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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

Organizing materials


After producing some projects with Lumion, we will get to a point where some materials are the same as those we used previously in another project. However, is there any possibility to create our material library in Lumion? It is not possible to create a library inside Lumion, but we can save the material and then later use it for another project. Keep in mind that this will only work with Standard materials and not the native Lumion materials.

When we add a Standard material to the 3D model, notice that there is a new button that is not visible with the other materials:

This menu gives us the following three buttons initially:

  • Copy: This allows us to copy one material to another inside the scene. When we click on this button, a new one appears called Paste.

  • Save material: Press this button to save a Lumion material file (extension .lmf).

  • Load material: This will load the Lumion material file that you saved previously.

There is another way to save the materials, but this...