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Lumion 2024: Update to 24.2 - Release Notes

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August 6, 2024

Lumion 2024.2 is a content update that brings new animated people to the Lumion Library and some additional features.

Important: To install the changes, Lumion 2024 needs to be updated. Please follow the instructions in the Lumion pop-up window and see the article below for additional information: 

For background information, also consult:

 

Lumion 2024.2: Minor updates

Lumion 2024.2.1 - Release Notes

Resolved issues in Lumion 2024.2.1

August 12, 2024

Effects and Styles:

  • Reflection Effect: Planar Reflections no longer cause white artifacts on surfaces.

Miscellaneous:

  • User interface: The text for the EULA is not rendered as expected.

 

1. New Content in the Library:

Lumion 2024.2 is the largest update yet containing Animated People Objects. A total of 103 Library Objects have been added in this version.

Filter: New content can be filtered by using L24.2 in the Search bar.

 

1.1: New Objects*

 

People and Animals:  103

*35 Objects are made available in Lumion Standard.

A detailed breakdown of the Objects is published in the articles below:

 

and on the Lumion Website:

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2. Improvements:

2.1: Sun disk size for Ray Tracing:

With Lumion 2024.2, the Sun Disk Size Slider value, while Ray Tracing is enabled, will influence the softness of Shadows.

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2.2: Large Material Library thumbnail preview:

Hovering over a Library Material will now display a larger Preview to aid with the selection of assets during Project building.

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2.4: Multiple Importance Sampling (MIS) for rough surfaces:

MIS now also applies to rougher surfaces, producing a less noisy output. 

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2.5: Smooth Depth of Field bokeh effect:

A new Bokeh Preset has been added for softer blur results:

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3. Resolved issues and other improvements:

Build Mode:

  • Layers: Loading an .LS11 and older file will no longer cause Layers 1 to 20 to share the same name.
  • Layers: Layer 1 will no longer unhide itself when changing the Material of an Object placed on a different Layer.
  • Paint Placement: will no longer cause jittery mouse movement.
  • Object Library → Cars: the Metallic Paint no longer occasionally appears matte.
  • Object Library → Nature: Leaf surfaces are now displayed again as billboards that follow the camera direction when using the Rasterization pipeline.
  • Object Library → Nature: A new Tag ('billboard') for Objects containing billboarded leaves has been added.
  • Object Library → Nature: Tags containing the Latin names of Nature Objects have been restored.
  • Object Library → Fine-detail Nature: Objects with flowers are now displayed as expected.
  • Object Library → Groups: placement time in Build Mode has been significantly improved.
  • Object Library → Effects: Parallax Rooms no longer display a red tint when viewed or rendered from certain angles.
  • Object Library → Thumbnails: various small fixes and improvements.
  • Object Library → Utilities: Clipping Planes will no longer cut through Objects that have been assigned the Landscape Material.
  • Material Library → Thumbnails: that contained semi-transparent surfaces have been improved and are no longer displayed as opaque. 
  • Material Library → Thumbnails: for preset Glass Materials have been improved. . 
  • Material Library → Glass: Values have been tweaked for the Deco Glass Presets to better reflect the contents of the Thumbnail.

Photo and Movie Mode:

  • Movie Mode: is now limited to the intended 10 Clip Sets.

Effects & Styles:

  • Color Correction Effect: will now display the correct translations for the LUTs.
  • Ray Tracing Effect: no longer displays a dark outline around Objects directly in front of the Sky.
  • Ray Tracing Effect: Materials with a high Roughness value now give better results when rendered.
  • Ray Tracing Effect: the Photo Denoiser has been updated to a newer version.
  • Ray Tracing Effect + Sky Effect: no longer displays white rectangles in the sky when switching between Photos that have a high difference in Sky Brightness.
  • Move and Advanced Move Effects: all Object types can now be animated.
  • Animated Phasing Effect: Animations that are assigned 'No Effect' will no longer disappear from the timeline.
  • Reflection Effect → Planar Reflections: added to multiple Photos will no longer occasionally cause a crash on AMD graphics cards while rendering.
  • Styles: The Day and Day RT styles have been improved for better visual fidelity to real life.
  • Thumbnails: various small updates and improvements.

Save, load, and recovery:

  • Example Projects: can now be opened in the Student Edition.
  • Merging Projects: will no longer cause unexpected behaviour with Groups.

Importing and exporting:

  • DWG format: is now faster to import
  • SKP format: importing an .SKP file will no longer cause the Color Maps to be converted into Opacity Maps.
  • SKP format on AMD GPUs: importing and .SKP file on a system that uses an AMD graphics card should no longer cause an unexpected crash before the completion of the import.
  • Animations: the import time for complex Object Animations has been slightly improved.

Rendering:

  • Additional Output: the video memory usage for the Material ID at Print resolution has been significantly reduced when rendered while Ray Tracing is used.
  • Additional Output: the Sky Mask output will now be rendered as expected when rendered alongside the Specular or Lighting Masks while Ray Tracing is used.

 

4. General:

  • User interface: Various UI improvements.

 

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