Lumion 2024: beautiful ray-trace renders at speed

The perfect renderer for Archviz?

Lumion 2024 review; a scene from a modern home
(Image: © Lorenzo Dragotto)

Our Verdict

Lumion has a strong user base and a dedicated dev team. With a roadmap that includes animated characters being converted to the ray-tracing engine and importing of PBR material properties and maps, it’s set to get better still.

For

  • Great ray-tracing solution
  • Improved landscaping
  • Reduced unwanted noise

Against

  • Dedicated renderers are better
  • Lacks network rendering

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Lumion 2024 details

Price Standard $65 / £55 monthly, Pro $135 / £105 monthly
Company Lumion
New features Supports NRD (Nvidia real-time denoiser), Ray Traced Subsurface Scattering, real-time ray-traced previews, ray-traced glass, parallax interiors for added detail

A journey that began in 1998 with two keen computer programmers has resulted in the creation of a real-time visualisation application used by hundreds of thousands of users in over 180 countries, and across three-quarters of the top 100 architecture firms. That’s impressive by anyone’s standards. 

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The Verdict
8

out of 10

Lumion 2024: beautiful ray-trace renders at speed

Lumion has a strong user base and a dedicated dev team. With a roadmap that includes animated characters being converted to the ray-tracing engine and importing of PBR material properties and maps, it’s set to get better still.

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Paul Hatton
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Paul is a digital expert. In the 20 years since he graduated with a first-class honours degree in Computer Science, Paul has been actively involved in a variety of different tech and creative industries that make him the go-to guy for reviews, opinion pieces, and featured articles. With a particular love of all things visual, including photography, videography, and 3D visualisation Paul is never far from a camera or other piece of tech that gets his creative juices going. You'll also find his writing in other places, including Creative Bloq, Digital Camera World, and 3D World Magazine. 

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