I have been really enjoying using lumion for quick renders. I have seen some phenomenal examples of photo-realistic renders from Lumion but sadly I always feel my images lurk in that dodgy area that is not quite photo-realistic. I decided I would like to combine some of the sketchy quality of Sketchup with the excellent lighting of Lumion.
Here are some things I learnt along the way.
Step One
Rendered image from Lumion built from a Sketchup model
Step Two
In Sketchup go to the ‘camera’ menu and insert your Lumion image by clicking on ‘new photo match’
Step three
Pick a style that you would like to overlay on top of your lumion render
Step Four
To turn off the photomatched image untick these boxes in the edit part of the style menu AFTER you have chosen the style you want to export
Step Five
Open your exported sketchy edge iage in photoshop and overlay onto the Lumion image.
Step Six
I also overlaid a paper texture to the image and added some landscape behind windows.
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Hi. Im figuring this out also as I do this technique in vray+skp before. Does it work when you enable 2 point perspective in Lumion and photo match it to sketchup?
I need to get the lines in skp because I usually represent some small elements with lines instead of making a 3d out of it like mullions in a building or tower. You can barely see the 3d of those from a far.
I guess it will also help to make some dummy object with obvious axis when your model doesn’t show them like organic designs.
Thanks for this tutorial. Its really helpful.
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Hi Phil- thank you for the comment. I get your point about the lines I also think that the legibility of window details etc. are improved by adding the lines. I can’t recall the perspective settings I used in Lumion but the exported images were easy to photomatch back into the Sketchup file. It would definitely be a good idea to use dummy lines to help with the photomatch if your design is curvy- great idea! I’m glad you liked the tutorial.