This chapter provided a solid foundation for producing exterior scenes. You learned how to successfully work with the Landscape menu. You also learned that working with complex scenes can be challenging but that this can be tackled by using the Merge scene functionality, which allows you to work with references in Lumion. You learned that the Landscape menu is not simply a menu where you can create an ocean or a river. It can be very powerful by using heightmaps along with four brushes, which let you sculpt the terrain to your needs. Further, you can also use external terrains and blend them neatly with Lumion's terrain, by using the Landscape material. Finally, you saw how to use the Grass menu to create a complex lawn and how to use the Paint menu not only to control the grass in the landscape but also to tweak the look of your terrain.

In the next chapter, you will learn some techniques to create materials that have a big impact on the level of realism. We will have a closer look...