It seems Luxology is no longer available as a rendering option with the latest CE Update 16. The announcement was made in the general Microstation Forum, but not here in the Visualization Forum, which I would have thought should be the case.
This post is just to warn users that their current projects which rely on Luxology rendering would be forced to use Path Tracing/ Ray Tracing - this could be a problem if you have imminent deadlines which rely on render settings already established in CE15 and earlier. Fortunately, v8i SS10 is still available to perform these renders if you have it installed.
I've not had time to test the Vue renderer - and it may turn out to be an improvement - but just thought people subscribed to this forum should be informed.
Max
Hi Martin - from this post; https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/f/microstation-forum/215713/vue-is-now-the-default-microstation-rendering-solution/657224#657224 ... the takeaway is "we also retired Luxology". I don't know if it can still be called up within CE 16, but it doesn't seem so.
I tried a render of one of my old large v8i scenes, and of course many of the carefully crafted custom render settings are gone so there's no smooth transition from old projects to new. The expectation, I think, is that we only start with new projects in CE16.
By the way, my test took 7 minutes to produce a completely unpredictable result in CE16 (v8i did the same render in 2.5 minutes). This doesn't necessarily mean Vue is slow (or bad) - it's just that I've not set the project up to work with it.
Martin Francis said:and I can’t find where the old, slow but very good Luxology render is in Connect 16, any ideas ?
I recommend to start with New and Changed in MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 16 chapter:
Note: The Luxology Render settings are now replaced by the advanced VUE Render Setup Manager. If you wish to use Luxology for your renders you will need a token to enable it. Help content for Luxology is no longer available in MicroStation, however, you may find help for some ancillary topics related to Luxology still available in the help.
Regards,
Jan
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Hi Martin,
Do you have a testcase which causes vue to crash with large models. I will investigate this.
Regards
Paul
We have requested that token (took some doing to prove it was a thing to Bentley support) - but it too has an expiry date so is not a long term solution.