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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

Tweaking the Global Illumination effect

When working with interior scenes, we may have a good proportion of light that comes from the windows in the room or other areas in the building; however, the light is not reflected back to the ceiling and other elements in the scene. Lumion has an effect that can help us add more light to our scene without using additional lights. Let's see how we can use the Global Illumination effect with interior renders.

Getting ready

To follow this recipe, we need an interior scene with some windows and at least one spotlight. For the first half of the recipe, we will use a daytime scene and then change it to a nighttime scene. We are going to use the Photo mode to exemplify the effects, but the same principles and effects can be used with the Movie mode.

How to do it…

To control and bring more light to the interior scene, perform the following steps:

  1. Open the Photo mode and place the camera in a good position to see the full extent of your scene.
  2. Click...
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