April 29, 2025

Lumion View 25.1.2: Release Notes

Changes

1. License and Account Management

1.1. Lumion View is no longer in Early Access and is now commercially available. It can be purchased as a separate Subscription or as a bundle with Lumion Studio:

• Lumion Website: Buy Lumion

1.2. A Lumion View 2-week free Trial is now available:

• Lumion Website: Lumion View Trial

1.3. Lumion View is also offered to students (included with the Student License) and for Faculty Licenses.

2. Interface

2.1. Added a 'days left' counter for Trial users.

2.2. Added a 'Buy' button in the title bar for Trial users.

2.3. Beta/Early access notice has been removed.

3. General

3.1. PBR Material settings and Lumion View Lights placed in SketchUp 2025 models are translated to Lumion Pro 2025 when the .SKP model file is imported. See this article for more information:

• Knowledge Base: From Lumion View to Lumion Pro

April 22, 2025

Lumion View 25.1.1: Release Notes

1. New Features

1.1. Environment

1.1.1. Time of day Synchronization

Lumion View now has different options to sync the Shadows settings from SketchUp:

• Use SketchUp settings:

Keeping the 'Sun Study' toggle off will automatically sync the time of day and month from SketchUp:

• Overwrite settings:

Enabling the 'Sun Study' toggle will allow you to overwrite the settings and use a custom Sun position independently from SketchUp, using a similar interface. 

1.1.2. Clouds System

A slider that controls the amount of Clouds in the Sky has been added:

Note that the amount of Cloudiness will have an impact on lighting. Having more Clouds results in brighter, softer shadows. 

2. Improvements

2.1. User Interface

2.1.1. Lights

Clicking on the Lights button will now always open the 'Create Lumion Light' window, even if a Light is currently selected:

Existing Lights can be edited by double-clicking them in the SketchUp model space.

2.1.2. Projection Notification

Lumion View now displays a notification when 2-point perspective is turned on in SketchUp.

2.2. Visual Styles and Customization

2.2.1. Styles

The Wood and Styrofoam Styles have been improved with better tiling and higher quality textures:

2.3. Performance

2.3.1. Resource Management

The system resources used by Lumion View when running in the background have been optimized. When the window is not visible on screen, the frame rate is capped to reduce load. Additionally, the maximum frame rate when active is now limited to 60 FPS for improved performance and stability

3. Fixes

3.1. Rendering and features

• The output resolution now updates correctly when selecting Current Resolution for rendering after the Lumion View window has been resized.
• Copy Image to Clipboard no longer triggers an error.
  
  

3.2. Materials

• Removing a normal texture map from SketchUp will now update the aspect of the Material in Lumion View.
• Increasing the Emissive slider will no longer make the normal map invisible.
• Cancelling changes while editing a Material will now restore the previous settings.
• Material assignment no longer changes when copying and pasting geometry in SketchUp.

3.3. General

• The login window should no longer occasionally flicker.
• Users with upgraded Perpetual License Keys now have early access to Lumion View.
• The loading animation will no longer be displayed during login.
• Trial users can now see the number of days left for evaluation.
• It is now possible to disable User Analytics via the User tab.

3.4. Miscellaneous

• Various UI changes.
• Versioning has been adjusted.
• EULA screen improvements.

3.5. License and Account Management:

• Early Access: Now also available for Lumion Pro Perpetual License Key holders.

March 25, 2025

Lumion View is now available in Early Access (now closed as form 29 April 2025). Learn more in this article:

• Knowledge Base: Lumion View 2025.0 Release Notes