Service pack 2, Build 8: ________________________ Bug fixes: - SpeedTree no longer displays the 8964 pop-up message in certain situations.

- The top row of pixels of Clip type -> Image in Photo mode is now correct. - Clouds are now animated even if the "Cloud Control" slider is set to 0. - Typing in "Focal Length" values manually in Movie mode no longer switches to s aved camera views. - The "Threshold" slider in the "Lensflare" effect can be animated again. - The camera no longer gets stuck after selecting aligned objects. - It is now possible to add materials to an imported object in scenes with more than 4500 objects. - Sun Position Effect -> Sun Height -> Next Keyframe no longer switches the came ra view to the next clip. - Trees/plants and particle effects are now reflected in glass and reflective ma terials. - IMG sequence -> .TGAs are no longer saved as .JPGs - Shadows from animated people are now in sync again. - Fog is now rendered behind glass. Added or changed: - If you turn on Settings -> Show Frames per Second, uou can now see the positio n of objects that you are moving. - The "Shadow range" effect is now capped at 2.0 instead of 1.0.

Service pack 2, Build 7: ________________________ Bug fixes: - Cars are no longer too reflective. - SpeedTree billboards are now rendered correctly again. - It is now possible to highlight all surfaces in "Edit materials" mode without having to move the camera. - Shift + Move now works when animating objects. - The 3D view in Photo mode no longer overlaps saved camera presets. - Smooth edges -> Sub pixel amount now works as expected. Added or changed: - If you press F9, all trees and plants in the viewport will be rendered at thei r best level of detail, so that it's easier to see where you need to add more tr ees and plants in a scene. - You can now place objects a lot further away from the center of your scenes. - The grass that was included in Build 6 has been improved further. - The default values of the "Noise" effect were changed. - Reflection maps of some cars and construction vehicles have been improved. - The Alpine Dwelling example scene has been updated. - The position of the "Overbright" slider is now 5 pixels lower in some color pa lette menus. - "God rays" and "Motion blur" effects have been moved to the Scene effects tab.

Service pack 2, Build 6: ________________________ Bug fixes: - The end of a camera animation is now smoother than before.

- Ambient occlusion shadows (SSAO) have been improved quite a lot. - The "baking" process which optimises rendering performance for many identical objects is now a lot faster and uses far less memory. - Thumbnails of saved scenes are no longer squashed. - The pitch value of materials is no longer set to 1 by default. - The Depth Offset slider in the Color material no longer adjusts the Overbright slider at the same time - The end position of an animated object can now be set again without changing t he camera perspective. - Models no longer disappear when resizing the Lumion window. - A number of typos in the user interface were fixed. - Edit Materials -> "Escape" no longer causes the materials of one object to be inherited by the next object that is edited. - Shortcut key 3 no longer opens the Material Editor. - The object selection of aligned models no longer gets stuck. - The camera viewport no longer switches while typing in "0" in sliders. - Color Effects -> Fade in/out is now 100% black. - 2D silhouettes can now be scaled correctly. - Escape (Adv. Move) -> Move + SHIFT now works as expected. - Teleporting people/trees should no longer occur when using the "Animate object s" effect. - The exposure no longer spikes every time Lumion window is resized during movie renderings. Added or changed: - A new "Show Layer" effect with keyframes has been added, so that you can show the different stages of the construction of a building in a single clip. - Edge smoothing in movies has been dramatically improved thanks to a new "Smoot h edges" effect which will be replacing the old "MLAA" effect. This effect is id eal for rendering movies in 2-star mode if you haven't got time for the more cos tly x16 edge smoothing in 3-star mode. - The Tree Pack has been updated with a bunch of lovely new palm trees, corals, water lilys and grass objects which should make your scenes look more realistic than ever. - Imported objects in Documents/Lumion/Library can now be placed in manually cre ated folders. - Movie section - > Image clip: PNG/TGA/DDS files are now shown in the open file window. - The sun and cubemap are now updated while adjusting the sliders in the "Cloud settings" effect. - Fire particle effects are now brighter by default. - "Focal length" is now included as a Movie effect that can be keyframed.

Service pack 2, Build 5: ________________________ Build 5 was only released as a "Lumion Free" version and is essentially the same as Build 4 but with certain restrictions.

Service pack 2, Build 4: ________________________ Bug fixes: - Improved camera path when making a "ping pong" motion - Rotating UVs and Rotating objects bump map lighting fixed - Fixed scale for several trees

- Imported objects now have correct scale - Several errors concerning keyframes have been fixed - Some computers could not update their license file so activation/deactivation was impossible - In 64 bit the lower part of some trees was invisible - Too many fountains on screen at once resulted in rendering errors - Overlay image had wrong aspect ratio in final image render - Several improvements for animating objects - Trashcan icon missing for imported library items - Fixed god rays errors and restricted god rays effect range - Flipped normals certain imported models - God rays did not combine well with depth of field - Billboards from SketchUp were broken - Animate objects effect now allows you to select objects - Detail level on trees was very low on final render - Scenes were not saved automatically upon exit - Billboards now turn towards the camera more accurately - Sun color did not influence fog properly Added or changed: - Movie camera now allows you to set the speed of the camera - UI improvements for the Movie camera - Removed clip speed and clip beginning/end effects - Trees now have alpha transparency when rendering final quality movies or image s - When selecting objects they are filtered by object types - New installer which works for both 32 and 64 bit - Tweaked ranges of some of the sliders - Tweaked naming troughout the program - Fresnel reflection now uses Schlick's approximation - UI tweaks for move object effect - Added key frame capability to more effects - Several changes to DOF to improve usability - Memory improvements for selecting objects - Imorted models can now have PSD textures - You now have to provide a name before saving - Effect thumbnails replaced by text labels - Press shift when placing items for ramdom scale - Press ctrl when placing items for multiple items at once - New effect for changing the camera clip distance

Service pack 2: ________________________ Bug fixes: - This release has countless fixes throughout the software. Added or changed: - Added a color picker. You can also CTRL+V paste a 6-digit hexadecimal value in the color box. - Create a new item movement system. Now you select a move type and the small ic on itself immediatly does this action - Dongle replaced by an online activation system - New examples scene - New home screen - Created a plugin system which is linked to the activation system. * Trees and plants * Enviroment and Weather (ocean and waterfall shader)

* People and animals (6 fish and all the 2d and 3d sillouettes) * Movie effects (Dof Lensflare Sharpen and Painting) * Special effects (Fog fire smoke and fountains) New advanced controls in weather mode New tonemapping for better color processing New flare and bloom effects Improved ambient occlusion Clipping distance to 35 KM You can now turn the side rocks of the landscape on and off Simple key frame system in movie mode Type in values for sliders by double clicking them

Service Pack 1: ________________________ Bug fixes: - When bloom and streaks where removed fog was not visible - In lowest quality level fog was never visible - Custom AutoUV didn't set all texture and custom settings - Custom AutoUV and base materials of Lumion couldn't use the original texture U V - Some new scenes had SSOA range on maximum and a water model in the void - Our rotated grid AA was not active in 1920x1080 and 1280x720 screenshots - On ATI cards car colors where black while painting - Sometimes a material initialisation file didn't load and reinited the material - Freeimage now uses a different dll name to avoid collision - Fixed a few issues with bloom improving performance and memory usage - Deleting and adding a new object with the same name now works - The white landscape option had a problem with the correct shader - The landscape set icons now update correctly the first time you load a landsca pe - Reloading a model had a problem if surfaces where removed - We had a library inconsistency with the FBX reader plugin resulting in rotated models - Fixed problem when saving image sequences. You can properly save all image seq uence types - Standard material will now have correct reflection when not defining a custom bumpmap - Fixed a problem with moving the imported models to a new layer - Glass shader didn't clear its texture if not used - print resolution photo had an antialiasing problem also in low memory mode the antialiasing was incorrect - on ATI cards characters had incorrect rotation when moving them with the move items movie effect - the home menu text was not visible on a 2500x1600 monitor - after move items the icon type would always be movement - fixed a problem where trees would become billboards when you get a backbuffer loss during minimizing a rendering movie - fixed a problem where sometimes a movie rendered and had 1 frame that jittered - the heightmap import was flipped - fixed an issue with the loss of the backbuffer while rendering producing white flashes - image sequences will now always save even if no image type is used - on ati cards the shadow of people had a small problem - image clips in movies overwrote all previous images - in a movie characters their animation was to fast - you can't use the cut and speed effect on the main movie anymore - fixed an issue with hiding layers in the movie effects - saved movies might miss the last second of frames

- tweaked the shadow a bit to be better on small objects - the 3d helpers now draw before the interface - removing clip speed and clip cut now correctly removes the effect from the cli p - adding clip speed will now also slow down or speed up character movement - fixed a few typo's - rotation is now copied to copy of trees using ALT + move - focal lenght now correctly is set for saved camera positions in photomode - fixed a bug where reload wouldn't work if you didn't yet edit a material - removed a bug where you could delete the main effect - fixed a bug with the filetypes in movie mode - fixed an issue where models would get multiple surface when they had to many v ertexes - fixed an issue with moving items not being removed correctly - fixed an issue with selecting menus Added or changed: - When icons are at the exact same position they will now get a small offset thi s works up to 5 icons maximum - Added 2d billboard material for custom billboards that face the camera - Added DDS and PNG to texture loaded dialog - The LOD of trees for final movie and photo is now 9999 times further - Q and E now move up and down the camera - Added tangient calculations for original UV maps for use with Lumion material system - Moved the help button so incidental click is reduced - Created a paging system for materials so that you can have more materials on a model - In record mode sliding now also sets the exposure and focal animations - Stopping an animation uses the camera at the moment of stop as the new camera - Playing shows a play bar in record mode - Renamed the custom materials and gave new icons and new slider names - Default settings for materials changed - Selection of materials for new materials is now order dependend - Siderock parameter now also works for the rock material - Deleting a custom object from the library deselects that model - You cant delete a model from your library that is in use - Panning now also works with shift to make it faster - Pressing G in advanced move now always puts the object on the ground - The camera now stops moving quicker - In advanced move rotate is now relative - Shadow range can now be set from 0 to 2 which changes the far ranges from 400 to 1500 - In advanced move mode shift moves the current selection plus dragging object - You can now add effects over the whole movie making it easier to move people a nd cars - You can now have different water settings per material - There now is a movie effect that lets you control the reflection point range a nd type - you can now also use move item on imported models - the layer select context menu now shows which layer the clicked model is in - you can now lock all movement of objects through its context menu - when using the space command rotation is now retained - when using F11 to go to full window pressing CTRL + F11 will go to full screen with the resolution of the desktop - you can now see the path of items in move item mode - characters show their rotation in move item mode - new flowers - new cows - new bushes

- new misc items - updated turbines correct size - you can now use overscan rendering to avoid SSOA problems and God ray problems (fog shadow) - you can now see an estimate of the total render time left - you can now render a clip only select the clip to render the clip select whole movie to render whole movie - you can now see the total render time left as a guess - you can now aniate the SSOA range - you can now also multiply your lightmap - wheels of transport items will now rotate when you move them in a straight lin e - you no longer can paint on trees and foiliage - new britisch traffic signs - the standard material now also supports alpha mask with a cutoff at 0.5 - added new godrays movie effect - the G key now is chagned so that it paints on objects except cars and people - improved the underwater view - added a fish more fish to come - made the cut clip effet more intuitive - you can now press L while selecting objects to lock the selection - the context menu now has a random scale/rotate option for easy variations in s ize - pressing F for flat will now try to change the pitch and bank of an object so that it is flat on the landscape only works for native landscape - you can now use CTRL + 1 2..9 0 to store a position of the camera and its foca l length pressing 1 2...9 0 will restore that shot and photo mode will have tumb nails - if you add an effect on the main movie it will always select the first categor y - you can now tweak the shadow clipping range to get correct shadows on small an d large models - added help for scaling slider in standard materials and set it to 0 default so that it uses UV coords from the model by default - changed the way button presses are handled now it can be pressed a frame late but should feel much more responsive at low fps - made some typografical changes - moved the FPS counter to the right - you can now save the email picture in different formats - when adding a bumpmap to the standard material the bump value is not automatic ally set to 0.5 - press [SHIFT] while moving items to not change its height - movies now render in small steps to improve stability - with CTRL [F] object will now try to follow the normal of the normal under the mouse to allow placing models on custom roads - changed the object backing methods to work differently when placing models go to the weather or other section to bake your items and get more fps - pressing CTRL while using the space command will now set the height of the mod els relative to eachother not the Lumion ground