Project Setup

How do we setup a project within Lumion in the mosft efficient way, to make sure we take advantage of all the benefits working inside of Lumion?

1) Materials

Remember that Lumion will collapse materials if they're the same, so before starting Lumion make sure you structure the materials, use as few materials as possible, one material for glass as example. Also remember that if you apply a material to a wall in Revit called "red brick horizontal" and then go into Lumion and change that material to a red brick. Lumion will now associate all the materials in your Revit file that has the material "red brick horizontal" with that type of material you applied in Lumion. So just remember that if you're chaning that material in Revit, the material you've applied before in Lumion will disapear.

Materials that have different rotations needs to be seperated, like vertical and horizontal brick, even though they have the same type of brick texture.

Materials are key in order to create a good workflow within Lumion, it's worth spending time keeping it sorted and organized.

2) Plan how you should import models

There's different ways to think when you're importing models into Lumion, most common way is to Livesync the whole model, this workflow is usually the best. Scenarios when you'd like to rethink is if you would like to split up the work in the file, for example if someone is working on the landscape and the other with textures on a building. Read more about this in the "Revit and Rhino plugins" page.

You can for example export the landscape seperately to Lumion, so you could use Livesync for the buildings, and then export the landscape and align them together. Look at the example under.

3) Make sure everyone involved understands the workflow

It's very important that all involved in the project understands the workflow of Lumion if we're gonna make sure that we sustain a effective way of working through the project. Especially materials. Have a meeting with the people involved, including 3D-artists if you plan to scoop over work for them, this will secure that we're not doing any double-work.