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Lumion 3D Cookbook

By : Ciro Cardoso

4.2 (6)

Lumion 3D Cookbook

4.2 (6)

By: Ciro Cardoso

Overview of this book

This book offers uses practical applications using recipes with step-by-step instructions and useful information to help you master how to produce professional architectural visualizations in Lumion. The cookbook approach means you need to think and explore how a particular feature can be applied in your project and perform the intended task. This book is written to be accessible to all Lumion users and is a useful guide to follow when becoming familiar with this cutting-edge real-time technology.This practical guide is designed for all levels of Lumion users who know how to model buildings in 3D and a basic understanding of Lumion, who want to enhance their skills to the next level.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Importing in Lumion

1. Importing in Lumion

Introduction

Importing your own 3D models

Importing animations from 3ds Max

Navigating in Lumion

Relocating your imported 3D models

Reverting your last action

Locking your 3D model's position

Organizing your 3D world with layers

Updating your imported 3D models

Replacing an imported 3D model

2. Placing the Content

2. Placing the Content

Introduction

Placing 3D models

Copying 3D models

Removing 3D models

Placing models on the terrain

Placing multiple 3D models

Randomizing the size of 3D models

Configuring 3D models

Placing 3D models accurately

3. Manipulating and Controlling 3D Models

3. Manipulating and Controlling 3D Models

Introduction

Selecting multiple 3D models

Selecting different categories

Transforming and selecting any 3D model

Spacing multiple 3D models

Aligning different 3D models' orientations

Snapping multiple 3D models

Randomizing 3D models' orientation

Rotate on model

Constraining the 3D model's rotation

4. Constructing Your World

4. Constructing Your World

Introduction

Shaping the terrain

Configuring the terrain brushes

Working with the Terrain menu

Changing the landscape

Painting the landscape

Blending the 3D model with the terrain

Working with heightmaps

Adding water in Lumion

Creating a seashore

5. Controlling the Weather

5. Controlling the Weather

Introduction

Defining the sun's direction

Modifying the sun's settings

Tweaking the shadows

Tuning the skylight

Adding soft shadows

Configuring the global illumination

Modifying and animating the clouds

Setting up fog

Making it rain and snow

Controlling the wind

Using the Sun study effect

6. Working with Lumion Materials

6. Working with Lumion Materials

Introduction

Rolling back materials

Configuring materials

Making the 3D model invisible

Creating a realistic glass

Saving materials

Streaming water

Glowing materials

Adding realistic grass

Improving reflections

Correcting flickering

7. Special Features

7. Special Features

Introduction

Creating fire

Adding fumes and vapors

Placing fountains

Falling leaves

Adding text

Using the clip plane

Controlling effects in the Movie and Photo modes

Checking effects in real time

8. Getting Realism with Camera Effects

8. Getting Realism with Camera Effects

Introduction

Using the Bloom effect

Adding lens' errors

Correcting the color

Separating objects with DOF

Simulating the Lens flare effects

Using God rays

Adding noise

Isolating colors with Lumion

Using the Vignette effect

Sharpening your image

9. Non-photorealistic Effects

9. Non-photorealistic Effects

Introduction

Adding a Manga effect

Using toon shading

Painting your image

Drawing with a pencil

Painting with Watercolor

Creating stills

Using special formats

Creating and combining different NPR effects

10. Bringing Your World to Life

10. Bringing Your World to Life

Introduction

Creating a camera path

Changing clips

Animating the 3D models

Bringing people to life

Controlling the camera

Animating curved paths

Animating the camera's focus

Using motion blur

Animating the layers

Configuring the Near Clip Distance effect

Animating effects

11. Creating Videos

11. Creating Videos

Introduction

Affecting individual clips

Affecting the entire video

Handling the clips

Creating transitions

Camera effects

Using the Titles effect

Framing and composition

Adding sound

12. Rendering

12. Rendering

Introduction

Exporting videos

Rendering individual clips

Rendering stills

Rendering an image sequence

Broadcasting on TV

Working with perspectives

Rendering passes

13. Lighting

13. Lighting

Introduction

Using spotlights

Previewing spotlights

Configuring the properties of light

Setting up shadows

Tweaking the Global Illumination effect

Using the Exposure effect

Working with reflection control

Index

Index

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Organizing your 3D world with layers

From the beginning of our project with Lumion, it is very important for us to organize and categorize our 3D world. Sometimes we may not do this straightaway, and only after importing some 3D models and adding some content from the Lumion library we realize the need to organize our project in a better way. So, we are going to see how to use layers and how to assign the existing 3D models to a new layer.

Getting ready

Remember that the Layer menu will only appear when we have the Import or Objects menu selected.

How to do it…

With our scene opened, perform the following steps:

Select the Import or Objects menu.
On the top-left corner of the screen, you can locate the Layer menu, as shown in the following screenshot:
Select the Layer 1 option and rename it for something more precise, such as Trees.
With this layer selected, go to the Objects menu.
Add a tree to your scene.
At this moment, the tree you added is inside the layer Trees, and you can hide or show this layer by clicking on the icon that represents an eye.

If you want to add a 3D model to a layer, perform the following steps:

Select the 3D model.
Go to the Layer menu and select the correct layer.
Use the Move selection to layer button to move your 3D model to the layer you want, as you can see in the following screenshot:

There's more…

We can create up to 20 layers, which gives plenty of room to make full use of the layers feature. Don't forget that in order to use these layers, we need to select the correct layer before placing or importing a 3D model of our scene; otherwise, the 3D models will be placed in the first layer or the layer you have selected. Having our scene arranged with layers will also help us to know if our workstation is starting to struggle with the amount of 3D models we have in Lumion, and switching off a few layers will give us a little room to breathe and improve the speed.

See also

To control the layers, check the Animating the layers recipe in Chapter 10, Bringing Your World to Life

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