Nicely done. Thank you for taking the time to make a fair and balance comparison of both programs. My last upgrade was Lumion 8.5. Now at 11, I have to pay close to $3,000 to renew. Too steep, considering I can relearn Enscape and pay less than $500 a year.
Lumion is definitely more powerful and more realistic, but Enscape is a fast tool for visualization and showing clients their spaces quickly. Both good tools.
@@nightprowler6336 Lumion is a beast and if you have any large size model, there really isn’t a Laptop out there that can handle it. Enscape is decent for quick renders, but it has very few controls on filtering output. Also, Enscape is wonky with material editing and has a very minimal asset library. I used it for work today snd could not find an aspen tree replacement. Lumion has a vast library. Enscape people look better than Lumion which still has dawn of the dead characters. Twinmotion is better in that regard. Twinmotion also has decals for parking spaces, Lumion does not. Enscape is basically a stripped-down rip- off version of V-ray. If you want Fast, lightweight and real? = D5 Render is your program.
@@JaySchram My laptop system: - 16 gb ram - amd ryzen 7 4800h - nvidia geforce gtx 1650 (4 gb) - 128 gb ssd and 1 tb hdd - windows 10 64 bit Which rendering software is best fit for sketchup - revit - autocad - photoshop alliance? I want it to be quick, real, easy, and free. Please please answer me
@@nightprowler6336 I can’t answer because I don’t know what you are doing. Enscape is a plug in so if you don’t have a second monitor you will lose your mind.
I think Twinmotion will be at their level sooner, since it's very promising under Epic games / unreal engine. The UI is really user friendly. And it can render photos and animation in seconds. And l'm even using only an i7 laptop 950M gtx.
Yup i agree. With Quixel Megascans, Metahuman, Nvidia DLSS now being a simple plugin etc all being under the Epic Games / Unreal Engine roof.. Seeing how fast UE is developing and the stuff they’re acquiring and making free to UE users is pretty amazing. EG must have an order of magnitude larger capital to pump into their platforms compared to Enscape / Lumion.. we’ll see if they think TwinMotion is a worthwhile place to invest it
Twinmotion is a great offering. It’s free, it can be bridged to UE4 and it has fantastic materials. Downside- it’s not very stable as Unreal Engine crashes on large scenes even with 128GB of Ram and a 2080 Ti on an over locked i9 990k 8-core/16thread machine. TM also has minimal rendering controls, but I use it. Lumion wins for Landscaping and conceptual rendering with its artistic filters, but it’s $3500! Yikes!!!
@Jerick Montero, can you explain why Twinmotion is 10-20x faster than Lumion? - I have tested it several times, still and animation render TWINMOTION WINS!!!!
@@scpk2246 Twinmotion doesn’t have the rendering effects and filters that Lumion does. That could be the speed difference. They both pale to D5 Render 2.0 for speed and realism. HD Video is going to be slow on them all.
I have both , and I use enscape just to visualize the project , but I don't render in it , lumion is muuuuch better , but in term of reflections , enscape looks pretty good actually....
I use both.. To me, Lumion offers wider option for rendering and animation. It can be fun to play with all adjustment.(which sometimes taking longer time to produce image just bscause we enjoy it/client waiting longwr :D While enscape is very effective and simplier.. Remember.those enscape objects(trees.cars.etc) are still visible in raw sketchup model. And for you who use sketchup Layout.. that objects might helps to visualize conceptual presentation dwg in layout.. just like old time...with all rough trees etc...
Enscape has jpg based displacement maps but not proper exr displacement maps, which look way - way better. This would really open up all the free materials on Quixel.
Well I think it all comes down to proficiency in the software .. 3D visualization in both software has come a long way. With the right setup and computer hardware you can achieve impressive photorealism in both. As an architect you are more focused on the detailing in a model because when functionality/ structure fails all else will fail ... visualization is just a tool for presentation and marketing .. from a design and technical standpoint I will pick Enscape over Lumion because its lighter on computer hardware, quite straight forward to setup rebers and produces pretty decent renders even with its presets, it is real time and seamlessly plugs into industry standard 3D software like Revit, SketchUp, Rhino etc .. I find Lumion more "gamer-ish" and landscape oriented and heavy on hardware .. comparing the required user input, workflow, render time and photorealism I think Enscape is well ahead of Lumion and perhaps even Vray... I have seen close up Enscape renders where even grains of sand were so realistically mapped out ... but like I said its my point of view .. I currently have both Lumion 12 and Enscape 3.4 installed on my pc .
I think Lumion is still stronger than enscape, by functions. But for me, enscape is easier to use, I think my PC thinks in the same way too, Lumion is soooo slow. (compared to enscape.)
I only use Lumion and really like it. Based on everything I've seen from both programs it seems that Enscape has more detail/contrast/depth for interiors but is not as good of quality as Lumion's nature assets and outdoor elements. Enscape is probably better for interior design while Lumion is better for Architecture/Landscaping. I design interiors and maybe one day I can switch to Enscape. The only drawback for me is that with Enscape it is integrated with SketchUp or whatever modeler you use. Lumion is stand alone and I like that MUCH better. That reason alone would make me go with Lumion.
@@emmawinn6129 Well in my workflow I like the render program to be the place where I do all the editing for lights and materials and asset objects. With Enscape.. it is not. You make the changes in the modeler like Sketchup. In that way it seems like it would be easier to work with and more intuitive if it were standalone. Seems like you would be bouncing back and forth alot of the time. What is SketchUp crashes? You may lose everything.. I can't judge too much since I've never used Enscape.
@@bradvanburen3803 Enscape has crashed multiple times for me and it's really frustrating when I'm getting down to the wire on a project. I have also had SketchUp crash, but not nearly as often. I think I figured out why Enscape was crashing and it hasn't crashed since, but still. And yeah, I hate that the lighting for Enscape is done in SketchUp.
@@emmawinn6129 Yeah I wouldn't like dealing with the lights in Sketchup for how it looks in the render model. Sorry it kept crashing. There was a time when Lumion crashed often for me but that was to do with size of my model and not enough memory on my computer. I hate crashes too :-(
@@bradvanburen3803 you could just dupe your model file and have one you build and edit for enscape. Also if you have 2 monitors making changes in your modeling software of choice and watching the changes live in enscape locked in the view you want is extremely beneficial
Wish Enscape’s VR viewer wasn’t so bugged on RTX 3000 series GPUs.. Also would love a hybrid option where you could say bake all the lighting /shallows into textures but just raytrace the reflections - Raytracing everything in your scene - at 2.5x the resolution of 4k in the case of the HP reverb G2 headset (any headset has to render higher than the headset’s panel resolution, before the lens distortion correction is applied, then sent to the display) and trying to do so at 90+ frames per second is science fiction currently, so that lighting workflow for VR would be awesome in the mean time. Would mean a static sun position though.
I think in a practical point of view it depends on the industry you are working with if the company is focused more on Architecture or Interior design production, Enscape for me is the best option combining speed and decent quality already enough to impress clients, lumion has still more better features to improve render quality but it definitely has higher hardware requirements and longer render times. Compared to enscape that has lower hardware requirements which also means lower investment cost given the fact that companies that require lumion and enscape skills generally just pays the same rate. But if you are working for a company that is focused more on the graphic design/multi-media industry which involves advanced 3D modelling, visualization and animation, Corona and Unreal Engine is the usual standard requirement.
what I hate in Lumion is REFLECTION AND SHADOW (specially reflection - e.g. Render of a Window Glass and a MIRROR is behind it, THE MIRROR'S REFLECTION IS WEIRD)
Not true. Enscape, as a plug in like V-ray that it’s emulating, has to apply material within Sketchups antiquated material editor, then adjusted. Lumion is drag and drop on to the imported model. It’s instant and customizable. Lumion is a far more robust program than Enscape. People who ask the question of which is better haven’t used both. Lumion has 10x more of everything.
Hi, I really like your video style! Can you please compare D5 and twinmotion? they are both based on UE4 imo. Thank u in advance, I am still hesitant to buy one of them two
Why lumion renders don't look satisfying real as enscape? Am I doing something wrong? I am using lumion since 2 years. Last week I tested enscape and it crashed many times so I lost interest.
Hello, The elements in a circular arc after being exported to Lumion are no longer real circles, but arcs or circles composed of lines. How to restore them?
What do u mean by saying enscape is the standard render in the marker and for proficinals .. so Lumion is for a mature ?!! Then u where saying there is a live sync for Enscape with sketchup and revit , well it's also possible in lumion with sketchup , revit , Archicad , Rhino , and 3d Autocad .and many features u said it's in enscape are already in Lumion and I dont know why sometimes in the video u r showing an old version of Lumion which was not good as 10th version of the software , and last the price of Lumion ( 1499 ) is not per year its permanent unless u wanna upgrade there is amount of money for upgrade .
Enscape became the standard for one simple reason: money. Why to pay 4 times more for the equivalent results? In business, money tends to decide who is the best...
@@edmarferreirajunior724 time is money also Lumion is so easy to use , fast , huge library smooth workflow . U will invest for one time only so every dollar worth it . For the great features in Lumion .
enscape requirment is very less as compare to lumion , i have core i3 4150+gtx750 2gb+8gb, enscape ran smoothly .But incase of lumion at he start , it will benchmark our pc , thats there my pc fail but however lumion run like sh@t. so according to my opinion enscape win, for fast work ,easy use, no high cpu&gpu requirement.
How were u able to run enscape on your system ? I also use a core i3 2g graphics memory,8gig ram and 1tb memory space.... it’s a intel(r) HD 4000.....enscape doesn’t run on my laptop it keeps displaying the 5% loading mark and then it will stop to respond then I’ll be forced to close it
@@sheiladesmond3526 2.7 is stable and even 3.0 both are good , currently im using 3.0, however not smooth as 2.7 but have great function and doesnt stuck evem yoy render at 8k , 2.7 stuck at 4k render.
Sounds like you deliberately try to make Lumion appear less capable, especially when you talk about what the program offers. Like when you talk about the library of assets, that you can easily move around in the scene in Enscape, the large variety of realistic textures in the library… You know that all this is found in Lumion also, right? So if you are making a comparison video, please be more honest and less biased. Or maybe try telling the truth and let us, decide for ourselves.
