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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

Transforming and selecting any 3D model


Initially, we may find Lumion very restrictive in the way it works with the content placed in our project because we need to select the correct category every time we want to work with a 3D model. However, we can bypass these restrictions by using the option to select and move any 3D model in our world without selecting a category. Let's see how we can do that.

Getting ready

To apply this recipe, check whether you don't have any 3D models locked, and keep in mind that if you are working with an imported model, you need to have the Import menu selected.

How to do it…

To select and transform any 3D model, perform the following steps:

  1. Press the F12 key, and you will see that the small dots that are used to select the 3D models disappear.

  2. To select any 3D model, you just need to click on the 3D model with the left mouse button.

  3. The following screenshot shows that even if you are in the People and Animals category, we can select a 3D model from the Outdoor category...

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