Marked as Planned !!!
What a good news 
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Hi Team - I think here is a opportunity for D5! What if D5 can be the top workflow software with the best feature to produce the most Accurate Architectural Photo montage using AI?
What if Ai can be used to aid the process by:
Annalise the environment. light conditions shadows and calibrating the camera to match the perspective of the existing photo.
Also ability to manually adjust small setting to adjust reference grids, focal length and to ensure the model scale match the scene to avoided discrepancies.
Perhaps also to add verified information to the tool so that the views can be verified for Planning Conditions.
Setting up a tool of this kind will help tremendously to aid in the design work stages when doing massing and detail façade design. Allot of the design decisions are driven by the existing context and influence the design in this way.
Don’t just copy Lumions photomatching tool or Sketchups but rather make it even better then Blender, 3ds Max!
What do you think D5 Team?
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Hi Team - please check out this tool for camera matching. This for interior. But maybe this will also help with street views and aerial views.
Also shown here from 2:22min onwards
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same how Lumion does it.
works okay-ish can be a pain in the ass sometimes.
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please Photomatch! There is too much guessing
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Hello,
While waiting for this photomatching tool, it seems to me that being able to import the scenes from the modeling program into D5 can replace this option. In SketchUp I can use the photomatching tool then synchronize the scene in D5, match the lights, export the rendering at the same image definition (resolution, size?) with the post-production layers. Then in the image editor paste my post-production rendering over the original photo. Tell me if I’m wrong. Thanks
The big thing is that I can’t get my head around is this. You have a drone shot, it’s taken at 35mm in the information panel you get from windows. You overlay an image on d5 using pure ref, also set up your camera at 35mm, but it never match, it’s more like 51mm for a 35mm photo. I’d like the d5 team to let you use the same camera focal length as your photo, so when you render and take it to photoshop, you don’t have to move your render around and sits perfectly as intended over the photo to cut out.
Regarding the post processing
Thansparency apla like glass need to be fixed, and not be completely removed by sky mask
No halo around background trees, clean cut outs
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Hi D5 team - surprise us with a fantastic out of the box photo matching tool… and sprinkle it with some AI enhance features too! High expectations running around. You can do it D5 Team.
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100% Agree
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Dear D5 Team! This would be one of the most important thing! Please add this photomatching feature ASAP!
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Hola equipo D5, esto es realmente la unica herramienta que me hace falta para migrar al 100% de lumion, ultimamente he necesitado mucho esta función, seria de mucho agradado poder tenerla.
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We need this! You can do it d5 team
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Hi D5 Team,
Working in the architecture and landscape architecture field doing renderings for proposed environments. We’re often working with drone images or photos and this feature would be indispensable! Could we expect this in updates soon? Thank you
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I just started using D5, (after using Vray for SketchUP for 16 years and Lumion for about 12 yrs)… I’m loving D5 so far, but not being able to line up a shot for compositing is a huge disappointment. Hoping this feature is added soon. Thanks to everyone for mentioning their workarounds. I have PureRef, so I’ll try the transparent overlay and see if that works. I render sites then composite them into actual aerial photos. My old workflow was to create a style in SketchUp that had the aerial photo as a transparent overlay. Hopefully D5 implements and even better way to achieve ‘photo matching’. cheers
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Any update on this?
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It’d be amazing if the sync camera views and sync rhino views to D5 actually synced the views correctly. Syncing camera views doesn’t contain correct lens length, rotation etc. And using sync rhino view also doesn’t contain all the correct camera info.
My camera and lens length in Rhino for a view is 22.556 mm. In D5 it doesn’t matches when I use sync rhino view. Changing vertical FoV to 22.556 doesn’t match the view. Using Pureref it seems I need to edit the FoV to 21.1. How come D5?
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I hope that when this feature is available, they won’t forget to add a shadow catcher and an invisible transparent material that receives shadows, like a V-Ray material wrapper. Twinmotion just released a photomatch in its 2026 beta version, which looks very good. But I won’t be going back to Twinmotion.
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I played with Twinmotion photomatch today and its pretty basic. Would be nice if D5 used AI to help solve the matching - at least a little bit. It should at least read the meta data from the back plate photo to lock in camera lens length etc. Also could read the back plate for environmental match etc.
Hi D5 team, any updates on this? Critical feature imv. TIA
Hello,
Almost a year ago, I mentioned earlier a solution involving synchronizing the SketchUp photo-matching scene.
"Hello,
While waiting for this photomatching tool, it seems to me that being able to import the scenes from the modeling program into D5 can replace this option. In SketchUp I can use the photomatching tool then synchronize the scene in D5, match the lights, export the rendering at the same image definition (resolution, size?) with the post-production layers. Then in the image editor paste my post-production rendering over the original photo. Tell me if I’m wrong. Thanks"
In truth, either I had never tested the solution I mentioned, or D5 Render has regressed.
Today, if you synchronize a SketchUp “photo-matching” scene after “projecting” the textures onto the geometry, D5 distorts everything—a disaster. Try it out.
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