Lumion vs Foveate
These are not competing purchases. Lumion is where you produce the rendering. Foveate is where that rendering, and everything else in the proposal, gets delivered and tracked.
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What is Lumion?
Lumion is a real-time rendering application with a large library of materials and landscaping. It renders your model into stills, video, and 360 panoramas, ready to bring into your proposal and is not designed to be used as a proposal delivery tool.
What is Foveate?
Foveate is where the visuals you produce become a proposal that wins the work. Everything sits inside one live link, tailored to what a client responds to, and reports who opened it and what held their attention.
Lumion vs Foveate
Where each tool sits in the work of winning a project.
Capability
Lumion
What Lumion is for
- ✓Photorealistic stills or animation, where quality is the deciding factor.
- ✓A render that stays in step with the model as the design develops.
- ✓Landscape, context, and atmosphere, with a content library that saves you days.
- ✓Art-directed output, given the Windows hardware and the time in the schedule.
What Foveate is for
- ✓Putting that rendering in front of the client as part of a full proposal, with fee, schedule, and team alongside it.
- ✓Reaching decision-makers who will open it on a laptop or phone with nothing installed.
- ✓Knowing who read what before you follow up.
- ✓One link that stays current as several stakeholders look at it at different times.
Built to work together
Lumion produces the rendering. Foveate is where that rendering lives once it needs to reach a client, exported as a still, an animation, or a 360 panorama and placed straight into the proposal alongside your narrative, fee, and schedule. Firms that win consistently tend to run both, because Lumion was never built to report on who actually opened what it made.
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Can I use Lumion output inside a Foveate proposal?
- Yes, and this is the normal way the two are used together. Stills, video, and 360 panoramas produced in Lumion can be placed in a Foveate proposal alongside an interactive model, so the client gets both the rendered imagery Lumion produced and the ability to explore the space themselves, inside a link you can track.
- Is Foveate a replacement for Lumion?
- No, and it is not meant to be. Lumion is a visualization tool with a live connection to your design model and a higher rendering ceiling. Foveate is where the finished rendering gets delivered to a client and tracked. They handle different stages of the same project.
- Does Foveate import Lumion files directly?
- No. Foveate reads glTF and GLB. Export your geometry to GLB from your authoring tool such as Revit, Rhino, or SketchUp, and export imagery or video from Lumion separately, since Foveate's job starts once the design is ready to present.
- Which is better for a client who is not technical?
- A browser link generally has the lowest barrier, because there is nothing to install or open. A rendered video is equally easy to watch but does not let the client look where they want, which is why the two are typically combined rather than chosen between.
- Do I need a powerful computer for either one?
- Lumion is a desktop application that depends on a capable GPU. Foveate renders in the browser, so the demand sits on the viewer's device and is tuned for ordinary laptops and phones rather than workstations.
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