Dear Lumion user,
Lumion Service Pack 2 Build 6 is now available for download in the Customer Area.
Download and unpack the .ZIP file in a temporary directory, and run the setup file.
You can keep older versions of Lumion installed without problems.
We recommend that you create a backup of your Library and Scene files before using the new build (they are located in the Documents/Lumion/Scenes & Library folders).
NOTEFor those of you who haven't installed Build 6 yet, this is just to let you know that there are two "showstopper" bugs (chrome cars and missing SpeedTree billboards) in this build. Both bugs have been fixed in the upcoming Build 7.About Service Pack 2 Build 6- Numerous bugs have been fixed, camera animations are now smoother than before, and as some of you saw in the forum, ambient occlusion shadows (SSAO) have been improved quite a lot.
- The "baking" process which optimises rendering performance for many identical objects is now a lot faster and uses far less memory.
- A new "Show Layer" effect with keyframes has been added, so that you can show the different stages of the construction of a building in a single clip.
- Edge smoothing in movies has been dramatically improved thanks to a new "Smooth edges" effect which will be replacing the old "MLAA" effect. This effect is ideal for rendering movies in 2-star mode if you haven't got time for the more costly x16 edge smoothing in 3-star mode.
- We have also added a bunch of lovely new palm trees, corals, water lilys and grass objects to the Tree Pack which should make your scenes look more realistic than ever.
Thanks to all of you for your continued support and encouragement - we hope to bring you even more exciting features and improvements in the future.
All the best,
The Lumion Team
Excerpt from ChangeList.txt:Service pack 2, Build 6:_____________________
Bug fixes:- The end of a camera animation is now smoother than before.
- Ambient occlusion shadows (SSAO) have been improved.
- The "baking" process which optimises rendering performance for many identical objects is now a lot faster and uses far less memory.
- Thumbnails of saved scenes are no longer squashed.
- The pitch value of materials is no longer set to 1 by default.
- The Depth Offset slider in the Color material no longer adjusts the Overbright slider at the same time
- The end position of an animated object can now be set again without changing the camera perspective.
- Models no longer disappear when resizing the Lumion window.
- A number of typos in the user interface were fixed.
- Edit Materials -> "Escape" no longer causes the materials of one object to be inherited by the next object that is edited.
- Shortcut key 3 no longer opens the Material Editor.
- The object selection of aligned models no longer gets stuck.
- The camera viewport no longer switches while typing in "0" in sliders.
- Color Effects -> Fade in/out is now 100% black.
- 2D silhouettes can now be scaled correctly.
- Escape (Adv. Move) -> Move + SHIFT now works as expected.
- Teleporting people/trees should no longer occur when using the "Animate objects" effect.
- The exposure no longer spikes every time Lumion window is resized during movie renderings.
Added or changed:- A new "Show Layer" effect with keyframes has been added, so that you can show the different stages of the construction of a building in a single clip.
- Edge smoothing in movies has been dramatically improved thanks to a new "Smooth edges" effect which will be replacing the old "MLAA" effect. This effect is ideal for rendering movies in 2-star mode if you haven't got time for the more costly x16 edge smoothing in 3-star mode.
- The Tree Pack has been updated with a bunch of lovely new palm trees, corals, water lilys and grass objects which should make your scenes look more realistic than ever.
- Imported objects in Documents/Lumion/Library can now be placed in manually created folders.
- Movie section - > Image clip: PNG/TGA/DDS files are now shown in the open file window.
- The sun and cubemap are now updated while adjusting the sliders in the "Cloud settings" effect.
- Fire particle effects are now brighter by default.
- "Focal length" is now included as a Movie effect that can be keyframed.
Service pack 2, Build 5:_____________________
Build 5 was only released as a "Lumion Free" version and is essentially the same as Build 4 but with certain restrictions.
