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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

Changing the landscape


When we start a new project in Lumion, we can start using nine different presets. They sort of work as a shortcut to help us get the appearance we want for our project. Most of the time, we may use the Grass preset, but that doesn't mean we get stuck with the landscape presented. In the previous recipes, we saw how we can sculpt the terrain, but we can do more than that in Lumion. Let's have a look and see how we can completely change the aspect of the landscape.

Getting ready

For this tutorial, there is nothing special you need. Save the project just in case you need to reverse the changes.

How to do it…

  1. On the left-hand side of the screen, select the Landscape menu and click on the Terrain submenu button.

  2. If your terrain is a plane, you may not notice all the variations; therefore, if you want to see how the landscape is affected, click on the Make large mountain option.

  3. On the right-hand side of the Terrain submenu is the Choose Landscape button; it is the one with a...

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