Looking for a roofing tutorial for dummies
So I have always been absolutely terrible at roofs in Sims 2 :s I pretty much always relied on the autoroof tool... But it's high time I learned how to do nice roofs myself. Can anyone recommend any g...
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Hi guys!
First of all, sorry that it took me some time to respond - somehow I didn't get the notification emails and real life took over enough for me to forget about this.
And I really do appreciate all of your input :) I have come across links to Mike Inside's pages before, but it seems that they are all gone now as far as I can see, but if someone knows of a backup somewhere - please let me know!
I have the Ultimate Collection, so it could indeed be the M&G issue @Cinebar has mentioned...
I tried to get as close to the original pictures as possible, experimented with tiles and such and it just didn't work out as well as I would've liked it to unfortunately, as there was still plenty of clipping. The house from my example also has plenty of areas where something would get left uncovered if working in straight lines, but then when I would increase the depth of the roof it looked weird.
To be honest, I was hoping this was going to be easy, seeing how I didn't need to come up with a floor plan of my own, but boy was I wrong. In the end I had to build sort of a half-floor between the first and second floors to make the roof above the porch work(something I have never done before either), then it conflicted with the original stair placement, so I had to adjust that and re-do half the 2nd floor layout........ After all this frustration, I decided to just cover everything with the roof the best I could(so there's an extra balcony on the top floor now just because I couldn't figure it out :D). It doesn't look too bad, but it's definitely far from what I would like it to be and is not really consistent with the Victorian look unfortunately.
So I am still a roof-building dummy :( I can only bow down to the people that create such awesome looking houses for the Sims series, it truly is one heck of a skill.
@cmbaker16 This house is 21 x 21 or something along these lines if I recall correctly, so it's quite huge. The dormers are the one thing I don't dislike and find very easy in this ordeal :LOL: I did try to use a lot of half-hipped roofs in combination with the other half one(half-gable is it? The one that ends in a straight cut rather than more roof), but it didn't look quite right... But I think I will try to re-do it all again when I have a bit more time(I still have plenty of furnishing to do ;) )
@Oldseadogge I didn't want to use the M&G pieces because I can't quite see around them and 3rd floor is the master bedroom/newborn nursery, so there's plenty of foot traffic there. Can you recommend any good mods that would fix that and maybe add extra elements?
First of all, sorry that it took me some time to respond - somehow I didn't get the notification emails and real life took over enough for me to forget about this.
And I really do appreciate all of your input :) I have come across links to Mike Inside's pages before, but it seems that they are all gone now as far as I can see, but if someone knows of a backup somewhere - please let me know!
I have the Ultimate Collection, so it could indeed be the M&G issue @Cinebar has mentioned...
I tried to get as close to the original pictures as possible, experimented with tiles and such and it just didn't work out as well as I would've liked it to unfortunately, as there was still plenty of clipping. The house from my example also has plenty of areas where something would get left uncovered if working in straight lines, but then when I would increase the depth of the roof it looked weird.
To be honest, I was hoping this was going to be easy, seeing how I didn't need to come up with a floor plan of my own, but boy was I wrong. In the end I had to build sort of a half-floor between the first and second floors to make the roof above the porch work(something I have never done before either), then it conflicted with the original stair placement, so I had to adjust that and re-do half the 2nd floor layout........ After all this frustration, I decided to just cover everything with the roof the best I could(so there's an extra balcony on the top floor now just because I couldn't figure it out :D). It doesn't look too bad, but it's definitely far from what I would like it to be and is not really consistent with the Victorian look unfortunately.
So I am still a roof-building dummy :( I can only bow down to the people that create such awesome looking houses for the Sims series, it truly is one heck of a skill.
@cmbaker16 This house is 21 x 21 or something along these lines if I recall correctly, so it's quite huge. The dormers are the one thing I don't dislike and find very easy in this ordeal :LOL: I did try to use a lot of half-hipped roofs in combination with the other half one(half-gable is it? The one that ends in a straight cut rather than more roof), but it didn't look quite right... But I think I will try to re-do it all again when I have a bit more time(I still have plenty of furnishing to do ;) )
@Oldseadogge I didn't want to use the M&G pieces because I can't quite see around them and 3rd floor is the master bedroom/newborn nursery, so there's plenty of foot traffic there. Can you recommend any good mods that would fix that and maybe add extra elements?
