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Lumion 3D Cookbook

By : Ciro Cardoso
Book Image

Lumion 3D Cookbook

By: Ciro Cardoso

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Lumion 3D Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating a camera path


Creating a clip in Lumion involves using a method called camera path. In Lumion, a movie is made up of one or more clips, and each clip needs a camera path to be animated. The camera path is not a physical path that we can create and make the camera follow. Instead, the camera path is set by multiple snapshots that define the different camera positions. The Movie mode is where we can find the tools required to create this camera path and start bringing life to our world.

Getting ready

Before we start, just a reminder that to navigate to some of the viewports in the Movie mode, we need to use the same keys and mouse buttons that we use in the Build mode. As an aide memoire, the following are some of the most used shortcuts to navigate in Lumion:

  • WSAD or arrow keys: These move the camera forward, backward, or to the left or right

  • Q: This moves the camera upward

  • E: This moves the camera downward

  • Spacebar + WSAD and QE: These slow down the camera speed

  • Shift + WSAD and QE...