Lumion Pro

Architectural Visualization and Animation using Lumion Pro

Architecture & Industrial Design4.8(79)6h 55m26 lectures6 sections

What you'll learn

  • Get and install Lumion and adjust its settings
  • Move around the program and import objects
  • Use the content library, selection and transformation tools
  • Set up weather, clouds and sky lighting
  • Change the terrain and add mountains, seas and grass
  • Work with materials and create material maps
  • Export the project as still images with effects
  • Export the project as a movie, with animation and panoramic images

About this course

This course teaches Lumion Pro for presenting architectural projects and exporting them as images, video and animation. You start by getting and installing the software, learning which computer suits it and adjusting the settings, then moving around the program with Navigation, adding plugins and importing objects from modeling programs. After that you explore the Content Library, selection and transformation tools, groups and layers. Then you set up weather, clouds and sky lighting, use the brush to change the terrain of the project, and add mountains, seas, grass and open street map road maps. You also learn the materials library, creating new materials and material maps, and the alpha mask. At the end you export the project as still images with FX effects or as a Movie, and learn Animation and panoramic images. The course suits architects, interior designers and anyone who works on three dimensional projects. You only need a project drawn in a modeling program. After the course, you will be able to present your project with materials and a natural setting and export it in high quality.

Expected outcomes

  • Create stunning presentations using Lumion.
  • Master material and lighting setup to enhance project realism.
  • Easily add natural environment elements to projects.
  • Produce panoramic images and films to showcase projects professionally.
  • Organize and manage project libraries effectively.

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Course content

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Basic Skills

5 lectures
  1. Providing Lumion 11 and Explaining How to Install It on the DeviceIntroduces Lumion 11 and its role in architectural rendering and animation, and covers system and graphics card requirements, creating an account, downloading and installing the trial version, and running it for the first time.16:00
  2. The Ideal Device for Working on the Program and Adjusting SettingsExplains Lumion's main start screen, changing the language and its sections, running the hardware Benchmark, and adjusting Settings such as treating objects as proxies and autosave to improve performance.18:01
  3. NavigationExplains navigating a Lumion scene with the keyboard keys W, A, S, D, Q and E and with the mouse, changing speed with Shift and Space, focusing on an object by double-click, and orbiting around it with the O key.12:57
  4. Adding Plugins and Importing Elements from Modelling SoftwareExplains starting a new Lumion project by choosing an environment, importing a model made in 3D Max or Revit, installing the Live Sync export plugin, and the difference between importing Collada files and other formats.26:47
  5. Overcoming Fear and Getting to Know the Different Stages of the ProgramA quick walkthrough of Lumion's workflow from start to finish on a Revit model: sculpting mountains, changing the building's materials, then exporting the result as a still image and as a movie by recording camera motion.15:17
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Weather and Landscape

6 lectures
  1. Adjusting Weather, Clouds, and Sky LightingExplains setting the weather in Lumion with the Weather tool: sun direction and height to set the time of day from daytime to sunset to night, cloud amount, sky types, and wind speed and direction.10:06
  2. Using the Brush and Changing the Terrain of the ProjectExplains shaping the project terrain in Lumion with the Paint tool under Landscape: brush painting, adjusting brush size and strength, choosing ground materials, changing Tile Size, and using seamless tiling textures.15:35
  3. Mountains, Plains, and Working with Terrain MapsExplains the Height tool under Landscape in Lumion for creating mountains, valleys and plains: raising, lowering and flattening terrain, using black-and-white height maps, and importing real terrain from a file.13:48
  4. Seas, Oceans, and Water BodiesExplains working with bodies of water in Lumion through the Landscape tools Water and Ocean, adjusting water color, brightness and motion, placing water in a pool or model, and creating a shore and a river by digging the terrain.15:45
  5. Grass and utilities toolsExplains adding grass with the Grass tool under Landscape and adjusting its look and height, ground issues when placing it, then utility tools such as Clip Plane for horizontal and vertical cuts, the measuring tool and text on the model.18:16
  6. open street mapExplains using OpenStreetMap inside Lumion to download the streets and buildings of a real geographic area, choosing its extent, what appears on it and building heights, noting it only works on a genuine copy of the software.5:44
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Content Library

5 lectures
  1. Content LibraryExplains the Content Library in Lumion and adding trees, people and other ready-made models to a project, with placement shortcuts such as V, H and L, and Mass Placement with random types and sizes.22:47
  2. Lighting, Sound and Visual Effects, and Navigation within the Content LibraryTours the rest of Lumion's content library: furniture, kitchen items and outdoor lighting placed on surfaces, lamps that light up at night, effects such as fire, fog and falling leaves, and sound effects.15:05
  3. Selection and transformation toolsExplains selection and transformation tools for project objects in Lumion: adding buildings, fire, smoke, sound and lighting, selecting by category or by drawing, and moving objects with exact values relative to the project origin.22:12
  4. Group/Models propertiesExplains the properties panel of each object in Lumion, such as fire, lights and cars, changing its options, grouping several objects to move them together, and saving a group to reuse in other projects.12:45
  5. Layers/Advanced optionsExplains Layers in Lumion for organizing objects, and the advanced options for controlling selected objects, such as replacing objects, equalizing spacing and sizes, and dropping an object onto the ground following the surface slope.19:59
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Materials

4 lectures
  1. Working with the Ready-made Materials Library and Adjusting Its PropertiesExplains applying materials to an imported model in Lumion, why materials must be separated with distinct names in the modeling program, browsing the material library such as grass, rock, soil and water, and adjusting material properties.24:40
  2. Creating Different Types of New MaterialsExplains creating new material types in Lumion from the New tab, such as Billboard, plain color, glass, the invisible material and the emissive material, and saving an edited material to the library.17:07
  3. Materials MapsExplains creating a new Standard material in Lumion with its maps: preparing the Color Map, Normal Map and Displacement Map in Photoshop, then loading them into the material and tuning values for realistic texture and relief.11:20
  4. Alpha Mask and Advanced SettingsExplains advanced material settings in Lumion, fixing flicker between overlapping materials with Flicker Reduction, cutting openings in a material using an Alpha channel made in Photoshop, and the foliage effect on a material.16:09
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Rendering

5 lectures
  1. Exporting the Project as Still ImagesExplains rendering a project as still images in Lumion with the Photo tool: creating several shots, adjusting the lens and viewing angle, choosing image resolution, and saving a single image or several at once.9:39
  2. Adding Effects to ImagesExplains adding FX effects to images before rendering in Lumion, similar to Photoshop filters, including camera effects, artistic effects, orthographic views, sun studies and Variation Control.21:08
  3. Exporting the Project as a MovieExplains rendering a project as a movie in Lumion with the Movie tool: recording camera motion with keyframes across several clips, previewing them, rendering a clip, the entire movie or an image sequence, and adding videos and images.18:14
  4. AnimationExplains animating people and cars in Lumion: adding animated characters and setting their path with Move, controlling speed with Advanced Move, varying the cars, and adding an audio track and changing time of day across the movie.22:44
  5. 360 Panorama PhotosExplains rendering 360-degree panorama photos in Lumion, including stereo images for VR headsets, setting quality and rendering, viewing them in the gallery, and uploading to MyLumion and sharing the link.13:32
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Instructor

Ahmed Hassan Khamis

Ahmed Hassan Khamis

He has developed computer science curricula for various Arab universities and taught at Alexandria University. He has authored over 120 educational books in computer science.
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