Lumion

Lumion resources: presets, interior lighting courses, isometric technique ebooks and introductory material for architects new to real-time rendering.

Lumion's argument is speed. Changes appear immediately rather than after a render queue, which makes it useful during design rather than only at the end — you can test a material or a time of day while the decision is still open.

The trade is control. Real-time engines make good defaults easy and fine tuning harder, so images from them tend to look alike unless you push against the presets: choose a light direction the building deserves, cut the effects back, and treat the output as a base for post-production rather than a finished picture.

See Lumion for architecture students, Lumion against V-Ray and Twinmotion and Twinmotion in 2026.