How to get the most out of nature in Lumion 2024
The latest innovations designed to elevate your landscapes
The magic of nature
Nothing makes a landscape render come alive quite like nature. With vibrant colors, natural textures, and lifelike details, incorporating high-quality trees and plants into your scenes adds instant vitality and draws viewers in at first glance.
Whether you're designing a landscape, situating a building in its natural surroundings, or populating an interior space, embracing nature can help make your visualizations go from aesthetically pleasing to immersive and captivating.
With improved landscape tiling, new fine-detail nature items, and ray tracing-compatible nature models, Lumion 2024 makes crafting convincing natural environments easier than ever. Ready to learn more?
Sculpt smoother terrain
Got a large area you need to cover in gravel, grass, or soil? In Lumion 2024, you can now apply your choice of landscape textures using an improved tiling type.
The new hexagonal mapping automatically creates smooth, seamless surfaces, eliminating visible tile outlines and enhancing realism. Turn it on with the landscape tiling toggle in the material editor to see it take effect.
Zoom in on the details
Bask in the natural beauty of trees, shrubs, and vines. With 100 new fine-detail nature items available in the Lumion Library, you can provide the highest quality geographical context for any design.
The vast array of impeccably detailed nature models come from all around the world and are available in different growth stages, so you can clearly and effortlessly convey climate, geographical location, and time of year.
Make any scene feel natural and immersive by placing fine-detail nature in the foreground. By selecting the most intricately detailed plants and trees, you can easily create a sense of depth, draw the viewer’s eye, and mimic real-life natural environments. Browse 430 fine-detail nature items in the internal Lumion Library to find the exact vegetation your scene needs.
Looking for something more resource-light for the background? Build up forests, gardens, or any landscape you can think of by choosing from the 1,847 regular nature assets available in the library.
Search with ease
Finding the exact asset you have in mind is easy in the Lumion Library. Simply type “L24” in the search bar to see the full range of Lumion 2024 nature.
You’ll find nature items logically grouped by plant type, species, Latin and common names, fine-detail, or stylized.
You can also narrow or broaden your search using adding or removing the relevant tags. Find out more information about quickly navigating the library in this article.
Paint with nature
In Lumion 2024, there’s no need to waste time placing fine-detail nature items one by one. You can now build scenes swiftly and smoothly, by situating hundreds of fine-detail trees and plants at once using the paint placement, line placement, and cluster placement tools.
With the cluster placement feature, you can save even more time and effort by selecting different fine-detail species and placing them wherever you please with one quick sweep of the mouse.
Illuminate nature’s intricacies
Ray tracing adds a little bit of magic to your natural environments with a single effect. It accurately depicts how light interacts with vegetation in real life, from sunlight filtering through leaves to trees vividly reflected in windows.
With 2,200+ nature models now fully ray traced in the Lumion Library, the natural context in your scenes stands out like never before. Every shadow, reflection, and refraction works together to reveal the true beauty of natural elements, making your visual narratives as convincing as they are captivating.
To switch it on, simply head to photo or movie mode, then find Ray tracing in Effects. Thanks to the new real-time ray-traced previews, you’ll see exactly how your final images or animations will appear when rendered – down to the last detail.
For a more in-depth look at how ray tracing works, check out this guide. And to ensure your graphics card is ray tracing-compatible, read about the relevant requirements here.
Create your own natural wonders
Ready to explore all the creative possibilities that Lumion 2024 has to offer?
If you’re new to Lumion, you can dive straight into the latest version – free of charge – with a 14-day Lumion Pro trial.
We love seeing your creations, so make sure to share them either on the Lumion Community or catch our attention on social media by using the hashtag #MadewithLumion.
