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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

Adding water in Lumion


About 70 percent of the earth's surface is covered by water, and Lumion has some fantastic tools to create beautiful and realistic water surfaces. This recipe can be divided into two parts because we are going to see how we can apply a body of water directly and also use the water material.

Getting ready

If you want to apply the water material to your scene, it is essential that you create a surface and apply a unique material before you export the 3D model to be used in Lumion.

How to do it…

First, let's start by adding a water body to the project with the following steps:

  1. Select the Landscape menu.

  2. Click on the Water submenu and the menu appears, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. You can change the look of the water using the Type button.

  4. Select the Place object button to place this body of water.

  5. This will create a square that we can control using the icons on each corner to change the size and height.

  6. You can change the look of the water by selecting another type of...