Video Tutorials On Roofing

It would actually be really easy if we could have fourth story walls. I'm also a completely NoCC kind of a builder, but I can see using a custom roof decoration for that, like the two Spanish style ones currently in game, since it's not really roofing. Still, I have some thoughts on how to replicate that sort of shape. I will try it out and get back to you.

I'm still around. I'm just hoping for some new building elements for inspiration, and meanwhile working through Dragon Age. Any building I start lately just looks like a version of something I've already built.

@BryonyRae Thoughts on this? Clearly I've adapted it somewhat, but this is essentially what I had in mind when thinking it would be somewhat easy to do this on multiple floors. I've preserved all the lines as in the original roof, but incorporated it into the third floor, and used the decorative dome piece to get around needing another full story for the uppermost right angles. I'm actually thinking of a much more complicated version right now which wouldn't need the dome piece at all, but I wanted to show this to you first.

That's a really good approximation, @aquilifer! Helps me see where I was going wrong too. Yeah, I'd really rather not use that dome, so I'm curious about your more complicated version when/if you have a chance. Glad you're still around! I've been playing a lot of Dragon Age too. :) I'm slower than a snail getting through it, but I'm savoring it because it's the kind of game I'm going to be sad to finish. Anyway, thanks so much for taking a look at it!

@BryonyRae This still isn't a super complex version, because I've kept it on multiple floors again, but this eliminates the dome. I used a combination of a half hip and a half gable with the eaves pulled back for the top. Matching the edges of the two pieces requires some playing around with their heights, too. The longer you make the half gable, the flatter you can make the top of it by curvature, but then you have to cover up the curvature somehow. The second picture shows an unfinished example of a gable used for covering up the curves. It would also give you room to play around with adding some dormers on the third floor, jutting out of the gable.

I had to widen the base by one square on each side, as well, to accommodate the topmost roofing parts, because the half hip needed to be wider in order to make it rounded instead of pointy.

New tutorials on conical roofing, zig-zags, and diamond roofing patterns have been added. See the first post for the links.

Oh wow that roof looks very impressive

I'm bumping to preserve this thread