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Mastering Lumion 3D

By : Ciro Cardoso
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Mastering Lumion 3D

By: Ciro Cardoso

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Mastering Lumion 3D
Ciro Cardoso
Dec, 2014 | 286 pages
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering Lumion 3D
Mastering Lumion 3D
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Ready for Lumion 3D
Getting Ready for Lumion 3D
Starting to work with Lumion
A quick overview
Modeling for Lumion
Importance of materials
Exporting the 3D model
Common problems and solutions
Summary
2
Creating a Project in Lumion
Creating a Project in Lumion
Creating a scene in Lumion
Importing a proxy or a low geometry 3D model
Sculpting the terrain
Working with the Terrain submenu
Workflow optimization (best practices)
Using Lumion's layers
Summary
3
Importing 3D Models
Importing 3D Models
The importance of planning
Importing 3D models
Adding Lumion's objects to the scene
Placing the 3D models
Rearranging 3D models
Updating a 3D model with new geometry
Replacing 3D models
Common problems (troubleshooting)
Locking a 3D model
Summary
4
Applying and Creating Materials
Applying and Creating Materials
Material or texture
A quick overview of Lumion's materials
Working with materials
Using imported materials in Lumion
Creating materials in Lumion
Organizing materials
Common problems (troubleshooting)
Summary
5
Creating Your 3D World
Creating Your 3D World
Lumion models – a quick overview
Project planning
Placing and controlling 3D models in Lumion
The remarkable Context menu
Editing the properties of a 3D model
Creating grass and using the Scatter elements
Summary
6
Lighting in Lumion
Lighting in Lumion
Lumion lighting – a quick overview
Exterior lighting with the Weather menu
Interior lighting with Lumion's lights
Summary
7
Creating Realistic Visualizations
Creating Realistic Visualizations
Special effects – fire, smoke, and fog
Photo and Movie effects
Sun study – what is it and how can it be useful
Tweaking shadows using the Shadow effect
Creating realistic reflections
Improving the realism with Camera effects
Working with Horizon and Volume Clouds
Render still Images with the Photo mode
Summary
8
Non-photorealistic Visualizations with Lumion
Non-photorealistic Visualizations with Lumion
Non-photorealistic rendering
Benefits of using NPR's illustrations
How can Lumion help us?
Moving, deleting, and hiding effects
How to use the artistic effects
Conceptual visualization with the Painting, Watercolor, and Sketch effects
Technical illustrations with the Manga and Cartoon effects
Summary
9
Animation Techniques
Animation Techniques
Lumion's Movie mode – a quick overview
Creating a movie in Lumion
Motive and the need to create a storyboard
Lumion's Movie mode – the workflow
Summary
10
Creating Walk-through Visualizations
Creating Walk-through Visualizations
Lumion's video effects – a quick overview
Best practices – copying effects from the Photo mode
Editing the scene in the Movie mode
Improving the movie using additional effects
Visual effects – Rain, Snow, and much more
Enriching the movie using sound
Playing safe with the Broadcast Safe effect
Final touches using the Titles and In/Out effects
Rendering the final movie
Summary
Index
Index

About the Author

Ciro Cardoso is a self-taught 3D artist and training author specialized in architectural visualization. He started off painting and drawing traditionally and then got into 3D graphics in 2000.

In 2005, he was running his own small multimedia business working on projects as diverse as graphic designing, CAD services, and architectural visualization projects. More recently, he started using Lumion and game engines for multimillion dollar projects in the United Kingdom, Portugal, the Netherlands, Angola, and Cape Verde. He is quite conversant with software in general, with extensive expertise in Maya, 3ds Max, AutoCAD, SketchUp, V-Ray, Corona, Photoshop, Lumion, Unreal 4, and Bentley MicroStation. He is also the author of Getting Started with Lumion and Lumion 3D Cookbook, both by Packt Publishing.

He now lives in London, working as an architectural visualizer, and does voluntary work teaching 3D. He can be reached through his website, http://www.cirocardoso.net.

Firstly, I would like to express my gratitude towards my family for making me a curious person. A big thanks goes to my wife for her support, love, and patience throughout the process of writing this book, even if that meant staying home during weekends. I believe that without her, this book would not have been possible.

I would like to express my thanks to the Packt Publishing team for the opportunity to author this book, and also for the effort and support to produce this book.

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