Make every detail count
With Lumion, you can easily add eye-catching details and breathtaking atmosphere to your renders, which would otherwise take hours to create.
Now, Lumion 12.3 takes this idea one step further. Because it’s the details that make a design feel alive. It’s the details that immerse your clients and colleagues into an experience they can feel and remember. Discover how you can surprise and delight with an awe-inspiring level of detail in your visualizations.
Lumion makes it easy to convey how your projects will translate into real-life experiences with intuitive tools, features, and a large content library.
Enjoy a faster, more intuitive and more enjoyable rendering experience with Lumion 12.3, available now!
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Lumion 12.3 makes it even easier and faster to go from imagination to final render. Take advantage of all the latest and greatest features by upgrading your license to the most recent version.
Explore the new features in Lumion 12
Architectural visualization goes beyond showing form and function. It’s about conveying emotion. Igniting a feeling. Showing how spaces affect people on a deeper level. Lumion 12 empowers you to tell a story about your design that will move and inspire.
With Lumion 12 Pro, it’s easier than ever to illuminate the atmosphere in your designs and show their most remarkable elements in their best light.
There are countless situations where volumetric lighting comes in handy. Mood, atmosphere, ambiance — the new volumetric omni lights effect gives depth to spaces while adding a gorgeous glow.
This point-and-click effect is perfect when used in a subtle manner. Render foggy evenings. Show dust, mist or steam for interior shots. The effect is instant, and the results are incredible.
The new volumetric spotlight effect lets you cast a visible beam of light throughout your scene, adding atmosphere and dimension for a beautiful, cinematic ambiance.
With a wide range of applications, you can use the volumetric spotlights effect to illuminate interiors, exteriors and even pools, giving spaces more depth and realism.
The volumetric spotlights effect is the latest addition to the wide variety of lighting options available in Lumion 12, from omni lights to area and line lights, all of which you can customize based on color, brightness, shadows and much more.
Combined with Real Skies, the fog effect and atmospheric rain and snow, the new volumetric spotlights effect helps you showcase your design in an immersive context.
Set the mood with a new ambient light color tool. Using the Kelvin scale, which measures colors from warm (3000K) to cold (7000K), you’ll illuminate interiors with a cozy and inviting mood and create exterior lighting with a crisp and invigorating feeling.
In Lumion 12, the smallest details matter. With new surface decals, license plates and a diverse content library of materials, objects, characters and nature items, you can bring your design to life with surprising detail.
Give your visualizations a touch of character, style and personality with 142 new surface decals. In just a click, you’ll transform surfaces with imperfections, wall art, exposed brick, moss, chalk drawings, paint, road markings and much more.
Combined with other features such as weathering, displacement maps and edges, you have a wide range of tools to show surface imperfections and highlight textures like never before.
With Lumion 12.3, you can now import your own custom decals to give surfaces a unique look and feel, opening up more possibilities for creative expression.
Custom decals are easy to place and modify so that you can blend them into your project, giving them all the texture and intricate detail of the underlying material.
From Japan to Germany. China to the United States. The new license plates in Lumion 12 help you anchor your design to a specific place with a small yet highly immersive detail. In Lumion 12, you can find a variety of license plate styles from 10 different countries as well as all 50 U.S. states.
In Lumion 12.3, you can add an extra touch of personalization with custom license plates. Upload one or multiple images and create your own license plate. With just one click, you can make all the vehicles reflect your project’s location.
Lumion 12.3 also comes with newly animated plants. These previously static items move with life, creating the context for more energetic, lively animations.
With 41 new fine-detail nature items, including a range of new palms at various stages of growth, exquisitely detailed flowers, stems of grass, weeds, cattails and other small plants, you can capture the vitality of real-life landscapes.
Reveal the real-life experiences that people will have when interacting with your design. Show how a room’s furniture imparts a certain mood, how trees and nature can make your design more vibrant. With Lumion’s vast content library, you can make any space feel unique, full of personality and colorfully intimate. New additions include:
All of the new objects are HD quality, specifically developed and fully optimized for Lumion. The new additions bring the total number of library assets in the Lumion 12 Pro content library to 6,903*.
Materials can make buildings feel alive, opening up your senses and giving character and personality to spaces. In Lumion 12, you can find 65 new materials with a wide range of choices:
| • Acoustic foam | • Corrugated steel sheets |
| • Cardboard | • Tile patterns |
| • Solar panels | • Sandstone blocks |
| • Tactile paving | • Reed roofing |
| • Cork | • Other roofing and shingles |
| • Bricks | • Stone and wood |
| • Concrete | • And many more |
Many of the materials in Lumion are of the highest quality, and they can be altered via surface decals, weathering, soft edges (Pro only) and more. With the new additions, the total number of materials in Lumion 12 Pro is 1,357*.
Enjoy a simpler, more intuitive workflow
Over the years, Lumion has become widely known for its ease of use, allowing rendering to become as seamless and intuitive as possible for architects. Lumion 12 builds on this guiding principle and puts even more focus on the user experience with a simplified, fluid workflow. The entire program is faster and smoother, allowing for inspiration to drive the creative process.
Lumion LiveSync creates a real-time connection between Lumion’s detail-rich, lifelike environments and the most popular 3D modeling and CAD programs. Now, in Lumion 12, the range of LiveSync plug-ins has been extended to include Autodesk FormIt Pro, a fluid 3D sketching environment that provides a seamless connection from concept design to BIM for less rework.
Show your design in its real-life context. Render an entire cityscape. The elevations of its terrain. And all the minor details that make up the landscape around it. The OpenStreetMaps feature takes another leap forward in Lumion 12, allowing you to better control, rotate and import the surrounding topography for your project.
With Lumion 12, rendering is cleaner, smoother and more efficient. It’s now easier to drag and drop your 3D models, navigate the vast content library, create object collections and organize your imported models and groups of your favourite items. See more usability improvements.
With a Lumion license, you can turn any CAD design into a beautiful render at any phase of the design process. Standard and Professional editions are available.
Discover more features
Lumion 12 builds on more than a decade of development designed to empower architects to visualize designs with clarity and emotion. See what’s inside Lumion or explore the latest release notes below.
* Model designs on this page and the showcase gallery by Angular Lab, Obra Visual, Centric Bamboo and Gorilla Design, TEN OVER STUDIO and Angello Marques Arquitetura e Design.
