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Mastering Lumion 3D

By : Ciro Cardoso
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Mastering Lumion 3D

By: Ciro Cardoso

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering Lumion 3D
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using Lumion's layers


Layers are an essential feature found in almost all 3D applications. The reason why layers are so useful in Lumion is because we can organize our scene, animate them with some special layer effects, and use them to improve the speed of Lumion's viewport. If we look to the top-right corner of the Build mode, we will see something like this:

What is the difference between each image and how does that affect us?

Why use layers?

The number highlighted in the previous image represents the frames per second that is rendered by Lumion. In the image of the left side, the layers with trees, plants, and additional content were turned on and the frames per second was 20, which is not too bad.

However, when they were turned off, on the right-hand side, we see the frames per second going from 20 to 74. With frames per second, the higher the value, the faster the Lumion's viewport will be, and the control we have over the scene increases drastically. So, we can see that it pays to make...