LumenRT (Realtime) Renderer for Sketchup

 LumenRT is the fantastic new realtime Sketchup renderer from E-On, industry leaders in CG environment generation and rendering.

The combination of LumenRT’s vivid output and rich navigation capabilities allow your clients and co-workers to experience and interact with designs in a much more immersive and exciting manner. LumenRT creates very high-fidelity output complete with accurately simulated lighting, shadows, and reflections.

This output can be navigated interactively in a self guided fashion using either the game-like, walk-though mode, or explored using a 3D style orbit mode similar to how programs like Sketchup operate. In addition, LumenRT LiveCubes can employ animation paths which allow you to direct and present the viewing experience in a predictable, predefined manner. The animation mode is also useful for self-running, kiosk style presentations.

No Need for Specialised Viewing Software

With LumenRT, no special viewing software is required. Instead, LumenRT LiveCubes are shared using a simple self-extracting zip file facility. The LiveCubes run automatically on any PC or Mac platform when executed. Just click and run – it’s a simple as that.  

Seamless Background Processing

The LumenRT rendering process is fully automated and requires no user intervention. Models are exported directly from inside Sketchup to the LumenRT application which runs as a background process. LumenRT uses the Sketchup geometries and materials along with the lighting, viewing and animation parameters directly from the model file.

High Quality Real-Time Visualisation

Designed to provide high fidelity visualization with accurate lighting, shadows and reflections, LumenRT is the ideal solution for:

• Creating a virtual interactive showroom
• Demonstrating and sharing design concepts
• Visualizing 3D models in client presentations
• Exposing your projects in fully real-time photo-realistic 3D.

Key Benefits

LumenRT’s output is fully interactive and will run on any computer without special viewing software making it easy to share designs and collaborate with anyone. Key benefits of LumenRT are:

• High fidelity, photo-realistic 3D Viewing
• Accurate lighting, shadows and reflections
• Fast immersive 3D viewing performance
• Runs on any machine – no special viewing software required
• Incredibly simple, push-button operation
• Automated rendering output from Sketchup/Sketchup Pro
• Save SketchUp camera animation as AVI or MP4V files.

LumenRT Review for SketchUp

LumenRT Review for SketchUp is the first release of LumenRT. It is designed to operate as a plug-in for SketchUp and SketchUp Pro.

umenRT is based on the many years of technological leadership of e-on software. It operates in two phases:

• A pre-processing phase where lighting of the scene is calculated
• A real-time rendering phase where the scene is displayed in fully immersive, real-time 3D with reflections, shadows and indirect ligthing.

Pre-Processing Phase

LumenRT's pre-processing engine, built on e-on patented technologies, is capable of rapidly computing global illumination on arbitrary mesh geometries. These technologies virtually eliminate the need to optimize geometry prior to rendering.

Real-Time Phase

LumenRT's real-time engine uses state-of-the-art techniques to render the scene in real-time with true reflections, shadows and global illumination. LumenRT’s output can be wrapped into stand-alone executables ('LiveCubes") that will run on any computer without special viewing software making it easy to share designs and collaborate with anyone.

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Pre-Processing

Navigation

Output