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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

Adding fumes and vapors


In addition to the solid and liquid elements in Lumion, we can find elements that we could label as non-solid. Lumion has a special section for these elements, opening with the smoke, passing all the way through dust, and then finishing with fog and water vapor. How we can place these elements in our project and a realistic application of some of them is what this recipe is going to teach you.

Getting ready

Possibly, the best way to become familiarized with these elements is by using a simple scene where we can run a smooth simulation without overcharging Lumion.

How to do it…

To add smoke to your project, perform the following steps:

  1. From the left-hand side of the screen, select the Objects menu.

  2. Click on the Effects button to access these special effects.

  3. On top of the Place button, click on the thumbnail called Change object to access the Lumion library.

  4. Once inside the Effects Library, start by selecting the Smoke tab.

  5. From this tab, you can choose from 20 types of smoke...

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