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Mastering Lumion 3D

You're reading from   Mastering Lumion 3D Master the art of creating real-time 3D architectural visualizations using Lumion 3D

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783552030
Length 286 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ciro Cardoso Ciro Cardoso
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Ready for Lumion 3D FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating a Project in Lumion 3. Importing 3D Models 4. Applying and Creating Materials 5. Creating Your 3D World 6. Lighting in Lumion 7. Creating Realistic Visualizations 8. Non-photorealistic Visualizations with Lumion 9. Animation Techniques 10. Creating Walk-through Visualizations Index

Workflow optimization (best practices)

There are a few things that we can do in order to improve the way Lumion works. This is something directly connected to the workstation we have or, in other words, if our workstation or system is powerful enough, perhaps we will never feel the need to follow some of the suggestions mentioned here.

Configuring Editor Quality

Editor Quality is something we mentioned briefly in Chapter 1, Getting Ready for Lumion 3D. So, if you had the opportunity to read the Quick overview section, you may want to jump to the next section called Using Lumion's layers.

To configure the quality we see while working on the Build, Photo, and Movie mode, we need to open the Settings menu. As mentioned in this chapter, the Settings button is found on the right-hand side. When we click on the button, the Settings menu appears, and for this section, we will focus our attention on just a few settings, as shown in the following screenshot:

Configuring Editor Quality

Remember that we can use our own textures...

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