Chapter 7. Creating Realistic Visualizations
Throughout this book we have mentioned several times that Lumion is not a photo-realistic application, and in order to deliver a real-time performance, some corners need to be cut and this can have an impact on the quality. Are we constrained by lack of quality after so much work? In the last chapter, we saw how we can use the Global illumination effect to substantially improve the lighting in the scene, and although there are some limitations of what we can get with Lumion, in reality, we have several elements that can be used to drastically improve the quality and realism of our project.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Special effects—fire, smoke, and fog
- Applying and controlling the special effects
- The differences between the Photo and Movie modes
- Using the Sun Study for accurate lighting
- Tweaking shadows
- Creating realistic reflections
- Improving realism with camera effects
- Rendering still images
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