One more thing about this license is that you cannot use this version for commercial purposes because it only allows for educational purposes. You can visit its official website for more detail about included features of this version. This product includes V-ray for Maya, V-ray for 3ds Max, V-ray for SketchUp, V-ray for Mado, V-ray for Unreal, V-ray for Houdini, and many more things you can have in this package. For the Edu product license you have to pay $149 per year and it is for educators as well as for students. The first one is commercial and the other is Educational.
Now if you want to purchase V-ray then you will have two types of its products as we have in Lumion.If I tell you about the commercial package of it then you can visit its official website for having information about pricing but you can have Lumion Pro 8 by paying $249 and the main things about its pricing it that it varies according to the versions and features includes with that package. The first one is a commercial package and another one is an Educational package where if you are an educator or student and want to use it for non-commercial purpose then you can use Educational package without pay any charges and you will have advanced features of Lumion 11.0 with this version also.
It has a lot of promise if it gets developed & gets support. Frustrated Lumion users have been posting links to Twinmotion, another realtime software. However, unlike E-on, makers of Lumen RT, the developers communicate pretty well through the forums. But sometimes I get the feeling that the developers are really struggling. I want Lumion to succeed since I have a lot of money in this program.
I get the feeling that a lot of people are waiting to upgrade until they see the results & problems of folks who do upgrade. I lot of former cheer leaders have disappeared over the year. The arrival of V5 this week did not arrive to cheers of hundreds on the forum like last year. What has been very difficult to for many users is that some upgrade features don't work 100% as advertised, such as the grass feature where the 3d blades of grass abruptly transition to a texture at a certain distance from the camera. Then we make still images & videos, very easily & fast. Then we add Lumion entourage & weather effects.
All of the materials come into Lumion where we then tweak them. I use Revit to create the building design, export out a dwg to Sketchup, texture the model, export a collada file & then import into Lumion. Some advanced & talented users, like with any software, get great results. It makes great videos & good enough still images at blazing speeds. The voluntary upgrade cost for small users, $1500 per year, is pretty tough to swallow. I've used Lumion 3 & 4 for the past 2 years with great success.