LumenRT 2 Review for SketchUp

Revolutionary Capabilities
LumenRT 2 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.


Whats 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!