For one, you can use one of the clear Real Skies or you can add the Sky and Clouds effect and turn up the cloud softness slider to blur the clouds.

With all of Lumions functionality just inviting you to transform your 3D model into a beautiful render, it can be difficult to know where to start.

But before you start building a scene and rendering, there are a few questions you should answer first 1) how do you want to artistically communicate your model and designs, and 2) how can you make it happen in Lumion.

To enhance that vision in your mind, some questions to ask yourself may include.

Just a few of these rules include simplify the scene, use leading lines, be creative with colors, and so on.

The camera angle shouldnt be too wide so as to avoid perspective distortion.

You can use the Sun Study effect to accurately simulate the sun location at a particular location, time and date.

Other effects such as the Sun effect and the Real Skies can help you control the environmental lighting in your design.

Even if the scene you want to show takes place during the daytime, interior and mood lighting can subtly communicate that the building is being used.

You can also use volumetric lighting for an extra atmospheric feeling.

For example, outdoor shadows tend to show with a bluer color.

This is because high-contrast areas can sometimes direct attention to the wrong points in your design.

In many cases, making your materials a little more reflective will work better than static, non-reflective surfaces.

These simple digital colors can look ugly when applied to materials.

Consider using a more natural (and more realistic) color palette for the entire scene.

For the most impact with Sky Light, turn the Sky Light render quality to ultra (which also means ultra-slow render speeds).

Generally, you shouldnt use this effect if you have wide camera angles.

In the above slideshow, you can explore how we created the leading image of this blog post with Lumion effects.

Select and add furniture models from the Lumion object library and fill out some empty spaces.

The idea is to make the spaces look lived-in, where you show how people might use a building, home, public space, etc.

Nevertheless, make sure that your people dont dominate the render.

Their faces should not be too visible so that you dont distract viewers from the model design.

Even if the background is blurry, having the feeling of a real city or forest in the background can enhance the realism of the scene while making the entire render easier for the viewer to understand and digest.

If you feel that the skies are distracting, you have a couple options.

Lumion Rendering Techniques