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Lumion 3D Best Practices

By : John Brown, Ciro Cardoso, Ciro Cardoso
Book Image

Lumion 3D Best Practices

By: John Brown, Ciro Cardoso, Ciro Cardoso

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Lumion 3D Best Practices
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Optimizing before rendering


Now that you know how to render a movie and a still image, it is time to export your scene. Exporting a still image may take a couple seconds but when working with movies you may start to worry and in some situations, panic. The reason for this is because you don't have one still image to render; you have 15000 frames (a 10 minute movie with 25fps), and if each frame takes 1 minute to render that means you need 250 hours to render 10 minutes.

First of all, keep in mind that the graphics card makes all the difference, and there is nothing in this world that will make the render go faster. However, you can help by making smart choices. Let's start with the first:

  • Global Illumination effect: This effect takes a toll on the render time. Personally, I have seen render times cut by half when this effect is removed. The solution for not using this effect is a good use of the fill light and you will probably need a couple of these lights with a low intensity in your scene...