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Mastering Lumion 3D

By : Ciro Cardoso
Book Image

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

Interior lighting with Lumion's lights


Lumion is an application aimed more toward exterior visualizations, and if you check the model's library, it is easy to understand why. However, with each new Lumion version, new tools appear to create better interior renders, and with the real-time technology, the preview we get is very accurate.

The Lights and special objects library found under the Objects menu has all the tools we need to start improving the interior illumination, and that is what we will use for the next pages.

Spotlight, omni light, and fill light

When we open Lights And Utilities Library, there are at least two tabs related to lighting. The initial one, called Light, is probably what we will use most of the time because here we can find the most important lights such as the spotlight and fill light. What about the omni light on the second tab? Well, if you create a night scene and place an omni light and a fill light, you can easily see that the only difference is the intensity...