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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

Simple animations with the Move effect


The video you produce depends on what the client wants but, usually, the movie you create will be something simple with some tracking shots of a few seconds.

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It will make your life easier if you create short clips instead of having massive clips. It's a more flexible approach and makes editing the movie a lot easier.

What are a few things you need to animate? People walking or swimming and definitely some cars moving around. When you need to animate a 3D model going from point A to point B in a straight line, the best tool to use is the Move effect. How does it work and what is the best way to use this effect? The principle behind the Move effect is very simple, as you can see from the following screenshot:

After adding this effect to the clip in question, you need to specify where the start and end positions are. However, there are a few things to keep in mind:

  • You have to use the Move effect to animate all the objects in the scene. There isn't any...

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