Lumion

Syllabus for Lumion Courses in Hyderabad

Session - 1

Getting Started with Lumion

Why use Lumion?

Lumion 8 features for elevating render beauty to new heights

Simulate daylight with Sky Light: Sky Light’s impact on exteriors, Sky Light’s impact on interiors

Highlight every detail with Soft and Fine Detail Shadows

Possibilities with LUMION

Concept rendering with the hand-drawn Outlines effect: Watercolour Style

Instant smooth edges with the edges slider

What can we get from Lumion?

Importing 3D models:

3D formats,2D formats, Video formats

Workstation specifications

Starting to work with Lumion: A quick overview

GUI

Lumion's 3D interface: Start tab, Examples tab, The Load scene tab, Save scene tab

Camera navigation in Lumion, Exploring the interface and controlling the camera

Weather menu, Landscape menu, Materials menu, Objects menu, Photo menu, Movie menu, Panorama menu, Build menu, Files menu, Settings menu, Help menu and Lumion's layers menu

Session - 2

Practice 01: Importing Different Types of file into SketchUp

Session - 3

Importing and Handling 3D Models

Importing 3D models

Import New Model: Select object, Importing SketchUp files

Re-Import Model: Method 1: Build Mode, Rearranging 3D models

Place mode tools: Move object, Size object, Change height, Rotate, Change the value in Orientation ( ) menu and Using Hotkeys

Placing 3D model accurately

Move mode menu tools

Common problems and solutions

Reversed or missing faces

Session - 4

Practice02: Create an interior model and populate the scene by placing components.

Session - 5

Applying and Creating Materials

Material or texture, A quick overview of Lumion's materials, Assigning materials to a 3D model

Modifying and tweaking Lumion's materials: Scale, Colorization, Reflection, Glossiness and more

Controlling the refection sharpness: Gloss, Reflectivity, Relief, Normal map direction, After - Flip normal direction

Expanded Settings: Position tab, Orientation tab, Transparency tab, Settings tab, Weathering tab, Foliage tab

Custom materials: Working with the Glass material, Hiding geometry with the Invisible material,

Creating swimming pools and other water surfaces, Using the fantastic Water material, Exploring the Waterfall material, The Standard material

The mysterious Advanced Options menu

How do Normal Maps work in Lumion: Using the Normal Map generator, Using Normal Maps from 3rd party applications

Copy, Paste, Save and Load materials in Lumion: Copy/pasting a Material, Loading/saving a Material to a file, Copy/pasting Extended settings, Loading/saving a Material Set to a file

Session - 6

Practice 03: Create and apply materials.

Session - 7

Creating an Exterior Scene with Lumion

Planning your scene, Sculpting the terrain, Lumion's sculpting tools

Shaping the terrain with the Height submenu: Brush Size setting, Brush Speed setting, The Undo button, Using a graphic tablet to sculpt, Working with the Terrain submenu, Flatten terrain map, Toggle rock on/off

Using terrain or height maps

Creating a height map: Using Adobe Photoshop and GIMP, Using an external application

Creating height maps for real locations

Modelling a 3D terrain: The Landscape material, Water material

Water submenu: Place object, Move Object, Delete Object

Ocean submenu

Scattering elements with the Grass submenu, Choosing the landscape with the Paint submenu

Working with Open Street Map in Lumion

Using Lumion's layers: Why use layers?, Where is the Layers menu?, How layers work in Lumion

Session - 8

Practice 04: Create an exterior scene.

Session - 9

Creating Your 3D World

Different categories and what we can find, Idle, animated, and other 3D models

Placing a 3D model from Lumion's library: Placing multiple copies with one click, Random size when placing models

Tweaking the 3D models

Controlling the models: Copying 3D models, Selecting and deleting 3D models

Context menu: Select in library, Replace with library selection

Selection options: Select identical objects, Select All Objects in category, Selecting different categories

Controlling 3D models with the Transformation submenu: Lock Position, Place on ground, Reset size rotation, Same rotation, Randomize, Space XZ, Align

Editing the properties of a 3D model: Control Tree properties dialog box

Session - 10

Practice 05: Populate an exterior scene.

Session - 11

Lighting in Lumion

Lumion lighting – a quick overview, Adjusting the Weather menu, Exterior lighting with the Weather menu

Photo and Movie modes – a very quick introduction

How to create a golden and blue hour: Blue hour, Golden hour

Creating a golden and blue hour with the Sun effect

Adding realistic clouds using the Cloud effect

Interior lighting with Lumion's lights: Spotlights, Omni Lights, Fill Light, Area and Line Lights, Light source

Working with Global illumination

Utilities: Improving reflections with a reflection cube

Session - 12

Practice 06: Add lighting to an interior scene.

Session - 13

Creating Realistic Visualizations

Special effects—fire, smoke, and fog

Special elements: Fire – a practical example, Smoke, Fog

Photo and Movie effects, What are the effects and how can they help me?, Things needed for this chapter

Visualize your conceptual designs in Lumion 8: Instant conceptual renders with the

Styles button, Water colour style, Colour Sketch

The difference with using the Movie mode

Sun study – what is it and how can it be useful, Change Style, Add effect

Tweaking shadows using the Shadow effect

Working of shadows in Lumion, Correcting shadows, Colouring and tweaking soft shadows

Creating realistic reflections, Improving the realism with Camera effects, Camera effects – what are they and how to use them, Depth of field, Creating lens artifacts with the Lens Flare effect

Balancing the Bloom effect with the Exposure effect, Noise, Changing the saturation with the Selective Saturation effect, Colour correcting in Lumion

Adding vignette, Lens' errors – chromatic aberrations, A practical application for the God Rays effect, Working with Horizon, Volume Clouds

Render still Images with the Photo mode, How to control the effects

Session - 14

Practice 07: Create an exterior render with special effects.

Session - 15

Non-photorealistic Visualizations with Lumion

Non-Photorealistic Rendering, Benefits of using NPR's illustrations, How can Lumion help us?

Moving, deleting, and hiding effects

How to use the artistic effects, Conceptual visualization with the Painting, Watercolour, and Sketch effects

The first layer – the Painting effect, The first layer – the Watercolour effect, The second layer – the Sketch effect

Technical illustrations with the Manga and Cartoon effects: Correcting perspective with a 2-point perspective, Exploring and using the Manga effect, Working with the Cartoon effect

How to use the Outlines effect and Lumion’s other artistic options: Pastel Sketch, Oil Painting, Blueprint

Breaking down a concept render: Watercolour, Outlines, Analog Colour Lab

Session - 16

Practice 08: Create a render with artistic effects.

Session - 17

Animation Techniques

Lumion's Movie mode – a quick overview, Motive and the need to create a storyboard,

Lumion's Movie mode – the workflow

Step 1 – Shoot the movie: Creating a camera path, The camera path – how it works, Best practices – creating a smooth camera path, Composition and its importance, Composition, Importance of composition, Getting a good composition

Step 2 – Editing the clips: Editing a camera path, Changing the video length, Camera- filming techniques, Tracking

Step 3 – Organizing the movie: Handling clips, Renaming clips, Deleting and controlling multiple clips, How can we move and rearrange the clips?

Step 4 – Animating objects and effects: Lumion's animation effects – a quick overview, Animating layers with the Hide and Show layer effects, Sky drop with Lumion, Animating a section cut with the Near Clip Plane effect, Keyframe, Simple animations with the Move effect, Animating curved paths with the Advanced move effect

Session - 18

Practice 09: Create a simple animation as shown.

Session - 19

Creating Walk-through Visualizations

Lumion's video effects – a quick overview, The Entire Movie mode

Two exclusive effects – Side By Side 3D stereo and Sound effect, Best practices – copying effects from the Photo mode

Improving the movie using additional effects: Using depth of field and animating the camera's focus, Adding realistic motion blur, Walking and handling the camera, Visual effects – Rain, Snow, and much more, Winter time with the Snow and Rain effects

Small details with Lumion effects: Water effect, Contrails effect, Wind effect, A special touch with falling leaves

Enriching the movie using sound, Playing safe with the Broadcast Safe effect

Final touches using the Titles and In/Out effects: Fading in/out – transitions between clips, Adding text and logos with the Titles effect

Rendering the final movie: Exporting an entire movie, Exporting individual clips, Rendering a sequence of images, Render passes

Session - 20

Practice 10: Create and export an indoor/outdoor walk through video.