LUMION 6 quickstart guide

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Title: LUMION 6: Quickstart Guide

Post by: Morten on October 01, 2015, 02:50:00 pm

QUICKSTART GUIDE FOR LUMION 6.0

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COMPATIBILITY

Please note that scenes and LS6 files saved in 6.x are NOT backwards compatible

with earlier versions. If you try to load scenes or imported model files made with

Lumion 1.x, 2.x, 3.x or 4.x, you will have to remove and reassign all materials

and Movie/Photo effects in Lumion 6.0.

MIGRATING SCENES FROM LUMION 4.5.1 AND 5.0

Lumion 5.3 and newer allow users to configure a different combination of effects

for all individual photos in Photo mode. The introduction of this feature in 5.3

means that older projects load with an empty list of effects in Photo mode.

(https://forum.lumion3d.com/index.php?

action=dlattach;topic=71241.0;attach=208611;image)

If you want to apply the same set of effects to photos in Lumion 6.0, simply save

the effects in Photo mode in Lumion 4.5.1 or Lumion 5.0 and load the effect file in

6.0 via the context menu button above the effect stack

HOW TO IMPORT A MODEL

Click on the green button in Place Mode to Import a new model.

Import model > Animation on/off button: This option allows you to import

move/rotate/scale animations via FBX/DAE, for example from AutoDesk® 3D

Studio Max® (FBX is the recommended format for animated models). It is not

possible to import vertex or bone animations (for example animated people from

TurboSquid or Axyz Design). See FAQ Topic: HOW DO I IMPORT ANIMATIONS?

HOW TO REIMPORT/RELOAD A MODEL

METHOD 1: Build mode > ReImport Model button

1. Select the small circular Object Icon of an imported model. The original location

and name of the imported file is displayed when the the mouse cursor overlaps the

small circular Object Icon.

2. Click on the ReImport Model button.

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METHOD 2: Build Mode > (ALT) + ReImport Model button > Hold down the

(ALT) key and click on this button to manually select the location/name of the file Use this method if the file name or location have changed

METHOD 3: Edit Materials > Context Menu > Material Properties button >

Reload model: This function allows you to ReImport/Reload the model that the

material you are editing belongs to

METHOD 4: Edit Materials > Context Menu > Material Properties button >

Reload model from a new file: If the name or location of an exported model file

(SketchUp, DAE, FBX etc) has changed, this option allows you to manually select the location/name of the file to Reimport/Reload

HOW TO CHANGE STANDARD MATERIAL PROPERTIES

Color Map slot: This texture slot allows you to add your own Color Map texture to

your model

With this slot, you can also use an MP4 video file (maximum 50MB per file). This allows you to have animated textures for things like a TV or video wall

Normal Map slot: This texture slot allows you to add your own Normal Map

texture to your model (Read this article

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_mapping) to learn what a Normal Map is). If your Normal Map contains an alpha channel, it will be used as a Gloss mask. This

mask type supports 8 bits, i.e. all 256 greyscale tones in the alpha channel

Create Normal Map: If you add a new Color Map texture to your material, Lumion will automatically create a Normal Map which adds depth and better definition to the material. You can click on this button to add a Normal Map manually.

Flip Normal Map direction: After Lumion has created a Normal Map based on your

Color Map, you can invert the depth direction by clicking on this button.

Colorization: Between 0 and 0.5, the Color Map is tinted more and more by the colour in the colour selector. Between 0.5 and 1, the texture of the Color Map is

replaced completely by the selected colour. To lighten/darken a surface, change

the Brightness slider (left vertical bar).

Gloss: Reflection blurriness vs sharpness. This can be combined with a Gloss mask

in the alpha channel of the Normal Map.

Reflectivity: Reflection amount. Between 1 and 2, the material switches to metallic reflections. For mirrorlike metallic reflections, you should use a metal material such as chrome

Relief: Material roughness (provided that you use a blue normalmap

(https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q=normalmap))

Scale: Material size. Set this to 0 if you want to use imported texture coordinates

instead of automatically applied texture coordinates. If you set the Scale slider to

0.5 in Lumion, and the surface is aligned with the world axes, each texture "tile" will cover an area of 1x1m in Lumion. Rectangular textures are always rescaled so

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X/Y/Z Offset: Adjust these sliders to change the position of the Color Map and Normal Map. This is only possible when the Scale slider value is above 0.

More button > Orientation module:

Heading/Pitch/Bank: Adjust these sliders to change the orientation of the

Color Map and Normal Map. This is only possible when the Scale slider value

is above 0

More button > Flicker Reduction module:

Flicker Reduction: You should only use this module if overlapping surfaces

flicker or disappear when you move the camera. Avoid extreme Flicker

Reduction values you should only adjust it a little bit, until the flickering

stops (The best method is of course to make sure that your surfaces are offset a bit in your 3D modelling application, so that the flickering is less likely to occur in the first place)

More button > Advanced module:

Emissive: A low value brightens the material and a high value makes it glow

Saturation: A low value desaturates the Color Map texture and a high values

makes it more saturated

Specular: This slider allows you to boost the specular highlights

Texture Alpha: The three buttons let you to specify whether the Alpha

channel in your Color Map is used as a Reflectivity mask, a Clip mask or as

an Emissive mask.

By default, Lumion will set the second button Color Map Alpha Clips Object 

to On

Please note that the Standard material only supports a 1bit Clip mask, so

each pixel is either fully transparent (black) or fully opaque (white). If your

Clip mask contains greyscale tones, they will be rounded up/down to pure

black/white. Reflectivity masks support 8 bits, i.e. all 256 greyscale tones in

the alpha channel

HOW TO USE THE NORMAL MAP GENERATOR

This feature automatically generates a Normal Map when you add a Color Map to a

Standard material. It is possible to flip the direction of the Normal Map by clicking

on the Flip Normal Map direction button which appears after you have chosen a new Color Map. You can also create a Normal Map if the imported model already

has a texture from outside Lumion

HOW TO SAVE/LOAD ALL MATERIALS OF A MODEL

Material Editor > Context Menu > Material set > Load/Save: You can save all the materials of a model to a file, and automatically apply those materials to

another imported model, provided that both models use the same material names

in your 3D modelling application. Please note that textures that were added to

models outside Lumion are not saved/loaded in Material Sets:

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You can also Save or Load an individual material to a surface or other surface using the Edit button.

HOW TO ENTER POSITION COORDINATES

Select Objects Mode > Select the Move Mode tab > Click on Move Object Icon >

Select Object (Click on the small circular object icon of the object). Enter Position values for X,Y,Z.

Select multiple objects to set same value.

HOW TO CHANGE PITCH AND BANK ROTATION VALUES

Select Objects mode > Select the Move mode tab > Click on Rotate Heading >

Click on the small circular object icon of the object you want to rotate with the sliders

Doubleclick on a slider to type in an angle between 180 to 180 degrees

Please note that the sliders will not appear when trees and plants are selected. This

is due to a technical limitation which prevents Lumion from changing the pitch and bank values of these object types

HOW TO WORK WITH SPOTLIGHTS

Cone Angle: This slider specifies how wide the beam of the light should be

Show light source: This On/Off button shows/hides the spotlight mesh

Night activation: All lights with the 'On' property switch on at the same time at sunset (which is ideal for streetlights for example). All lights with the 'Random'

property switch on at a random time around sunset

Optimize for: Choose the shadow types that should be used

Accuracy: The shadows are updated every frame (Slow!). Every time you

add a light with Accuracy turned on, the entire scene has to be rendered once

more. Add 10 lights and the scene has to be rendered 10 times more every frame. Each light uses a 1024x1024 pixel shadow texture

Speed: The shadow from the light uses a static 512x512 pixel texture which

is not updated (Fast, moderate memory usage)

Memory: The shadow from the light uses a static 128x128 pixel texture which is not updated (Fast, very low memory usage)

To reduce render times, we recommend that distant lights (e.g. street lights) in

your scene use either the Memory or the Speed option, so that the shadows are not

updated every frame. If your graphics card has enough memory, the best option is

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moving near the light (a car driving past a street light for example). Or if the light itself moves/rotates (stage lighting for concerts for example). Or if you need high resolution shadows in certain areas (typically closeups of interiors)

Target Light(s): Click on a surface that you would like the spotlight to point at

To preview shadows from spotlights in Build mode:

1) Press (F8) or select the spotlights in Build mode to temporarily turn on realtime

shadows

To preview shadows from spotlights in Movie/Photo mode:

1) Press (F8) or go to the Photo or Movie section.

2) Apply a Global Illumination effect (New effect > World tab > Global

Illumination).

3) Click on Preview spotlight GI and shadows in the effect panel.

4) If you want to view the shadows in Build mode, click on the Build with effects

button in the top left corner

HOW TO USE LAYERS

About Layers: Layers are useful for organising large projects. The Layer buttons in

Build mode allow you to show or hide models. You can also animate the visibility of

Layers in your clips with the Show Layer and Hide Layer effects.

(https://lumion3d.com/wpcontent/uploads/2013/02/Layers.jpg)

HOW TO AVOID SHADOW ARTIFACTS (BANDING,

FLICKERING, LIGHT LEAKAGE)

Shadows in Lumion are added on top of all surfaces with a small offset. The reason

an offset is needed is that the shadows will otherwise flicker (or display banding artifacts) when the shadows are very close to surfaces. It's challenging to get the offset right as the optimal offset varies from scene to scene, depending on the sun position and the camera position. For that reason, you sometimes have to add the

Shadow effect to your clip and experiment with the Shadow correction slider until

the artifacts are gone. If the offset is set too high, furniture (as an example) will appear to hover above the floor. In reality the furniture is not hovering of course, but the offset shadows give the illusion of it

HOW TO WORK WITH REFLECTIONS

There are three types of reflections in Lumion:

PLANAR REFLECTIONS (New effect > World tab > Reflection):

This Movie or Photo effect allows you to specify up to 10 reflection planes in your

scene. Any model surface which is coplanar with a given reflection plane in your

scene will have accurate reflections, provided that you have assigned a Standard,

Water , Glass material or Advanced Glass material to it. This is ideal for mirrors,

marble floors etc. You can also assign reflection planes to the builtin water planes

in Lumion

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which nearlycoplanar surfaces will be included in the reflection plane. The

tradeoff is accuracy but it's usually not noticeable. Please note that if you have some nearly coplanar surfaces that you want to assign a single reflection plane to, you need to assign the plane to the surface which is closest to the camera so to speak

You can adjust the blurriness of a Planar Reflection by adjusting the Gloss value of

the reflective material

Please note that the following objects and materials are not reflected due to

technical limitations:

 Ocean.

Native Lumion water planes

 Waterfall, Water and Glass materials.

 Special effects: Fountains, Smoke, Fire and Fog.

 Grass.

Every time you add 1 reflection plane, Lumion has to mirror all models & render the entire scene once more, and this can get slow very quickly. For that reason, try

to use as few reflection planes as possible:

SPEEDRAY(TM) REFLECTIONS (New effect > World > Reflection):

Add a Reflection Effect in Photo or Movie Mode. Click the On button for the

SpeedRay(TM) setting.

Materials that have Reflectivity and Gloss will reflect the local environment. This

creates a much more accurate and defined reflection on any surface This setting is

far less resourceintensive than Planar Reflections (via the Reflection effect) but more resourceintensive than Projected Reflections (see below). he reflection can

apply to any surface as well as planar surfaces.

Use the Gloss slider of materials to adjust the amount of blurriness in the

reflection

You do not need to add any planar surfaces to enable this reflection type to work, just include the effect and turn on the setting

Any surfaces selected for Planar Reflections (as above) will continue to be rendered

as fully Planar Reflections, even if this setting is On.

PROJECTED REFLECTIONS:

Projected reflections in Lumion rely on a single 360 degree panoramic reflection texture which is projected onto any reflective materials that are not using planar reflections (this includes the ocean in Lumion). The projected reflection method is only an approximation and will never provide as realistic reflections as the planar reflection effect above

In Build mode, the Reflection Control object is placed 100m above the Lumion

terrain in order to provide generic reflections of the sky and entire scene

However, when you render still images in Photo or Movie mode, the 360 degree

panoramic reflection texture is automatically rendered at the camera position When you render videos, the 360 degree panoramic reflection texture is rendered

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To preview the reflections before starting the rendering procedure, you need to press the Ukey

To disable these automated functions, you should insert the Reflection Control object into your scene in Build mode, and move it around manually in Movie mode via the Move or Advanced Move effects.

Add the Lights and Special Objects > Utilities > Reflection control object to your

scene to specify the position where the 360 degree panoramic reflection texture should be rendered at. Bear in mind that you can also animate this object with the

Move/Advanced Move effects in the Movie section.

HOW TO UPDATE THE SUN, SKY, LIGHTING, CLOUDS AND REFLECTIONS

(U): If you press the U key, the sun, sky, lighting, clouds and 360 degree reflection

texture will be updated. This is often necessary if you switch between

Build/Movie/Photo mode and the sun is in different positions.

If you keep the U key pressed in Photo/Movie mode, the Cloud effect will be

rendered in (almost) final render quality. This is useful if you want to see what the

clouds will look like while adjusting the cloud sliders. Bear in mind that the Volume

Clouds effect has to be rendered in 3 star quality to see what these clouds will look

like in final render quality

HOW TO CHANGE OBJECT COLOURS

Objects > Edit properties > Object Color allows you to change the colours of

many of the Transport, Indoor and Outdoor models, e.g. furniture and vehicles.

Note that you can also copypaste a colour from outside Lumion to any color

selection window in Lumion. Simply press CTRL + C to copy a highlighted

hexadecimal colour in text format, eg, "ff0000" (red), and press CTRL + V to paste this colour onto the solid bar on the right side of the color selection window

(https://lumion3d.com/wpcontent/uploads/2013/02/CopyColour.jpg)

HOW TO WORK WITH TERRAINS IN LUMION

There are two ways to work with terrains in Lumion:

1) Import your own model and tell Lumion to treat it like a terrain

2) Use the builtin native terrain functionality in Lumion

METHOD 1: IMPORTING YOUR OWN TERRAIN MODEL

Simply import your model in Lumion and mark it as a terrain

Context Menu > Click on the object icon of your imported model > Extra > Mark

as terrain > On

Then assign a Landscape material to it. This allows you paint on it just like the

"native" terrain in Lumion:

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Marking an imported model as a terrain also allows you to use the Eye Level

function in Movie mode. Please note that marking an imported model as a terrain

will require system memory due to additional collision data being stored, so please only use this function sparingly. When you move a lot of objects, performance may also deteriorate if you have marked a lot of complex imported models as terrains METHOD 2: THE NATIVE LUMION TERRAIN

The editable part of the terrain in Lumion occupies a 2000x2000m square. Beyond this, you will not be able to change the height or paint the landscape. The height of your terrain fades out to zero height over the last 50m of the edges of the

2000x2000m square in order to blend with the flat terrain outside the editable area

If you want to generate a terrain based on an imported greyscale heightmap the resolution should be 1024x1024 pixels. The innermost 1000x1000 pixels are used to cover the 2000x2000m square. The outermost 24x24 pixels are not used

Each pixel on the heightmap corresponds to 2x2m on the editable part of the

Lumion terrain

If you save a standard JPG file as a heightmap, 100% black equates to a terrain height of 0m and 100% white is equal to a terrain height of 200m. In other words, each greyscale step (from 0 to 255) is equal to 0.78125m

As for the height scale of imported heightmap textures, the RGB values normally

range from 0 to 1.0, but if you create a 32bit image in Photoshop (Image > Mode

> 32bits per channel), you can boost the "whiteness" (and thereby terrain height range) by up to x20. In other words:

RGB 0 to 1.0 in Photoshop = 0m to 200m in Lumion

Once you've created your heightmap, you'll need to save it as a 32bit DDS

heightmap in "32f" format using Nvidia's DDS plugin for Photoshop:

http://developer.nvidia.com/nvidiatexturetoolsadobephotoshop

(http://developer.nvidia.com/nvidiatexturetoolsadobephotoshop)

Make sure that you do not turn on 'Limit all textures to 512x512' in the Settings

menu as this will reduce the resolution of the heightmap from 1024x1024 to

512x512

MOVIE SECTION TIPS

Entire Movie versus Clips: You can apply a Movie effect to a single clip or to the 'Entire Movie'.

'Entire Movie' is selected by clicking on the large button in the lower left corner of the screen in Movie mode. If a new Movie effect is applied while 'Entire Movie' is

selected, this effect will affect all clips in your movie

The exception to this rule is if you have also applied the same Movie effect to one

of your clips. In this case, the Movie effect in the clip will override the Movie effect that is applied to 'Entire Movie'.

Doubleclicking on a clip thumbnail image: This allows you to edit the clip

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Create Movie Effect keyframes: The small button with the sine wave symbol to the right of the effect sliders allows you to add/delete keyframes:

Build with effects: This button in Photo/Movie mode allows you to preview effects

in Build mode:

Save Movie (or Create movie from clip) > Images tab > Frame range > Custom > Shots: This allows you to render each camera keyframe in a clip or in

the entire movie as still images

HOW TO CHANGE THE RENDER QUALITY

1star quality: Draft quality *

2star quality: Good quality **

3star quality: Production quality with 4 subsamples ***

4star quality: Production quality with 8 subsamples ***

5star quality: Production quality with 16 subsamples

* Global Illumination and the Volume Clouds effect will not look right. Sky, sun and

clouds will remain static

** Global Illumination and the Volume Clouds effect will not look right.

*** Fewer subsamples per frame will result in lower quality antialiasing,

shadows, depth of field, motion blur, leaves on trees/plants, hair/semitransparent parts on the 3D people and volume clouds. For optimal results, you should render final videos in 5star quality

Quality Rendering of Clouds, Moon and Stars:

The moon and stars will render at a lower quality, even if you use 3Star or more

for Output Quality. To set best rendering quality, turn on HQ Clouds in movie

render (slow).

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BACKGROUND RENDERING

Lumion always renders movies and image sequences in the background (which

correspond to the MP4 and Images tabs in Movie mode), so that you can check

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rendering a still image via Photo mode or the Single tab in Movie mode.

IMPORTANT: For the background rendering process to work when you render videos or image sequences, you should not switch to another program until the first image is done rendering. Also, while Lumion is rendering, please avoid moving/re

sizing/minimizing the Lumion window, do not bring up the Task Manager and do not click on the Show Desktop button in the lower right corner of Windows. Doing this

will cause Lumion to lose the connection to the graphics card and will reset the exposure in Lumion when rendering is resumed which means that the video has to

be rendered from scratch again. If your PC returns to the screensaver or to the Windows login screen after x minutes, rendering will also be interrupted. You can prevent this from happening by running the Windows Media Player in the

background (with some music set to repeat)

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