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Mastering Lumion 3D

You're reading from   Mastering Lumion 3D Master the art of creating real-time 3D architectural visualizations using Lumion 3D

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783552030
Length 286 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ciro Cardoso Ciro Cardoso
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Preface 1. Getting Ready for Lumion 3D FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating a Project in Lumion 3. Importing 3D Models 4. Applying and Creating Materials 5. Creating Your 3D World 6. Lighting in Lumion 7. Creating Realistic Visualizations 8. Non-photorealistic Visualizations with Lumion 9. Animation Techniques 10. Creating Walk-through Visualizations Index

Project planning

While preparing the scene, there are a small number of aspects that need to be considered. Although variety is essential to add life to any scene, there is a difference between variety and pandemonium. We need to fight the temptation to start placing everything that is available in the Lumion's libraries. For example, there is no sense in placing European trees along with African trees or using a certain type of car that 'isn't correct for the type of project, just to mention a few aspects.

Usually, along with the CAD plans and depending on the size of the project, we have a landscape plan that shows where trees and other elements (if any) will be planted, as shown in the following screenshot:

Project planning

How can we translate this information from the CAD plan to Lumion? We will not have problems with the CAD plan shown previously because there isn't much information. However, with more complex projects we may need help and one easy way is by using a dummy object...

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