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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

Painting the landscape


Although we have 20 presets to entirely change the look of the landscape, this doesn't mean that we cannot change any settings and actually paint the landscape. This recipe explores the Paint submenu and shows how we can use Lumion's textures to paint and change the landscape completely.

Getting ready

Use a proxy of your building as a reference in the scene so that you can focus your attention just on the terrain.

How to do it…

To start painting the landscape in your project, perform the following steps:

  1. Select the Landscape menu on the left-hand side of the screen.

  2. Select the Paint submenu, the one with a brush as an icon.

  3. The following screenshot is the menu that appears:

  4. With the left mouse button pressed, you can start painting the terrain.

  5. Each square represents the different materials in the landscape, but you will not see them if you are using a flat terrain.

  6. On top of each thumbnail is the Edit Type button, which is characterized by a small arrow icon.

  7. Click on one of...