Author: Justin Geis

Learn to use Lumion 9’s new customizable grass material to quickly create realistic grass in any area in your Lumion Renderings!

In this video, we check out the new Real Skies feature that was added in Lumion 9. This feature allows you to quickly add photorealistic Sky HDRIs to your backgrounds, letting you create photorealistic renderings with absolutely realistic skies and lighting with very little effort!

In this video, learn how to use Lumion’s landscape material tools to adjust your environment and specific materials on faces to create realistic materials in your Lumion renderings!

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In today’s video, we’re going to talk about using the landscape paint tools in Lumion to customize your landscapes.
One of the most powerful things about Lumion is its ability to quickly customize landscapes – in this case, I wanted to talk a bit about how to use the landscape paint tools.
These tools allow you to paint different materials on your landscapes, setting the kind of landscape they are.
Each one of these materials is a material you can paint on a Lumion landscape type.
By clicking the little arrow above, you can set the material – Lumion has quite the selection of materials that you can choose from.
Note that one material drives where the grass is located at the moment – you can set this by clicking on the corner of each material type to assign grass to that slot.
To add grass to your model, use this material.
The brush settings are very similar to the settings in the terrain editor, allowing you to adjust your brush size and the speed at which the material is applied. In addition though, is a slider that allows you to set the size of the image that’s getting tiled by the materials.
The landscape type option allows you to set the kind of scene you’re going to have – meaning you can change your landscape types to snowy, red rocks, desert, green. Note that when you do this, all 4 of your material types change.
Finally, you can also adjust the size and type of side rock that’s shown in Lumion – this is the rock that shows up over a certain slope.

In this video, we talk about Live Sync – Lumion’s SketchUp extension that allows Lumion to live update any changes to your SketchUp model in real-time!

One of the most powerful new features contained in Lumion 8 is the ability to change your models directly within SketchUp and have them also change within Lumion. This means that now instead of making changes and having to re-import your model constantly, you can simply make a change in your SketchUp model and it will automatically update.
That can be valuable for many different things. For example, this is a 3D warehouse model that I pulled down, and it has trees included. As you know, Lumion has a great library of trees, so maybe the trees you had in the SketchUp model initially aren’t a great fit. You don’t even have to delete them, you can simply hide them.
To use Livesync, you need to download and install the SketchUp livesync app from the 3D Warehouse. You can find it by opening up the 3D Warehouse and searching for “Lumion.”
Once you’ve installed the app, it’s simply a question of importing your SketchUp model into Lumion, then just clicking the “Play” button in the app in SketchUp. Now any changes you make in the SketchUp model will reflect in Lumion itself.
Note that you have the option to synchronize your camera view between Lumion and SketchUp, or you can turn it off.
In this case, let’s go in and make a couple of quick changes, then we’ll use a preset to quickly export a camera view of our model.

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In part two of this step by step series for exporting from SketchUp and creating a Photorealistic Rendering in Lumion, we look at mapping/placing our material properly, as well as exporting our photorealistic image.