We are Lumion users in our office and are looking to move to D5 this year. I am interested to know what Pro’s and Con’s similar users have had when moving across.
We use Revit so will be syncing models to D5 directly.
Any tips, suggestions, things to look out for are appreciated!
I also moved away from Lumion. I had been using Lumion since version 3.
(worked with it till version 12)
In the end, it was a choice between Twinmotion or D5 Render.
Although Twinmotion is stronger in some areas and has more financial backing, I chose D5 at the time because it offered more frequent updates and better AI integration (which wasn’t really there yet when I made the switch).
One of the big advantages of D5 is the wide range of tools. Vegetation and asset placement work much better compared to Lumion — more natural random placement and much faster.
Another key benefit is render time. With Lumion, my last project took about 48 hours to render a 2–3 minute video. Using D5 on the same computer, the render time dropped to around 3–6 hours. Much faster. The nice thing is that in D5 you almost instantly see something very close to your final product. Yes, the path tracing could still be improved, but overall, it works great.
A couple of things to be aware of when switching:
Other than that, everything works perfectly. The Pro library is of very high quality with no “bad” assets — unlike Lumion, which still carries some low-quality items dating all the way back to Lumion 1.
This is great thank you so much.
Lots of positives by the looks of it.