Lumion - Rendering and Landscaping

Duration: 20 hours

Teaching Methodology: Hands on

OVERVIEW

This Lumion course teaches you to render 3DS Max, Revit, and AutoCAD scenes quickly and to add landscaping. It produces impressive, high-quality videos with remarkable speed and is extremely easy to master.

Add trees, clouds, artistic effects, people, and materials. Then, convert your CAD 3D model into a unique 3D image or 3D flythrough movie, so that you can share, sell and inspire.

OBJECTIVES

In this course, you will learn how to start Lumion projects, add environment, add cameras, set global and direct illuminations, populate your scenes with people, trees, cars, and other elements, create terrains, and produce animations.

AUDIENCE

Architects
Landscape Architects
Interior Architects
Civil engineers with an interest in 3D visualization
Students interested in 3D visualization

PREREQUISITES

None.

COURSE CONTENTS

01 - Getting Ready for Lumion 3D

Controlling the camera
Lumion's hotkeys
Using the Settings window
Modeling for Lumion
Additional models
Importance of materials
Solving common problems
Exporting 3D models
Using the COLLADA format
Exporting animations

02 - Creating a Project in Lumion

Creating a scene
Using the nine presets
Sculpting the terrain
Creating and using a height map
Configuring the Editor quality
Why use layers?

03 - Importing 3D Models

Importing 3D models
Adding Lumion content
Placing and reallocating 3D models
Hotkeys
Accurate placing
Updating a 3D model with new geometry
Replacing 3D models
Common problems (troubleshooting)
ocking a 3D model

04 - Applying and Creating Materials

Available materials in Lumion
Adding materials
Special materials
Importing materials
Tweaking imported materials
The Glass special features
Creating materials in Lumion
Using the Standard material
Creating bump maps
Working with materials
Organizing materials
Saving materials
Copying and pasting materials
How to solve flickering

05 - Creating Your 3D World

The 3D models available
Placing content
Working with multiple objects
Controlling the models
Selecting different objects
Editing models' properties
Tweaking the grass
Scattering elements

06 - Lighting in Lumion

The Lumion weather system
Lumion lights
Interior illumination
Tweaking spotlights
Improving lighting
Best practices with spotlights
Improving reflections

07 - Creating Realistic Visualizations

Special effects—fire, smoke, and fog
Applying and controlling the special effects
The differences between the Photo and Movie modes
Using the Sun Study for accurate lighting
Tweaking shadows
Creating realistic reflections
Improving realism with camera effects
Rendering still images

08 - Non-photorealistic Visualizations with Lumion

Non-photorealistic Render
Using NPR visualizations
Creating NPR using Lumion
Artistic effects—what is available
Controlling Lumion's effects
Exploring artistic effects
Creating conceptual visualizations
The Painting and Watercolor effects
The Sketch effect
Creating technical illustrations with the Manga and Cartoon effects
Correcting perspectives in Lumion
The Sharpness effect

09 - Animation Techniques

Lumion animation—a quick overview
Planning your movie
Working with cameras
Creating a camera path
Composition and how to use it
Editing clips
Changing the length of clips
Camera-filming techniques
Deleting and controlling multiple clips
Animating effects and layers
Using layers to control objects

10 - Advanced Features

Detailed Import and Output Formats
Model Library
High Quality Animated Characters
3D Sound Effects
Material Library
Environment & Weather
Scene Editor
20 Scene Layers
Movie Editor
Animation
Movie Effects
Special Effects