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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

Configuring the properties of light

The control we have over the lights placed in our scene is amplified and taken to the next level with the use of the Edit properties menu. Lumion's light that offers more control is the spotlight, and this recipe is going to cover how we can tweak this light, use some techniques to improve our workflow, and improve the efficiency when lighting interior scenes.

Getting ready

If you are following the previous recipes, you should have now a nighttime scene with some spotlights and light fill placed. We are going to use these lights to explain how we can configure the light properties.

How to do it…

To configure the light properties, perform the following steps:

  1. To configure the properties of a spotlight or any other light, you need to ensure that the Objects menu is open and the Lights and special objects button selected.
  2. After following the previous step, locate and select the Edit properties button, which is shown in the following screenshot:
    How to do it…
  3. The...
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