How to create a plan view in Lumion 9.5?

Straight plan views are usually something you create using Lumion but it’s possible. And it’s a great way to illustrate your projects together with the use of transparency in larger shrubs and trees, check out my plan : There are a few different effects applied to this image, I normally like to lower the saturation…

Lumion Update: New Wood Materials and Objects in LUMION 9.5 PRO

Lumion 9.5 Pro is live! In this video, I’m going to show a little bit of the wood textures and objects. Release Notes: New Features Material Library The new HD materials in Lumion 9.5 and Lumion 9.5 Pro include: 3 fine woods for interiors and exteriors 2 wood materials for cabins walls 16 wood floors…

More FREE Plants for your Lumion library

Working as garden designers or landscaper plants are the main element of focus after the design, and the more the merrier so you can have a more diversify library in your Lumion Pro. There are a few websites with 3D plants you can purchase and use them in Lumion, they are not going to be…

TOP 5 Why 3D renderings are important!

Check out my video about TOP 5 Reasons you should improve your 3D renderings; 1st: Visualize from 2D to 3D 2nd: Textures, structures and colours of plants 3rd: Georeferencing, visualize sun and shadow 4th: Realistic materials 5th: Using real furniture These are the most important reasons why you should really invest in great 3D renderings,…

What are your favourite apps as a garden designer?

I’m creating a pdf with my favourite apps as a garden designer and how do I use them and what for. So if you interested don’t forget to subscribe to the newsletter 😉👍. Applications and softwares changed the way I organize my work and really changed the way I relate with my customers. There are…

Lumion PRO 9 online course is live

The online course Rendering your Clients Dream Garden is Live and now completely updated for Lumion Pro 9. 8 lessons were added to the course and I think you really going to create amazing renderings for your projects using my tips for Lumion Pro 9 specially created for garden designers and landscape architects. There are…

What type of plants you should add to your Lumion Pro library?

The 3D Warehouse from SketchUp has amazing plant models you can add to your import library inside Lumion Pro 9, and customize your own collections inside the library of imported models. I did this video to explain what type of plants I think you should add to Lumion and why especially you if thinking of…

With or without Real Skies?!?

Lumion 9 PRO keeps surprising me, especially the 3D grass (check out my video here) and the Real Skies effect. It changes the ambience of the rendering, the light in the textures it’s really an amazing improvement. Check out the two images below: It’a one of does things that until you use it you really…

My TOP 15 PLANTS in Lumion 9

These are some of my favourite plants inside Lumion Pro 9 version. Hopefully soon Lumion will have the Latin name of the plants and not the common names in their library. The quality of the plants is really good especially when animated with the wind, check out the video and don’t forget to subscribe to…

Trying out Sky Light 2 effect

In this video, I try out the NEW Sky Light 2 Effect in version 9 of Lumion that went live yesterday, 5th of November. Check out the images below, on the left is with the Sky Light 2 effect on and the column on the right that effect is off. Learn to create a great…

SkecthUp and the 3D Warehouse for garden designers

SketchUp is an amazing tool for garden designers and landscape architects. Check out our 3D Warehouse collections, https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/by/gardendesigntools?nav=collections, there are some great models for garden designers to use, I will keep updating it.   The online course SketchUp Basics for Garden Designers is available for €125,00, check out the curriculum here: https://gardendesigntools.thinkific.com/courses/sketchup-basics-for-garden-designers

You can’t build in Lumion!

Lumion is an amazing program, but you can’t build inside Lumion, you can add, import, modify textures and materials but you can’t build. That’s why you always need programs like SketchUp or Revit to build your projects. This video was in response to a question made to me by email from Mandy. I hope it…

Present, communicate, and experience your design with SketchUp Viewer

The SketchUp software is the base of great projects and renderings. SketchUp Viewer is an amazing tool of the main program. SketchUp Viewer for HoloLens Experience your designs by bringing your 3D models to life in mixed reality, and step into a powerful new way to explore, understand, and share your work.Physical models cost time…