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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

Modifying and animating the clouds


An element that can bring an extra touch to the final movie are the clouds. This is a component that does not always cross our mind when trying to attain a good-looking and realistic movie. Lumion provides us with a lot of freedom not only to change the appearance of the clouds, but also to animate and even create volume clouds to bring this fine-tuning to a different dimension. In this recipe, we are going to look into three different effects and how we can apply them to our project.

Getting ready

Before you begin, you need a simple animation to see these effects in action. If necessary, create a small clip with a few seconds.

How to do it…

Let's start with the Cloud effect; to use this effect, perform the following steps:

  1. Click on the New effect button.

  2. Choose the Weather tab and select the Cloud effect.

  3. The following screenshot shows the settings that are available with this effect:

  4. Some of the settings are self-explanatory, such as the Position, Cloud Speed...