Tips to prevent Lumion hanging or crashing when importing detailed models

When working with complex project, sometimes your models are so detailed or large that would cause Lumion hanging or to crashing. To prevent that case, there are some tips and instructions that you can follow.

• • • • Increase the amount of Virtual Memory in Windows

One reason for Lumion hanging is that it may sometimes run out of Graphics Card Memory and System Memory. If that happens, Virtual Memory will be used. This memory type relies on free space on the hard disk.

You can follow this link to increase the Virtual Memory.

It’s recommended that you should have at least 50GB, and 100-150GB for very complex Projects.

• • • • You can always quit other demanding applications in order to maximize the amount of free System Memory.
      • Confirm that there are at least 30 GB of free space on the drive that the Documents folder is located on.

Skimp: This tool reduces the polygon count of your model and includes an importer with a texture placement material remap tool.

Material Resizer: This tool checks the material texture sizes in your model and let you quickly resize them.

CleanUp3: This tool cleans up and optimizes your SketchUp model.

The Surface Smoothing slider allows you to define how detailed curvy surfaces should be.

If you set it up to the maximum value, the importing time and the rendering speed in Lumion will be affected. Therefore, to have a better performance, it’s recommended to set the slider to the lowest possible value that still ensures that curvy objects look reasonably smooth.

You should use the Density setting to reduce the smoothness of curvy models before exporting them to Lumion:

Rhino top menu -> File -> Properties -> Mesh -> Custom -> Density -> 0.0

There’s one modifier in 3ds Max called ProOptimizer to reduce the detail level of curvy models before exporting them to Lumion.

You can adjust the OpenGL options to reduce the level of Detail.

• • • • Add an exclusion for ‘Lumion.exe’ to your anti-virus/security software, following this link.
      • Hide surfaces that are unimportant in your 3D/CAD software before importing the model in Lumion.
      • Consider splitting up the model in several parts and import them as separate models in Lumion.
      • Consider installing more System Memory.

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Source: lumion.com