Roofing idea that I don't know how to name [with examples pictures]

I've never actually thought of that before but I think that's a great idea. I would definitely appreciate more diverse tools and styles for us to build with.

You want to be able to make rooms without the roofs clipping into them and possibly rooms within roofs? Sounds pretty cool.

there's going to be octagonal roofs coming with Cats&Dogs EP

Needs some programming so game knows that ceiling is lower, but other than that, it is a good idea.

"Tazzykiki;c-15988974" wrote:
You want to be able to make rooms without the roofs clipping into them and possibly rooms withing roofs? Sounds pretty cool.

@Tazzykiki Well, that is the basic of my idea. But I'll try to explain it a little bit simpler.

http://i.imgur.com/rlrtiQf.jpg
In this image you see this house. It has the shortest wall height. It has the width of seven tiles. I put a gabled roof over it which also has the width of seven tiles.

http://i.imgur.com/HpxzqLU.jpg
Another house. It has the shortest wall height. It has the width of seven tiles. The roof however has the width of nine tiles.

http://i.imgur.com/Q3uMM0l.jpg
Here is the same house. It has the shortest wall height. It has the width of seven tiles. The roof however has the width of nine tiles. But I want the one-tile half gables on the sides to be gone. This way you could have a roof with the same room of nine tiles on a ground floor of seven tiles.

http://i.imgur.com/0iaXnBC.jpg
In this house I recreated how that should look. But it isn't possible in The Sims 4. I had to give this house a medium wall height. I want the ground floor to be short. Then I want the roof of the first floor to sit on the half height of a short wall.

"EgonVM;c-15990805" wrote:
Needs some programming so game knows that ceiling is lower, but other than that, it is a good idea.

Yes! Exactly! The ceiling of the medium-height ground floor should be lowered to a short-height ground floor.

"NickSims;c-15992469" wrote:

"Tazzykiki;c-15988974" wrote:
You want to be able to make rooms without the roofs clipping into them and possibly rooms withing roofs? Sounds pretty cool.

@Tazzykiki Well, that is the basic of my idea. But I'll try to explain it a little bit simpler.

http://i.imgur.com/rlrtiQf.jpg
In this image you see this house. It has the shortest wall height. It has the width of seven tiles. I put a gabled roof over it which also has the width of seven tiles.

http://i.imgur.com/HpxzqLU.jpg
Another house. It has the shortest wall height. It has the width of seven tiles. The roof however has the width of nine tiles.

http://i.imgur.com/Q3uMM0l.jpg
Here is the same house. It has the shortest wall height. It has the width of seven tiles. The roof however has the width of nine tiles. But I want the one-tile half gables on the sides to be gone. This way you could have a roof with the same room of nine tiles on a ground floor of seven tiles.

http://i.imgur.com/0iaXnBC.jpg
In this house I recreated how that should look. But it isn't possible in The Sims 4. I had to give this house a medium wall height. I want the ground floor to be short. Then I want the roof of the first floor to sit on the half height of a short wall.

"EgonVM;c-15990805" wrote:
Needs some programming so game knows that ceiling is lower, but other than that, it is a good idea.

Yes! Exactly! The ceiling of the medium-height ground floor should be lowered to a short-height ground floor.

ah, okay. Makes sense.

This would be awesome!
I've also been annoyed when I wanted to create something similar to this with an attic-type bedroom but the walls of the roof doesn't register as a room and it's a mess. This type of tool would be very useful and open up many new building styles.

Maybe it could be done with a special sub-category in the roof tool where segments of a roof can be placed on a wall (almost like placing a window on a wall) that then acts accordingly for the aesthetic.

I really wish there was a way to do this so that I could build my actual home in TS4 :blush:

Okay guys. I actually managed to do this roofing idea in the game because of a bug! I made a tutorial about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD_uCS64qto

(I'm not trying to necropost, just wanted to share this with the people who liked the original idea I posted.)

I'm working on this:

http://i.imgur.com/7aFVRDR.jpg hang on I'll get into the game and edit.
it's actually easy!

It's Called Second Empire and Most of my builds are built in this style now.

https://orig00.deviantart.net/13ae/f/2018/119/e/c/screen_shot_2018_04_29_at_6_27_18_pm_by_mphattyboi-dca73zy.png

It works best with tall wall heights if you want to add those trims to frame the build better.

just showing the roofing 1x (however wide the wall below is) pull the piece of roofing all the way up!
https://orig00.deviantart.net/1af2/f/2018/119/d/9/screen_shot_2018_04_29_at_6_27_40_pm_by_mphattyboi-dca73zm.png

as for the tower section is what I'm working on...

it may look tacky from above... and because I'm still trying to decide on color schemes, but structure wise, and in tab mode on the ground at sim level it looks pretty good.

https://orig00.deviantart.net/2fbe/f/2018/119/c/0/screen_shot_2018_04_29_at_6_24_03_pm_by_mphattyboi-dca7409.png