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How do you add a Video Texture to a TV?

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1. Here's how to do it in Lumion 8 and newer

Lumion 7 and older: Please see section 2 below.

1.1: Import the model in Lumion and assign a Standard Material to the TV screen:

1.2: Click on the Color Map slot. An Open file dialog window appears, so that you can select a Video Texture file:

1.3: Select the .MP4 file you want to show as playing on the TV screen:

  • The .MP4 file size must be smaller than 50 MB.
  • Please note that Lumion does not play the sound from the Video Texture.
  • To ensure smooth playback, the resolution should be as low as possible, for example 640x360 pixels.

1.4: Adjust the Standard Material properties to your liking. You may want to increase the Emissive slider value a little to make the TV screen emissive. Use the Scale slider and the X/Y/Z Offset sliders on the Position tab to make sure that the Video Texture covers the whole TV screen:

If you prefer to place the Video Texture in your 3D modeling software, please follow the instructions in step 2.1 below.

1.5: Click the tick button to save the changes. The MP4 video in your scene will play continuously in a loop. The first frame of the video texture is always displayed when rendering Photos in Photo Mode. Switch to Movie Mode and adjust the Timeline slider if you want to render a different Video Texture frame.

 

2. Here's how to do it in Lumion 7 and older

Lumion 8 and newer: Please see section 1 above.

2.1: You will need to make sure in your 3D modeling application, that the TV screen has been mapped with a proxy (temporary) texture to the same aspect ratio as the .MP4 video file you want to show on the screen in Lumion, for example 16:9 format. The proxy texture should cover the whole screen and must not tile across it:

2.2: Import the model in Lumion and assign a Standard Material to the TV screen:

2.3: Click on the Color Map slot. An Open file dialog window appears, so that you can select a Video Texture file:

2.4: Select the .MP4 file you want to show as playing on the TV screen:

  • The .MP4 file size must be smaller than 50 MB.
  • Please note that Lumion does not play the sound from the Video Texture.
  • To ensure smooth playback, the resolution should be as low as possible, for example 640x360 pixels.

2.5: Adjust the Standard Material properties to your liking. You may want to increase the Emissive slider value a little to make the TV screen emissive. Make sure that the Scale slider is set to 0, so that the Imported Texture Placement from your 3D modelling application is used:

2.6: Click the tick button to save the changes. The MP4 video in your scene will play continuously in a loop. The first frame of the video texture is always displayed when rendering still images in Photo Mode. Switch to Movie Mode and adjust the Timeline slider if you want to render a different Video Texture frame.

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