Using Layers to Your Advantage in Lumion

Lumion embraces the notion of layers, allowing users to improve their productivity and elevate their creative tasks. Layers are useful in Lumion because they allow us to organize our scene, animate it

Layers are essential for organizing and managing complicated scenes in 3D software. Lumion embraces the notion of layers, allowing users to improve their productivity and elevate their creative tasks.

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Layers are helpful in Lumion because they will enable us to organize our scene, animate it using layer effects, and use them to speed up the viewport. We observed something like this in the top-right region of the Build mode:

Fig. 1: The picture illustrates the number of frames per second rendered by Lumion.

The value shown in the illustration above represents the number of frames per second Lumion generates. In the image on the left, the layers containing trees, plants, and additional stuff were activated, and the frames per second were set to 41.

When they are turned off, the frames per second on the right rise from 41 to 62. The greater the frame rate, the quicker the Lumion's viewing will be, and the amount of control over the scene will increase dramatically. As a result, we can observe how layer efficiency benefits.

Locating the Layers Menu

The Layers menu is unusual because it will be visible only if we work with the Import or Objects menus. When we click on the Import or Objects menu, a little rectangle with a number appears in the top-left corner, and if we move the mouse over the rectangle, the renowned Layers menu opens, as seen in the screenshot:

Fig. 2: Layer 1 will be selected by default when importing a 3D model or adding an item from Lumion's library.

Working with Layers in Lumion

As mentioned, the default layer used when importing a 3D model or adding an object is Layer 1. However, we can customize the layer's name, add a new layer, and hide layers. How? Consider the following screenshot:

Fig. 3: Users can freely modify layer names and create new and hidden layers.

Utilizing Multiple Layers

Lumion supports up to 20 layers, encouraging users to exploit this feature fully for intricate scene compositions. We must first pick a layer and then add the 3D model in the same order the model is selected within the layer.

However, assume we completely forgot and must relocate specific 3D models to the proper layer. How are we going to do that? To begin, choose the 3D model by holding the Ctrl key and clicking and dragging with the left mouse button to make a selection rectangle around the 3D model. Then, as indicated in the figure below, we will choose the proper layer.

Fig. 4:  Relocating specific 3D models to the proper layer

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Embracing the potential of layers in Lumion opens a wide range of advantages, including more excellent performance to better scene organization. Layers will become an essential weapon in your creative gear as you look deeper into architectural visualization.