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Lumion 3D Cookbook

You're reading from   Lumion 3D Cookbook Revolutionize your Lumion skills with over 100 recipes to create stunning architectural visualizations.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783550937
Length 258 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ciro Cardoso Ciro Cardoso
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Importing in Lumion FREE CHAPTER 2. Placing the Content 3. Manipulating and Controlling 3D Models 4. Constructing Your World 5. Controlling the Weather 6. Working with Lumion Materials 7. Special Features 8. Getting Realism with Camera Effects 9. Non-photorealistic Effects 10. Bringing Your World to Life 11. Creating Videos 12. Rendering 13. Lighting Index

Configuring the global illumination


So far, we have been looking at how we can use the Weather menu to create an enjoyable environment for our exterior scenes. Lumion is also capable of producing beautiful interior scenes, but we need to work a little bit with the interior illumination before we can produce something that is presentable and eye-catching. For interior scenes, we can use the Global Illumination effect to improve the illumination that is either provided by the Sun or some artificial source of illumination. Let's see how we can improve the interior look and illumination using Global Illumination.

Getting ready

Before you begin, move the camera to the interior of your building to check and tweak the settings. If you just want to test this effect, use one of the examples that you can find in the Examples tab.

How to do it…

To improve the illumination of an interior scene, perform the following steps:

  1. Click on the New effect button.

  2. From the World tab, select the Global Illumination...

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