

“LumenRT is our communication tool of choice. It lets us easily produce professional videos and interactive experiences that empower the audience and provide in-depth understanding of our projects.”
Technical Capabilities
Incorporate Digital Nature
- Populate models with animated trees and shrubs that are responsive to wind and seasons
- Apply water materials with realistic caustics, including lakes, ponds, and pools
- Sculpt beautiful terrain formations with rich materials and animated grass ground covers
- Create your own custom plants and import them from Plant Factory
- Generate high resolution 3D skies with a variety of realistic atmospheric effects such as fog and haze
- Add an infinite ocean and seaplane to the scene with adjustable agitation and speed properties
- Easily switch from night to day with a single click. Enjoy moonlit skies with twinkling stars
Animate Models
- Populate scenes from extensive libraries of animated people and animals
- Choose from libraries of indoor and outdoor objects like light fixtures, furniture, fences, and background buildings
- Animate moving vehicles including articulated trains and trucks
- Easily create animated multi-lane traffic
- Paint collections of any object type such as trees, vehicle, and characters
- Define custom animation paths
- Automatically reposition objects to match terrain
Render Cinematic Quality in Real Time
- Accurately render interaction between natural day and night light with rich atmospheric volume
- Apply IES point and spotlights
- Use point and spotlights that are fully adjustable with IES lighting profiles
- Efficiently render both extremely bright and dark areas without loss of detail
- Easily select and adjust luminosity, brightness and contrast of all materials
- Create custom materials and save them in your own material library
- Create natural ambient shadows for all objects in your scene
- Organize your lights into groups for easy on/off and automatic toggle settings
- Use high-performance anti-aliasing and motion blur for exceptional clarity and realism
- Set advanced material rendering options such as bump maps, specular highlights, reflections, and transparency control
- Perform light and shadow studies with LumenRT’s adjustable sun, accurately set using NREL’s solar positioning algorithms
- Apply anamorphic streaks and lens flares that are fully adjustable for sunlight and artificial lights
- Set camera focal distance to create eye-pleasing depth of field effects
Integrate with BIM, CAD, and Geospatial Workflows
- Enjoy API integration with MicroStation, Autodesk Revit, Esri CityEngine, Graphisoft ArchiCAD, and Trimble SketchUp
- Ensure source CAD/geospatial model changes are intelligently merged into the LiveCube while preserving existing scene geometry and edits
- Add section planes to dynamically create cross-sections views of the entire scene
- Import objects using industry standard 3D formats (OBJ, DAE, FBX)
- Export geometries, materials, LumenRT proxies, lights, cameras, layers, and BIM information
- • Create vast scenes in high definition without losing quality or increasing rendering time
- Switch layers on or off to expose various parts of the scene
- Use low-definition plants, vehicles, and characters, which can be placed in the source CAD/GIS system file and converted automatically to high-definition objects in LumenRT
- Import MicroStation traffic and VISSIM simulations
- View and navigate BIM attributes and leverage for labeling and annotation


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