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Lumion3D Best Practices

You're reading from   Lumion3D Best Practices Explore the best practices to build architectural visualizations efficiently in Lumion 3D

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783550852
Length 166 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ciro Cardoso Ciro Cardoso
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Preface 1. Getting Ready with Lumion 3D 2. Importing and Handling 3D Models FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating an Interior Scene with Lumion 4. Creating an Exterior Scene with Lumion 5. Working with Physically Based Materials 6. Animation Techniques in Lumion 7. Producing a Still Image with Lumion 8. Producing a Movie with Lumion 9. Exporting and Post Production Index

The different file formats to export from Lumion


Starting with the Photo mode, technically you are constrained to four sizes, as shown in the following screenshot:

What if you need a different image size? The only option is to render a bigger image and then resize it.

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Resizing the image will also contribute to creating a sharper image.

The only downside is that if you want to do some color correction and other adjustments, you only can export an 8 bit image (which doesn't give you much room for tweaking colors) and use these formats:

  • Joint Photographic Experts Group: *.jpg

  • Bitmap: *.bmp

  • DirectDraw Surface: *.dds

  • Portable Network Graphics: *.png

  • Truevision Graphics Adapter: *.tga

As mentioned before, this is one option to export a still image and although the Photo mode provides a friendly interface, there is a better option that makes all the processes easier.

Using the Movie mode to export still images

The question is: is it possible for you to use the Movie mode to export still images...

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