Hey, what is up, nation?
In this session I'm going over my favorite new features in Lumion 9.
All, right. So you may remember this 3D model. There's a speed model of this and
one of the things that were struggling with is...is that it's a snow scene. And so
one of the things I had to do was I had to find these trees that don't have any
foliage. Because I couldn't find any good ones that don't look dead in Lumion. So I
imported those, that's fine. That's whatever but the other thing that I was
having trouble with was with snow. You could add snow in Lumion 8.5, but what
happened to me, is that I would add snow, and then the entire interior would also
be coated with snow. So now, in Lumion 9, when I go to effects, go to weather and
climate, there's this precipitation tab. There's rain or snow. But you can see
here. You can change the block bias. But basically, now you can see a little bit
if I zoom in. If you go really high, you can see that snow starts to go inside.
But, you now have a slider that you can avoid that. So it seems very cool, really
enjoy that. The only thing I'm not 100% sure if I like the way that it's doing
the trees. I think it would be really nice if there was some like wind options.
Because blocked by plants would be great. But because this is actually like a
model, that I had to bring in, because I didn't like the trees. And unfortunately,
although they did claim to add new vegetation deciduous trees without
foliage is not an option. So, long. But basically, I love this feature, though. You
can obviously change it to rain as well. But yes. It's a...it's a great new feature
for adding snow. The other thing that I really really enjoy, is that they
added real skies. That seems like all these skies are from polygon. But now you
can add a sky. So let's say, like, overcast might be a good one because it's a snowy
day. So I just click that. And it adds in the sky. You can reverse it, you can
change the location of it. But it also affects the lighting. So very cool. I love
that feature. In terms of new models, I know that they boasted a ton of new
content. I think that number is probably a little misleading, I think they said
over 5,000 models. But I don't think that's necessarily new models I think
that was including all the old models, I haven't noticed a lot of new things.
I know that they boasted the cars. But it doesn't seem like there's a whole lot
more cars in here. But I could be wrong. I don't use cars very often. One thing I
did notice is that there are some more people. A few more people I know that I
don't think they had people riding a bike, or at least as many people. So I
think that's a little bit different. I did notice that there is a much larger
library in kitchen. For doing any sort of cabinetry, I think before I had to import
everything. But you can see all the different cooktops that they have here.
And then all of the cabinetry...let me get there. A ton of different options for
cabinetry. You can, sort of...now you can essentially play Legos with with these
there's different styles. And that's really exciting, because in this model,
which has a little kitchen on this side, I had to build my own. So very cool new
models. I love it. Here I have imported a Sketchup 3D model of a building. And the
landscape is also generated in Sketchup. The only thing that is in Lumion currently,
or that was generated in Lumion is the plants. So that's all in Lumion.
This next feature is possibly my favorite. So once you have a landscape in
here, if you have modeled that in 3D you can apply a material to it. The material
is currently coming directly from Sketchup. So if I mouse over you can see
it's called "vegetation grass". If I just click it, there's now this option in
nature. There's 2D grass. And now there's 3D grass. So if I click 3D grass, you can
see there are a bunch of different options in here. Now, I always feel like I
struggle with making grass in any 3D software that I've done. It just takes a
long time to render. If you're doing it in something like v-ray because you have
to add essentially add fur, or bump Maps, or things like that to fake it. And so, in
Lumion it's been really nice because I've been able to have like huge clusters of
grass tips to make it more realistic. But with this new 3D grass tool it's even
easier than it was before. So now you can just...essentially just
click one of these. And there's a bunch of different option. There's a
checkerboard, there's some more checker boards, circular grass. If you like those,
sort of like stripes, you can do that farm grass, which gives these a little
like horizontal rows. Clean-cut. I personally always sort of like the wild-looking
grass that was. That's probably a little too wild for me. This looks ok.
But, additionally to that, if you double-click it, you can see there's a ton of
different options in here. So you can even customize it. Even more. So there's
gravity force. But you can see just makes it. Go a little bit. And then there's this
bending force. You can see either...either you want it to like spread out. It's kind
of like what it looks like it's doing. So you may just want to mess with this to
have grass size, grass length. You can do that. And someone asked me a question
earlier this week about colorization of grass.
And I said "You can do it in...with the old feature of 8.5. You could change the
color. But in 9 it's even easier". So if you just want to bump up the
colorization to be max, you just go to RGB and you can change it to any color
you want. So if I wanted it to be pink, for whatever reason :) I could do that.
So really love that feature. I'm just gonna exit out of this really quick. And
then just pick the default. One of the defaults here. 3D grass...just keep it on
this. I really love this feature, and I think it just adds so much to
3D modeling. And you don't have to do, spend so much time. So I just love this.
And let me just hit the render button, and you guys can see what the finished
product here would look like.
We talked about this a little bit earlier. But one thing that is new in
Lumion 9 is precipitation. And I showed you snow. But there's actually also rain.
So if you add effect, go to weather climate, precipitation. You can add rain as well.
And so, I sort of that, you can see the rain here. But if I go here, you can see
there's actually little raindrops, which is pretty cool. So if I play this, you can
see that there's these little animations that come up from the rain, which I think
adds a lot of atmosphere. And you can also change the amount that the ground
is wet, which is very cool. So if I go to precipitation, you can change the phase
here. So if it's just starting. you know, to being soaked, and you get that line
here from the roof, which is very cool.
Another one of the really cool features in Lumion 9, that is sort of some similar grass,
is that you can now add fur. So if I have the material editor selected,
and I select this blanket, which I've named "Fur", you can go to nature. And under
nature there is now an option called "fur". And you can select any of these presets.
Or, double-click, and you get a lot more color options in here. So if you want it
to be a little bit more rough, you can certainly do that colorization. I always
sort of like. I want this to be a darker red though. And you can always just...this
may be a little much :) But you can really mess with the character of this fur
blanket. And it gives a really unique equality to your materials.
In Lumion 9 you also change the user interface. You can see here that it's a little bit
more opaque. Whereas in 7 or 8.5, the
menu is very transparent. Or translucent. And they also added this feature when
you're placing. So before they had single placement, they also had mass placement.
And now there's this new option, called "Cluster placement". So if I have this
tree, you can see there's a bunch of those little boxes.
It'll just place a small cluster of trees, which is I think really cool.
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