BIM DIARY: WEEK 06

Lumion in a nutshell

This is quite a short week working on the project. But it was great that I can finally get the glimpse on how Lumion works on both exterior and interior rendering.

Due to the first week of fasting, most of my Muslim colleagues were not around to guide me through the process, so it was rather a do-it-yourself week. The first ever thing to learn is of course, exporting the model to the Lumion. It come to my surprise that the steps to do that were quite hassle-free.

On key thing to note is the difference between importing a Revit family and importing a sketchup model into Lumion. Both works extremely different and for fast production, Mr.S seems to be the better the option to do that. Mainly it shortens the time to update each and every model, while keeping the texture as it is (Lumion will recognize the texture as a material)

So,

I've completed an exterior scene in one day, and another for an interior view. In fact, Lumion is pretty user-friendly, and really fast when it comes to rendering. Not to mention the superb quality of foliage and environmental ambience (presets). I've even learned how to make a simple video of the project with just few clicks away. Love the software!