Can you animate in Lumion?

Can we animate in Lumion?

Animating any object requires you to go to the movie mode of Lumion and add the ‘move’ effect, which works on people as well as other objects like traffic. You can get to movie mode by clicking on the icon highlighted by the red box in the lower right hand corner of the Lumion screenshot below.

How long does a Lumion animation take?

Re: Lumion Animation



A one minute animation might be render at medium quality in 12 minutes (GTX 980 so a fast card) or 56 minutes highest Lumion quality. For slower cards that would increase by up to 5 times, so we’re still only talking about 3 to 5 hours.

How do I make Lumion renders more realistic?

When rendering, you should enable “Speedray reflections” and put reflection planes on big, flat surfaces. Tweak the glossiness slider of the floor and ceiling materials. Making your materials a little more reflective will be always better than static, non-reflective surfaces.

How do you animate an imported object in Lumion?

How do you import animated objects in Lumion?

  1. 1.1: Please use these settings when exporting animated models:
  2. 2.1: Set the Frame Rate to 25 frames per second:
  3. 2.2: Animate your object(s) using move/rotate/scale keyframes:
  4. 2.3: File menu -> Export… -> …
  5. 2.4: Import the FBX file in Lumion with Import animations turned on:
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What is the fastest way to render in Lumion?

Make the Lumion window smaller and/or reduce the resolution of your monitor (the fewer pixels it needs to render, the higher the framerate is). Or, set the Editor Resolution to a lower percentage than 100% on the Settings screen. Set the Editor Quality to a lower star quality on the Settings screen.

What is the fastest way to render in Lumion 11?

Go to the ‘Settings’ menu by pressing the ‘Settings’ button – shown in the picture below. By lowering the editor quality and/or resolution you will increase the speed of the editor, which means that you can more quickly fly around your Lumion scene.

How do you make the sun move in Lumion video?

2. The Sun Effect

  1. 2.1: In Movie Mode, add the Sun Effect to a Clip or to the Entire Movie:
  2. 2.2: Make sure that the Timeline slider is set to frame 0 at the start of the Clip or Movie:
  3. 2.3: Adjust the Sun Height and Sun Heading sliders in the Effect until the sun has the desired start position in the sky.
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