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AI tools for architectural visualization
Lumion uses AI to shorten specific production steps around visualization. Create PBR materials from reference images, refine an existing render, explore new ways to present it, or increase its resolution without starting over. You set the direction and decide which results move forward.
Where AI fits into the workflow
Five ways AI can shorten everyday visualization work.
#1
You need a material that isn't in any library
The material you want is usually on site rather than in an asset library. A local brick, a client's reference photo, the concrete finish on the building next door.
Building a complete PBR material from scratch takes time. With the AI Material Generator, you can start with a single reference image and generate the maps you need for Lumion Pro.
Upload a clean image of the surface and crop to the area you want to use, and choose a material type such as bricks, concrete, fabric, wood, or stone.
Create Normal, Height, Roughness, and Metalness maps alongside the initial Albedo result. Compare, fine-tune, and preview the material under different lighting.
Save to your material collection or download the full set of maps to bring them into Lumion Pro.
#2
You need a polished visual quickly
Sometimes the design is finished but the image needs another pass. More material detail, stronger atmosphere, richer planting, or a different time of day.
The AI Enhancer works from an existing image in Lumion Cloud, so you can explore those changes without returning to the scene for every alternative.
Explore different lighting and atmosphere, from morning to night, while keeping your design intact.
Refine people and their visual detail while preserving their place in the scene.
Give trees, planting, and landscaping greater definition or a different character.
Refine objects, surfaces, and materials with more texture, definition, and realism.
#3
You need control over what AI changes
An enhancement stops being useful if an important architectural detail changes with it. A shifted roofline, altered opening, or different piece of furniture can change what the image is communicating.
In AI Enhancer's Guided Mode, Element Preservation lets you indicate the parts of the image the model should retain, including buildings, people, vegetation, water, cars, and furniture. The enhancement is then guided around those selections.
Preservation gives the AI clearer boundaries, but generative results can still vary. Compare the enhanced image with the original before choosing what to use.
#4
You need room to explore
Different moments in a project can call for different ways of communicating the same design. With AI Enhancer's Expert Mode, you can use custom prompts to explore materials, lighting, atmosphere, landscaping, color, and overall visual style. You can also describe the parts of the image that should remain unchanged. Prompts can be up to 6,000 characters, giving you room to be precise when the direction calls for it.
Refine lighting, materials, planting, and scene detail for a more photographic finish while keeping the original architecture as the reference.
Shift color, texture, and atmosphere toward a more illustrative or editorial treatment for concept presentations or competition boards.
Try a maquette-style interpretation that brings massing and spatial relationships forward, or explore other model-like visual languages when the idea matters more than photorealism.
#5
You need a bigger image fast
The image that works for review isn't always large enough for a presentation board, print, or large display.
The AI Upscaler increases the resolution of an image you already have, giving you a larger output without another high-resolution render.
Use it when a selected image needs to go further, or when an older render was never created at the size you now need.
Where AI earns its place
AI on the production work. Architects on the design work.
Good visualization depends on judgment: what to show, what to emphasize, and what needs to stay true to the design. Those decisions remain yours.
AI is useful where the work is more repetitive. Turning a reference into a usable material. Trying another time of day. Refining image detail. Exploring a different visual treatment. Preparing a larger image for presentation.
Lumion focuses AI on shortening those production steps, working from the materials and visuals you've already created.
Spend less time producing. Keep your time for designing and communicating.
Try the new AI Enhancer today
Included free with all Lumion plans.
Common questions
Lumion uses AI to help with specific parts of the architectural visualization and production workflow. The AI Material Generator creates PBR material maps from a reference image, AI Enhancer refines and explores alternatives from an existing architectural visualization, and the AI Upscaler increases image resolution without requiring another render.
Element Preservation in AI Enhancer's Guided Mode helps you tell the model which parts of the image should remain unchanged. You can preserve elements such as buildings, people, vegetation, water, cars, and furniture.
Because generative AI can still change details unexpectedly, every result should be reviewed against the original before use.
The AI Material Generator creates complete PBR material maps from a reference image and that you can apply to projects in Lumion Pro.
The AI Enhancer refines existing architectural visualizations and lets you explore changes to lighting, materials, atmosphere, scene details, and visual style.
The AI Upscaler increases the resolution of an existing image by 2×, 4×, or 8× depending on its source size.
No. Guided controls cover the common cases with no prompt writing at all. Custom instructions are available when you want more specific direction.
No. You can use the Time of Day settings inside the AI Enhancer's Guided Mode to generate morning, noon, afternoon, dusk, and night versions from an image you already have.
You can save your AI-enhanced images as a version or a variation next to the original inside your Lumion Cloud workspace, or download them.
Any PBR materials you generate, you can save to Your Creations inside Lumion Cloud or download locally.
AI Enhancer is built specifically for architectural visualization and starts from an architectural image you've already created.
When you're working in Lumion Cloud, useful results can also stay connected to the broader project workflow, including versions, variations, comments, and approvals. With a separate general-purpose image tool, those steps typically need to be managed across different applications.
Projects and renders inside Lumion Cloud are private by default. Access is limited to the people you invite, until you choose to share more widely.
