CentiLeo might be a bit more popular than Lumion. We know about 2 links to it since March 2021 and only 2 links to Lumion. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
To download it you have to login into your account https://lumion.com/ Go to My Account, then License Keys, then View more and you will get an option Download Product. Source: about 1 year ago
But for high end archviz images, its still not quite there. For this quality, especially for quick/underpaid projects I'd rather stick to Lumion then. Source: almost 3 years ago
That being said - Centileo is a GPU render engine with C4D plugin integration that's free while it's in development, so you can try it out if you like. The only drawback is that you wont get a tonne of tutorials on it, so you'll probably have to figure a lot out on your own or watch other tutorials and do your own translations to it. Also, as it's in development, I would expect it to have some bugs. Source: 12 months ago
Hum, if I wanted to render animated stuff, I'd definitely try Unreal (with nanite can basically ingest raw sculpts) also they seem pretty fuzzy about the licensing as a 'render engine', basically you can just use it, prman is not exactly cheap... Or maybe hook up with some independent types... Like https://centileo.com, for collaborations... Source: over 1 year ago
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