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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

Adding Lumion's objects to the scene


To import a Lumion 3D model, we need to use another menu called Objects. I am sure you still remember the Checking Lumion's content section, where we saw that after opening this menu, we have access to eight categories of 3D models and objects to populate the scene.

On the left-hand side, open the Objects menu, and by default, the Nature category is selected. Let's stick to this category for now and select the Place object button, as shown in the following screenshot:

As you can see in the previous screenshot, a tree is already loaded, and when we click on the button again, the yellow wireframe box appears. This yellow box is very useful because, without too much effort, we get feedback on how big the object is. Also, since the box is only a wireframe, we can see where the 3D model will be placed. If you need to change the 3D model, there is a thumbnail called Change object above the Place object button; this thumbnail gives you access to the different...