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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

Creating a realistic glass


Glass is essential in any project we work. From the glass in a complex window to a simple cup made of glass, this material has a deep impact on a still image and even more on a movie, helping us capture the light and reflections of the environment. Lumion has a glass material that can be used to create some of these materials. Let's see how we can manipulate the Glass material to get a more realistic look.

Getting ready

To begin with this recipe, you need some surfaces to apply this Glass material and some textures to use as an example.

How to do it…

To apply a glass to your scene, perform the following steps:

  1. From the left-hand side of the screen, select the third menu, the Import menu.

  2. Select the Edit materials button and click on the Add material button.

  3. From the Custom library, select the Glass material that you can find next to the Invisible material.

  4. As soon as you have this material, the surface selected is transformed to a transparent and almost invisible surface...

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