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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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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

Enriching the movie using sound


While working on a project, you probably would have noticed a button in the Objects toolbar called Sounds, as shown in the following screenshot:

What we have here is almost like a hidden treasure, and once you open the Sound library, you will understand why. Place the button over any thumbnail and appreciate the hard work of Lumion's team for producing these accurate and balanced sounds.

The process is very simple like almost everything else in Lumion. We select a sound and then place the sound close to the area where it is needed. You can see in the previous screenshot that the sound was placed near an area with people. After this, we have an icon representing the sound, but to control it, open Sound Properties. With any sound, we always have two circles:

  • The yellow circle: This represents an area where the sound can be heard loud and clear, and it is controlled using the Min distance setting.

  • The green circle: This represents the maximum distance till where...

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