February 21, 2011, 01:53:02 pm
Hi Darius_bd and welcome to the Lumion forum.
1) PDF MANUALA PDF manual is already on the wish list:
- PDF manual/Help file in multiple languages
For now, your best bet is to check out the "Tips, Tricks and Shortcuts" post which I regularly update. Time permitting, I'd like to expand this with a "Best practices" section as well as description of all of the "Modify" commands plus a list of what the Stars in the Movie section entail and so on and so forth. Just bear in mind that this post refers to the latest release of the full version of Lumion, so if you're using the Demo version you'll have to wait until Update 1 "Final" is ready to be released – that's when the Demo version will be updated.
2) PLACING OBJECTSYou're right, it's currently not easy to place objects accurately in relation to each other. Here's an excerpt from the wish list:
- Absolute/relative values type-in option when moving/rotating/scaling/ALT-copying objects
3) HELP / CTRL"Ctrl while hovering over help": This is not what Arthur meant (it does look rather convoluted that sentence, I'll grant you that – either way, you *don't* need to press [CTRL] over the Help button. The point was that [CTRL] or "Home" -> "Always Advanced Mode on" will display additional options, sliders and parameters in most sections.