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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

Modifying the sun's settings

Setting up the Sun's direction and height is one of the simplest tasks in Lumion; however, by only using the Weather menu, we can start feeling that there is a lack of control over these settings. Fear not though! Lumion offers an effect that provides assistance to control the Sun in a way that can make all the difference when producing a video. This recipe will help you comprehend not only how you can modify the settings for the Sun, but will also provide you with a practical example of how you can apply this recipe in any project.

Getting ready

For this tutorial, we need to move from the Build mode to the Movie mode, and it is essential that you create a small clip to see the effect.

How to do it…

To modify the Sun's settings, perform the following steps:

  1. On the right-hand side of the screen, click on the Movie mode button.
  2. This will open the movie interface that initially looks like the following screenshot:
    How to do it…
  3. If your movie interface is empty...
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