15 LUMION TIPS/HOTKEYS in Less Than 15 MINUTES!!

hello everyone hope you're all having a great weekend uh what i want to show in this video are just uh 15 quick uh tricks or hot keys in lumion that might speed up your workflow uh i'm assuming that most people would actually know a lot of these already but uh you know if you are a beginner you may learn you know more than just one or two but i am really only expecting most people to only learn uh one or two but it's still pretty cool to take a look at this stuff so let's just jump into that so there are actually some hotkeys that you can use to speed up or slow down your navigation inside of lumion depending on what you need you can just use the scroll wheel to move in and out but you should get used to using aws and d to move around as you you know it's just a little bit easier um but what you can do is if this is not a fast enough speed for you then you can hold shift and w and you'll move around pretty fast obviously a s and d also work with this but if you want to go really slow and just zoom in on something then you can hold the spacebar and w and all the other buttons and you'll start moving around now if you have a huge file and you really have to move around you want to hold shift space bar and then hit your movement button and you'll just zip around so that's probably the fastest way uh well it is the fastest way to get around in lumion and can save you a lot of time with big scenes so for the second trick uh what you can do is if you have a placed object like the stool i dropped here then you can just hold down the alt key and as you can see while i'm holding it in the bottom right hand corner it'll actually shortcut move your object and leave a copy in its place so holding alt i can just drag it over here and drag another one over here and then you make a duplicate of that object it'll be that exact same object so if you are just doing you know chairs or something like that you can bring it in here and then just make quick copies of it so this one actually uh kind of blew my mind when i found out about it because this could have saved me a lot of time so if you are placing a car so we'll just maybe choose this one if you hit c then it actually cycles through colors and as you can see so if you are doing something like a parking lot you can just quickly drop a car hit c drop in another place and then you don't have to keep going and like clicking around up here and doing all this so that was a really cool trick in my opinion so there are hotkeys that are actually associated with rotating and also scaling of objects um if we're going to drop like a chair or yeah something like this down uh you can hold r while you're placing it to determine how it's going to be rotated you can also hold l to determine its scale after you drop it these will still work so if you hold r and then you click on it you can rotate and if you hold l and then scale up then you can do it so for this one i put some really overpowering lights into the scene uh and the purpose of it is to actually just show you that if you are in uh camera mode and i believe even build mode that this would work it's just not night time in build mode uh if you hit f8 then it will actually don't have to click back on lumen if you hold f8 then it actually previews how your spotlights are going to react with walls and things like that so if i let go of f8 as you can see like there's light bleeding through the walls uh it's kind of going all over the place but if you hold f8 then it will actually calculate where the light is going to be stopping so that can save you a little bit of time before you render something out you can just quickly see like you know is the sp uh are the spotlights in the right place or do i need to move them over a little bit so this is gonna be a really quick one basically if you're in build mode and you know you're looking down at the ground and you need to get it to perfectly horizontal to check something if you hit control h then it will snap your camera back uh to a zero degrees horizontal angle so this is something i didn't even know was possible in lumion uh you can actually orbit around objects so basically just point your uh indicator at like an object so if i want to orbit around this table i'd hold o and then i'd as you can see down here zoom in and out and rotate camera so from here you basically have two options but for this one we're going to hold the right mouse button and we're going to move it and then you are orbiting around an object so double clicking an object with both the leftmost button and the right mouse button will have different functionalities so if we click in the lumion hold shift spacebar and s to zoom way back and i double click on any of these objects with my left mouse button then you zoom right up into it and if i zoom back out again and i double click with my right mouse button then i'm still zooming in but i don't go quite in as far so right is better to kind of get to that like the general area but if you really need to zoom in on a particular object then you want to double left click it so this one is a little bit better for people that have less than optimal computers [Music] if you hit the f9 button then it will actually uh turn all of your trees into low quality trees when you're further away from them so if i hit f9 as you can see all the trees uh go into like a much easier format for lumion to handle uh so in this mode i have about 45 to 50 fps in that range and when i turn the high quality trees back on as you can see it drops down about 10 fps which isn't a huge deal but you know obviously you can get much better performance like if you're really struggling to even get like 20 or 30 frames then this can help speed up your workflow a lot so if you find yourself wasting a lot of time going back and forth between camera mode saving and just camera angles and getting all that stuff there is actually a faster way to do it if you hold the control button and then hit 1 to 0 with 10 being or 10 being represented by the zero on your keyboard then as you can see you'll see like the snap like you just took a camera shot and if we actually go look in photo mode then we now have this so you will have to update the thumbnail but i thought that was pretty neat um so you can just quickly snap it and let's try that again we'll go in uh control two and then we just update the thumbnail here and there it is so if you have a scene where you're really going through and you find a shot you really want you just snap it and then you can go and add your effects onto it so if you find yourself needing to select a lot of objects and you don't want to click every single individual object there is a way to mass select things in lumion now obviously you can use these buttons up here if you're clicking on something like a tree you can go up to select all identical objects and then all of that kind of tree will get selected you can also do um select all in the same categories if you do that just all of the nature objects will get selected and that works for a lot of things but what you can also do is let me just check off this for a second what you can also do is hold control and then just drag a window over it so i've selected about 400 trees and obviously i can come and delete them do whatever i want but if i then want to add more to the selection i hit control again and then i hold shift and then i just drag it over everything and now i'm selecting all 753 trees so when when i first started using lumion what always frustrated me is that when i was moving things along the horizontal axis um i thought it was weird that you couldn't lock them to the actual x and i guess z-axis in this even though i always would think of that as x and y but uh you actually can so i guess i was just an idiot and i didn't look into it but if you're moving something horizontally and you don't want to do this then while you're moving it hold x and you'll lock it to the x axis as you can see that's the red axis in the middle there and then you can also hold z and then it will lock it to that some of you that use blender will know this as x and y it's the same thing but i thought that that was really cool because uh there's a lot of times where you have to get um you know just line things up and i i quite honestly just always did it uh copying it and then holding it on the uh horizontal axis without actually locking it so if you're moving an object around and you need it to be a little more precise than just uh you know i guess like the default uh speed you know if you're trying to get something to work and you just can't get it to line up if you hold shift uh like a lot of other things in lumion it will actually slow down the selection so as you can see uh doing it with shift i can just easily come in and place the table on the ground whereas if i'm doing this like it's a little more touchy and so yeah shift this works for a lot of sliders too it will just slow down the selection so you can get a more precise number so if you have something in your scene that you need lighting uh for um this would work well with kind of studio lights but you can actually direct point lights in a particular direction so uh if we just hop in here with the spotlights that i just threw in here quickly um we can click on this one click on this one and then maybe click on uh i thought there was no yeah and then there's the other one here so uh there's a target lights option here and if you click right there then all of the lights are now pointing uh inwards so as i said this would be great for like studio lighting or if there's just like a statue or something you can basically place a bunch of lights around it click all of them and then like place it on the top of the statue and all the lights will turn in the correct direction so this trick uh it's pretty easy one uh and it works really well uh if you're using lumion for really big scenes so if you hit f1 f2 f3 and f4 it will actually keep bumping up the quality of your editor now normally um i prefer to just have higher frames so i normally keep it at one uh i don't really care about seeing the shadows and stuff like that just so that because like i will have it inside a camera mode obviously um but uh it is pretty helpful like um i can see myself kind of using this in the future um just if i wanna you know maybe play around with something um in build mode and i'm just kind of you know playing around with like the shadows that kind of thing um but yeah so that should be the last trick hope you guys enjoyed that video uh this was a different uh approach than i normally do um as you can see normally i just kind of do the whole video i film it but this one i wanted to break it up just so i could set up some different tips and uh hopefully people are able to learn a thing or two i really don't expect most people uh to be learning the majority of these hotkeys i think that if people have been using lumion for a while then they might have picked up these hotkeys over time but you know if you're a new uh user then you might have just learned a couple of tricks to kind of expedite your learning process so i just want to thank everyone again for checking out the channel it's been a lot of fun making videos lately and i will uh see you guys in the next one take it easy

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Length: 12min 10sec (730 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 25 2020