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Lumion3D Best Practices

By : Ciro Cardoso

Lumion3D Best Practices

By: Ciro Cardoso

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.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Getting Ready with Lumion 3D

1. Getting Ready with Lumion 3D

An introduction to Lumion for beginners

Keep your project organized!

The importance of materials

A quick overview of Lumion

Summary

2. Importing and Handling 3D Models

2. Importing and Handling 3D Models

Importing 3D models

Common problems and their solutions

How to place 3D models in Lumion

Controlling the 3D models

Using filters to select different categories

Handling and importing large scenes

Updating 3D models in Lumion

Summary

3. Creating an Interior Scene with Lumion

3. Creating an Interior Scene with Lumion

Checking and refining the 3D model

A quick overview – Lumion's native 3D models

Populating the scene with 3D models

A quick overview – Lumion's physically based materials

Working with lights for interior scenes

Summary

4. Creating an Exterior Scene with Lumion

4. Creating an Exterior Scene with Lumion

Planning your scene

The Import, Export, and Merge scene features

Quick overview – the Landscape menu

Landscape types

Working with imported terrains

Scattering elements with the Grass menu

Choosing the landscape with the Paint menu

Summary

5. Working with Physically Based Materials

5. Working with Physically Based Materials

Materials, and why they are essential

A quick overview of Lumion's materials

Working with materials in Lumion – three options

Custom materials for Lumion

Creating seamless textures

Creating reflection and glossiness maps

Summary

6. Animation Techniques in Lumion

6. Animation Techniques in Lumion

Planning your scene

A quick overview of Lumion's Movie mode

How to import animations

Controlling imported animations

Simple animations with the Move effect

Curved paths with the Advanced move effect

Making good use of the Mass move effect

Summary

7. Producing a Still Image with Lumion

7. Producing a Still Image with Lumion

A quick overview–the Photo mode

Photo and movie effects

Summary

8. Producing a Movie with Lumion

8. Producing a Movie with Lumion

A quick overview – the Movie mode

Composition–a useful tool

Adding realism with Lumion's effects

Extra detail with sound effects

Creating a presentation with Titles

Summary

9. Exporting and Post Production

9. Exporting and Post Production

Optimizing before rendering

The different file formats to export from Lumion

Rendering using the Movie mode

What is a render pass?

Practical ways to use the render passes

Using Lumion Viewer to present a project

Summary

Index

Index

Creating seamless textures

A seamless texture is nothing out of this world. In simple terms, a seamless texture is an image that can be placed side-by-side with itself without creating a noticeable seam between the two copies. They are not that difficult to create. The trick is making them less repetitive so that when you apply them on a big area, there isn't any noticeable pattern.

Note

If you don't want to lose time with this, Cgtextures.com is a good place to go because they provide tiled or seamless textures.

Again, we will have to stick with Photoshop to create a seamless texture, since we cannot cover here all of the image editor applications available.

Note

If you are not too concerned about getting perfect textures, you may want to have a look at the free seamless textures generator available at http://www.the-orange-box.com/.

Start by creating a square texture and keep in mind the image size. After that, select the Offset tool and, in both the Horizontal and Vertical text box, insert...

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