DeanXeL's Basegame Builds and building tips/building around glitches :)
Welcome to this board :D I am Heleen, a bit of an experimental builder. you can also find me on twitch and youtube. Since I have only basegame, it pushes me to be creative in different ways and I ...
I thought I would address another important issue: Roof clipping. It's been a pain since... forever and so far I only found a full workaround using TOOL, console players or modless players can download invisible doors here. Here for the video tutorial!
So: why does roof clip and how can we avoid or fix it?
1) The roof is covering a (part of) the room on the floor above:
Sadly, roof is visible on the floor it is placed on AND any floor above. While you can keep the roof from clipping into fully walled rooms on the floor it is in, it will remain above it (since it is NOT enclosed in walls on that floor!) and can severely obstruct the view this way.
These are 2 similarly built houses, right? https://i.imgur.com/1EHyNqW.png
Not really though, the left uses a single triangle roof over the ground floor level (obstructing the view of the floor above), while the right uses 3 pieces of roof: 2 slanted roofs on the ground level and a triangle roof on top of the floor above. TIPS: use shift + click/drag on eaves to only remove/lengthen the upper eaves in the triangle if needed. Also use alt + drag the roof height to adjust the roof freely (instead of in predetermined height steps), making it a lot easier to fit perfectly. Also, when you want to use curved roofs: try clicking the roof and using shift + C, this will give you another curve point, making them easier to match up when curved. https://i.imgur.com/JiAdQvm.png
2) The horror that is roof clipping with lofts/fenced areas/platforms
Yeah, I am sorry to say there is no true fix for this. I will explain why it does this and how it works/how to avoid it.
Imagine having this nice building with a round window/porch in front. As long as the room above is fully walled, no problem!
https://i.imgur.com/nqROUJp.png
If we now add a loft, fenced area or a platform to the front wall, we experience "roof clipping".
https://i.imgur.com/z37KJEi.png
This occurs NOT because of platforms, but because the upper floor is now divided into 3 rooms: an E-shaped room around the fenced/platform areas, the fenced area and the platform. See that EACH of these rooms has at least one not-full wall! EA made it so that roofs do NOT disappear when a room is constructed with not-full walls. On the one hand, this allows you to create fenced roofs, on the other hand, it makes building with fences and platforms inside a living hell.
By replacing the hipped roof with a half-hipped roof and using shift + drag on the eaves inside the house, this roof piece does not clip anymore. However, there are no half round pieces to work with :'(
https://i.imgur.com/Vm3v9qn.png
So what are the options when you can't build your roof AROUND the floor?
If you build The fenced areas/lofts/platforms INSIDE the walled room, the issue is much less present. Why? the outer walls are forming the entire floor enclosed in full walls, so no clipping. The places where the roof DOES still clip is INSIDE of the fenced area/loft/platform if they overlap with the roof placement. (Again, a roof will show inside any room that is enclosed in anything else than all full walls).
https://i.imgur.com/n9eFNAs.png
Then, how did I fix the fenced area that touches the wall? (NOT a loft, just a fenced area!). You can draw nearly the entire fence, leave one spot open. Draw a one-spot piece of fence and add it in between the open spot. This will make all of the fences separate walls, they won't form a room (hence, avoiding the clipping issue). Because it is not a room though, you won't be able to remove the floor in that spot and create a loft... Also, if you create another room on the same floor, the game recalculates everything and will turn this thing into a room again, so best to leave finishing those for last. So far I haven't had any issues with it becoming a room again when uploading to gallery/leaving the lot or placing it elsewhere.
https://i.imgur.com/zgXPsk2.png
But I do want a loft/fenced area/platform touching the outside wall really badly?
The only way to avoid clipping of roof part that can't be built otherwise (like round pieces) is to build a fully walled room around this roof piece and have the loft/fenced area/platform outside of this area. :'( This means no lofts 'behind' a round porch against the front wall, sorry, you will have to move it against the back wall (and enclose the roof in front in a room!) or to the middle of the room, far enough from the inside part of the roof not to clip.
https://i.imgur.com/bEZ4C9Z.png
How am I sure this is the issue and not the loft or whatever? Look at this "workaround': don't use it, it doesn't last!
Take the area with the loft in it and use the custom room tool to conect the corners of the floor: https://i.imgur.com/AumqjXB.png
The area is fully walled (no roof clipping), but still has a piece of missing floor in it, so lofts are not the issue here. This will automatically recalculate anytime you leave the lot and replace the floor, so this is NOT a lasting fix. https://i.imgur.com/bp5QNTa.png
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