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Lumion3D Best Practices

Lumion3D Best Practices

By : Ciro Cardoso
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Lumion3D Best Practices

Lumion3D Best Practices

By: Ciro Cardoso
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Overview of this book

This book is designed for advanced Lumion users who wish to apply these techniques to their own projects. The reader should be familiar with modeling knowledge and have at least a basic knowledge of a graphics editing program, such as Photoshop or Gimp.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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1. Getting Ready with Lumion 3D
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1. Getting Ready with Lumion 3D
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An introduction to Lumion for beginners
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Keep your project organized!
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The importance of materials
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A quick overview of Lumion
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Summary
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2. Importing and Handling 3D Models
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2. Importing and Handling 3D Models
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Importing 3D models
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Common problems and their solutions
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How to place 3D models in Lumion
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Controlling the 3D models
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Using filters to select different categories
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Handling and importing large scenes
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Updating 3D models in Lumion
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Summary
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3. Creating an Interior Scene with Lumion
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3. Creating an Interior Scene with Lumion
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Checking and refining the 3D model
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A quick overview – Lumion's native 3D models
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Populating the scene with 3D models
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A quick overview – Lumion's physically based materials
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Working with lights for interior scenes
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Summary
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4. Creating an Exterior Scene with Lumion
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4. Creating an Exterior Scene with Lumion
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Planning your scene
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The Import, Export, and Merge scene features
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Quick overview – the Landscape menu
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Landscape types
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Working with imported terrains
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Scattering elements with the Grass menu
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Choosing the landscape with the Paint menu
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5. Working with Physically Based Materials
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5. Working with Physically Based Materials
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Materials, and why they are essential
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A quick overview of Lumion's materials
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Working with materials in Lumion – three options
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Custom materials for Lumion
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Creating seamless textures
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Creating reflection and glossiness maps
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Summary
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6. Animation Techniques in Lumion
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6. Animation Techniques in Lumion
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Planning your scene
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A quick overview of Lumion's Movie mode
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How to import animations
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Controlling imported animations
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Simple animations with the Move effect
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Curved paths with the Advanced move effect
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Making good use of the Mass move effect
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7. Producing a Still Image with Lumion
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7. Producing a Still Image with Lumion
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A quick overview–the Photo mode
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Photo and movie effects
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8. Producing a Movie with Lumion
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8. Producing a Movie with Lumion
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A quick overview – the Movie mode
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Composition–a useful tool
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Adding realism with Lumion's effects
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Extra detail with sound effects
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Creating a presentation with Titles
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9. Exporting and Post Production
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9. Exporting and Post Production
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Optimizing before rendering
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The different file formats to export from Lumion
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Rendering using the Movie mode
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What is a render pass?
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Practical ways to use the render passes
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Using Lumion Viewer to present a project
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Index
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Index

Chapter 2. Importing and Handling 3D Models

The complete collection of Lumion's features and their usability would be useless if we didn't have the capability to import our 3D models in Lumion. In the previous chapter under the section What is necessary to work with Lumion, we provided a list of all the file formats that Lumion can recognize and read. So, not only can Lumion import a wide variety of file formats, but it also has a good system to reload 3D models without losing the information attached to them, and by information we mean the materials assigned to the 3D models and their location. This is an important and crucial step in the entire workflow pipeline so let's have a look at what you are going to learn in this chapter:

  • How to import 3D models
  • Importing directly from SketchUp
  • Importing 3d models from 3ds Max or another application using COLLADA or FBX
  • Importing animations to Lumion
  • Common problems and how to solve them
  • Beginners' mistakes
  • How to place...
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