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Lumion3D Best Practices

You're reading from   Lumion3D Best Practices Explore the best practices to build architectural visualizations efficiently in Lumion 3D

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783550852
Length 166 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ciro Cardoso Ciro Cardoso
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Preface 1. Getting Ready with Lumion 3D 2. Importing and Handling 3D Models FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating an Interior Scene with Lumion 4. Creating an Exterior Scene with Lumion 5. Working with Physically Based Materials 6. Animation Techniques in Lumion 7. Producing a Still Image with Lumion 8. Producing a Movie with Lumion 9. Exporting and Post Production Index

A quick overview of Lumion's materials


Lumion always had a good library of materials to assign to your 3D model, and in Chapter 3, Creating an Interior Scene with Lumion, you learned that Lumion introduced the Physically-based rendering materials in more recent versions. Although we touched upon this subject in Chapter 3, Creating an Interior Scene with Lumion, we are going to have a better look at what Physically-Based Rendering (PBR) materials really mean for us as artists.

The reality is that PBR is more of a concept than a set of rules, and each render engine will implement slightly differently. The good news for us as users is that these materials follow realistic shading and lighting systems to accurately represent real-world materials.

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