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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

Selecting different categories


While working with selections in Lumion, every time we make a selection and transform the 3D model, we need to choose the correct category. There are particular occasions when we need to select and manipulate 3D models that belong to different categories. This recipe is going to show you a small trick to select 3D models from different categories in one go. Let's see how we can do that.

Getting ready

Before you start, make sure that the 3D models you want to move are not locked or hidden.

How to do it…

To select different categories, you just need to perform the following steps:

  1. Open the Objects menu and pick a category to start selecting the 3D models.

  2. Press and hold the Ctrl key and with the left mouse button and drag to draw a rectangle around the 3D models.

  3. Select another category and hold the Ctrl key, but instead of dragging the mouse to draw a selection rectangle, you need to select each individual 3D model, as you can see in the following screenshot:

  4. After...

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