Lumion Essential Training

Course details

Now any architect can create beautiful renders quickly. With Lumion, you work in real time. Production-quality images can be saved to disk in seconds. Lumion can also produce videos and animated sequences from the same project file. In this course, instructor Brian Myers covers the essentials of this powerful visualization tool. Learn how to import CAD models, add cameras, and build out a beautiful environment, with different types of virtual weather and terrain. Brian shows how to add water features and foliage, as well as assign and adjust materials to help your renders look more realistic. Plus, learn how to work with the Build Mode context menu to replace, move, duplicate, and randomize positioning of items—without affecting any of the other objects or settings in your render. Brian closes the course by showing how to render video and still images with the same steps you can use in your own Lumion projects.

Learning objectives
Controlling the camera
Importing models
Creating camera paths
Configuring the environment
Building a realistic landscape
Lighting
Adjusting materials
Using build mode
Adding effects
Rendering videos and still photos
Creating panoramas

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Create visualizations using Lumion
02 - Using the exercise files

1. Lumion Basics

03 - Open and close
04 - Review the Start screen
05 - Benchmarking
06 - Settings menu
07 - New projects
08 - Loading project
09 - Controlling the camera
10 - Selecting items
11 - Importing models
12 - Reload imported content
13 - Saving a project
14 - Creating a camera path
15 - Objects
16 - Exporting from Revit

2. Landscape

17 - Creating new terrain
18 - Adjusting terrain options
19 - Painting on terrain
20 - Adding water
21 - Adding an ocean
22 - Adding grass
23 - Adding trees
24 - Modifying trees
25 - Additional properties
26 - Adding multiple trees
27 - Weather options
28 - Importing architecture

3. Materials

29 - Assigning interior materials
30 - Assigning exterior materials, part 1
31 - Assigning exterior materials, part 2

4. Photo Effects

32 - Setting sun height and direction
33 - Sun effect - Brightness and size
34 - Fog effect
35 - Autumn generator
36 - Falling leaves
37 - Precipitation effect
38 - Controlling clouds

5. Objects

39 - Adding cars
40 - Adding people
41 - Adding object to favorites
42 - Layers
43 - Mass placement
44 - Move, rotate, and scale
45 - Modifying multiple items
46 - Duplicating items
47 - Deleting items
48 - Selecting objects by layer
49 - Selecting similar items
50 - Randomizing item position
51 - Locking item positions

6. Lighting

52 - Adding an area light
53 - Adding a line light
54 - Adding a spotlight
55 - Omni Light
56 - Spotlight night activation
57 - Targeting lights

7. Movie Effects

58 - Creating a movie, part 1
59 - Creating a movie, part 2 - Weather effects
60 - Sun Study effect
61 - Style
62 - Effects
63 - Animation
64 - Rendering still images
65 - Rendering a movie clip
66 - Rendering a movie
67 - Finished product

Conclusion

68 - Next steps