Lumion Essential Training

Learn how to create beautiful renders, videos, and panoramas with Lumion, the powerful architectural visualization tool.

Introduction

• Create visualizations using Lumion
• Using the exercise files

1. Lumion Basics

• Open and close
• Review the Start screen
• Benchmarking
• Settings menu
• New projects
• Loading project
• Controlling the camera
• Selecting items
• Importing models
• Reload imported content
• Saving a project
• Creating a camera path
• Objects
• Exporting from Revit

2. Landscape

• Creating new terrain
• Adjusting terrain options
• Painting on terrain
• Adding water
• Adding an ocean
• Adding grass
• Adding trees
• Modifying trees
• Additional properties
• Adding multiple trees
• Weather options
• Importing architecture

3. Materials

• Assigning interior materials
• Assigning exterior materials, part 1
• Assigning exterior materials, part 2

4. Photo Effects

• Setting sun height and direction
• Sun effect: Brightness and size
• Fog effect
• Autumn generator
• Falling leaves
• Precipitation effect
• Controlling clouds

5. Objects

• Adding cars
• Adding people
• Adding object to favorites
• Layers
• Mass placement
• Move, rotate, and scale
• Modifying multiple items
• Duplicating items
• Deleting items
• Selecting objects by layer
• Selecting similar items
• Randomizing item position
• Locking item positions

6. Lighting

• Adding an area light
• Adding a line light
• Adding a spotlight
• Omni Light
• Spotlight night activation
• Targeting lights

7. Movie Effects

• Creating a movie, part 1
• Creating a movie, part 2: Weather effects
• Sun Study effect
• Style
• Effects
• Animation
• Rendering still images
• Rendering a movie clip
• Rendering a movie
• Finished product

Conclusion

• Next steps