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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

Placing multiple 3D models

A project needs life, but placing dozens of models one by one is a massive task. Lumion helps us to populate our 3D world by providing the option to place more than one copy at a time. By means of a shortcut, we can place 10 copies of a 3D model.

Getting ready

Before you begin, you need to have Lumion open and the right layer selected to place the 3D model.

How to do it…

To place 10 copies of a 3D model, perform the following steps:

  1. Select the 3D model you want to place either from the Lumion library or a 3D model you already imported.
  2. Hold the Ctrl key and click with the left mouse button to place 10 scattered copies of the 3D model, as you can see in the following screenshot:
    How to do it…
  3. Click again on any other point of your 3D project if you want to add 10 more copies.

There's more…

This is a feature that I use with a few 3D models and in specific situations. Why? As you can see in the preceding screenshot, it is true that we can place 10 copies of a 3D model...

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