
• LumenRT material editor lets you adjust materials directly inside SketchUp!
• State-of-the-art DirectX 9 or 10 and OpenGL real-time engine offers super-fast GPU performance!
• Dynamically adjustable time of day with realistic lighting.
• Physically accurate rendering of reflections!
• Sunlight casts soft shadows for superb lighting effects.
• Shadow softness realistically depends on distance to the shadow casting object.
• Lighting context affects shadow softness (e.g. shadows are smoother when weather is bad or sun is setting).
• Highly realistic underwater shaders with water turbidity!
• Reflective material surfaces (mirrors, etc)!
• Create animations of unlimited length.
• High quality anti-aliasing avoids any unwanted jaggies in your pictures!
• Professionnal motion blurring for ultra-smooth animations!
• Low quality real-time rendering mode for slower boards!

Beyond Static Renders: High Fidelity Immersive Visualization

Thanks to LumenRT, architects no longer have to choose between high-quality images and real-time visualization: They can walk or fly through their designs and experience the true quality of light in fully interactive 3D!

Designed to provide high fidelity visualization with accurately simulated lighting including Global Illumination, shadows and reflections, LumenRT is the ideal solution for:

• Creating exciting virtual interactive showrooms
• Demonstrating and sharing design concepts with associates and customers
• Creating attention-grabbing client presentations
• Exposing projects in fully real-time photo-realistic 3D

Revolutionary Capabilities

LumenRT provides a number of revolutionary capabilities to breathe life into 3D designs including:

• A More Engaging User Experience which allows clients and co-workers to interact with designs in a much more immersive and exciting manner.
• No Need for Specialized Viewing Software since LumenRT LiveCubes™ are shared as self running files that play on PC and Mac platforms. Just click and run — it's as simple as that.
• Seamless Background Processing allows models to be transformed into LumenRT LiveCubes with a single mouse click, rendering in the background while you continue to work.

Technological Revolution

Accurate lighting, shadows and reflections are an essential component of most architectural projects. LumenRT captures all the subtleties of natural illumination by performing a physically accurate simulation of the light in the scene which produces vivid, life-like results.

LumenRT's incredible ease-of-use, immersive navigation, and high-fidelity imagery is the result of many years of intensive research at e-on software. E-on holds a number of patents on the key underlying technologies which serve as the framework for LumenRT.

LumenRT 2 Review for SketchUp is available for free for all current LumenRT registered users. Ordering and download instructions were emailed by e-on software; contact them if you did not receive your free upgrade.

Minimum System Requirements

LumenRT is a 32 & 64 bits application, designed for the Windows® 32/64 bits XP, Vista and 7 as well as Intel Mac OS X platforms. A 64 bit system is highly recommended for authoring LiveCubes (32 bit systems are fine for playback). LumenRT is either CPU or GPU intensive depending on the task being performed. The pre-processing phase is CPU intensive while the navigation/viewing process is GPU intensive.

Performance of the software is directly related to the power of the system running it. LumenRT is optimized to make the best of all the processors/cores on your system. The power of your video board directly impacts the frame-rate during real-time 3D play-back. Pre-processing times are directly related to the power of your system and the complexity of the scenes being processed. Because illumination is computed with the same quality whatever the size of the scene, the total surface area of your scene directly impacts pre-processing times (as well as the total number of polygons). You will experience slow performance if your scenes are over 4,000 m² (approximately 40,000 sqft) or 500K polygons.

LumenRT Review for SketchUp requires SketchUp 7 or 8 (free or Pro version).

Pre-processing machine

This is the machine on which you will export your scene from SketchUp. So basically it should be able to run SketchUp, but you'll need a lot of power to bake the scene in order that it doesn't take ages to compute.

• Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7 32/64 or Mac OS X v10.6+ 32/64 (64 bit recommended)
• nVidia GeForce 8800 or newer or ATI Radeon 4000+ or newer video board, with at least 512MB VRAM
• 2GHz processor or faster (multi-core CPU recommended)
• 2GB of free RAM (4GB recommended)
• 4GB of free Hard Disk space.

Navigation/Viewing machine

This is the machine on which you or your client will navigate and explore the model. The more complex your model is, the more graphic power it will require.

• Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7 32/64 or Mac OS X v10.6+ 32/64
• nVidia GeForce 8800 or newer or ATI Radeon 4000+ or newer video board, with at least 512MB VRAM
• 2GHz processor or faster
• 1GB of free RAM (4GB recommended)
• 200MB of free Hard Disk space.