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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

Using special formats


Lumion gives us the opportunity to export different render passes. Render passes or render elements are the raw elements produced by the rendering engine that are used together to create the final image. These special formats can be extracted and combined with software that supports composition using layers. The reason why we do this is to get much greater control and tweak the look of the final image. Let's see how we can export these render passes and some of their practical applications.

Getting ready

Before we start, it is good to identify which render passes we can obtain from Lumion. We can export six render passes: Depthmap, Normalmap, SpecularReflection map, Lighting map, Sky alpha map, and Material ID.

How to do it…

To export the aforementioned render passes from Lumion, perform the following steps:

  1. Go to the Movie mode and click on the Save movie button.

  2. A new window will open and in order to export the render passes, you can either select the Images tab if you...

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