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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

Making it rain and snow


The fact that we can add rain and snow, as easy as reading this sentence, really proves that Lumion is a powerful and versatile application. Adding rain or snow is something that we can easily achieve by adding two effects in the Photo or Movie mode.

Getting ready

We don't need anything special for this tutorial, just make sure that you have some 3D models in the scene to see how the snow works with the environment.

How to do it…

Let's start by adding rain with the following steps:

  1. Click on the New effect button, and from the Weather tab, select the Rain effect.

  2. Once you select this effect, your scene changes dramatically into a rainy day.

  3. Correct the Drop distortion value if the rain in your project looks strange.

  4. Adjust the Cloudy setting to quickly darken the sky and increase the humidity in the air.

  5. The Wind X and Wind Y settings let you change the direction of the rain.

The next in line is the Snow effect and the following steps show how it works:

  1. From the Weather tab,...