So I have always been absolutely terrible at roofs in Sims 2
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 good basic tutorials? What I am mainly looking for are tutorials that are about making sure the roofs that are not on the top floor don't interfere with internal rooms.
To illustrate my point:
this is a house that was build for Sims 3 that I would like to re-make in my game. It has 3 floors, but a lot of the top floor is covered with a roof. I can achieve a similar visual effect(still not perfect), but only with the pieces of the roof clipping inside the rooms so obviously there is less "useful" space there... I know that I can use the special pieces that came with M&G, but I don't like the fact that I can't see behind them
A lot of the tutorials that I've found that sound like they would be perfect for me are no longer online
So if anyone knows of any that are still up or is good at making roofs, please share your sacred knowledge
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Using the tool to change the height of roofs can help sometimes with your roof bleeding into a room, but not always. You just have to experiement with what works now and what doesn't. But not adding tile before placing a roof like on that top tower floor is one reason.
Edit:
okay I made a small Victorian on a 20x20 and this is what I discovered the half-hipped roof isn't a problem( which I think is the name of the roof type you'll be using)...yes it will clip through if you have to drag it into the house (which you will if you want it to look connected) but you'll only see the clip through if you have the walls completely up and it doesn't keep you from putting things there for the sims to use, you'll just have to delete the single wall it creates first. To get the roof to line up with the wall you'll just have to adjust the roof height and I found that 68 was perfect.
The octagonal roof isn't too tricky either you'll just want to place it one square away from where you actually want it otherwise it'll have quite the over hang.
The dormers however, will be extremely tricky I tried adding some to mine but I just didn't like it. They were the same height as the normal wall so they were even with the roof and I just didn't like it but my Victorian could just be too small to make them work. You'll just have to play around with yours and see.
hope this helps
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 ). 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?
http://web.archive.org/web/20080903003539/http://mikeinside.modthesims2.com:80/tutorials.html
ETA: Particular this one about placing a roof over a roof. To stop bleeding/clipping
http://web.archive.org/web/20080903032648/http://mikeinside.modthesims2.com:80/building/roof/index.html