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Chateau des Labyrinthes
aquilifer
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I wanted to play around with ideas on mansard roofing. I ended up with a chateau. The hedge mazes in front are also perfect for any aspiring behavioral psychologist looking to upgrade from rats to experimentation on children in the neighborhood.
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It is a very nice home, both the exterior design and the interior ! The roofing is very great!
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I love your architectural part, especially with the use of wall patterns and mansard roofing. It is great that you produce a tutorial of it. Thank you so much! I'm going to use it in my future build. Anyway, your landscaping is very awesome too! I especially like your hedge maze at each sides. And your interior, classy and beautiful! I like the use of Victorian furnishing, suits in Medieval-themed building very well.
I love it! I already added this to my faves.
Much of the roofing is set up on top of the second floor, then rises up higher than the third floor ceiling. When a roof piece rises up higher than the ceiling of the next floor, any part of that roofing above the next floor will be visible while on the lower floor. Specifically, all roofing is drawn in half-square segments. You will see, for example, that if you try to put curvature on something like a gable which is 2 squares wide, the roofing will bend at every half-square, giving you a gable with 4 different slopes (one for each half square over the full 2 squares). If part of the half-square of a roofing segment is above the next ceiling, then the whole segment of that roofing will be visible and may bleed down graphically into the floor below. As a consequence, the roofing which extends from the top of the second floor up beyond the ceiling of the third floor may encroach down from the ceiling of the third floor into the living area by up to a half a square.
I know that may be complicated, but I hope that's understandable. I could possibly have avoided the problem by breaking up the roofing so that I had half gables above the second floor which lined up with the rest of the mansard roofing on the third floor. That would allow me not to have any roofing pieces break that third floor ceiling barrier. But it would also have totally messed up the outside appearance, because I wouldn't have been able to get the same slope on the steep part of the roof. Instead, when this sort of thing happens, I usually opt for a lightly furnished third floor with big items like the microscope that are easy to use even if the graphics of the roof get in the way. Basically, I consider this a two-story house with an attic, and only furnished the attic at all because I didn't want it to seem unfinished. If people want to use the attic, the space is there, and playing with walls down eliminates the roofing that bleeds into the living space.
Goodness, no. Though I'm also the sort of person who appreciates criticisms, particularly from people whose buildings I respect. I was very proud to have overtaken you for "most downloaded museum" last week, and it looks like I may get "most favorited museum" soon, too. I wouldn't have been so proud if your work were terrible or if I didn't respect your opinion.
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