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These tools create roof sections that look like they have been cut in half.
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We'll have a look at how to create a mansard roof on smaller areas a little later on. Anything smaller than that size and it will act the same as a hipped roof. The roof will only be a mansard roof if the area to cover is at least 7 x 7.
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The hipped roof doesn't need a lot of explanation, except to say that placed on a square build, the four sides will meet in a point and on a rectangular build, there will be a ridge along the length. This is a normal gable (on the left) and a tall gable, both built on identical square rooms. Here is an example of the normal gable and the tall gable. Which roof faces which way, seems to be random, so if you have a square area you want a gable roof on and you want the ends facing a particular way, you will need to just try them out to see which one works that way for that block. In the case of the area being a square, you will find that one will always have the gable ends to the sides and the other will always have the ends facing the front and back. The tall gable will always make the shorter wall the side. The normal gable tool will take the longer side of the area and always make this the side of the roof. There is one difference that I have noticed that can be used to a builder's advantage. These two tools do much the same thing except that the tall gable is, um, taller! Regardless, the pitch of any roof can be made taller or shorter using the pitch tool (more on that later) The tall gable will not come down quite as low as the normal gable and it will be taller when pulled up to its maximum height. You will get a better idea of the pagoda roofs if they are off the ground. We don't need walls to simply look, as you can build a roof on the ground. Let's have a play with the different roof types and see what they do. I have often forgotten to disable it, then had problems with not being able to do something while building, only to go up a level and find that there is a piece of roof that is preventing what I want to do. Auto roofs being on by default, in my opinion, is a bit of a nuisance. The first thing we need to do is open up the roof tool and disable auto roofs. Later on we'll have a look at building certain roof types.
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Sometimes this aspect of building is overlooked, often maybe from lack of knowledge on using the tools to their best advantage.īefore we begin, we should get to know a little about the various roofing tools available. I thought I would do a tutorial for using the roof tool when building. The Sims 3 Home Building Tutorials Roofs: Building a Better Roof By Norma Blackburn Build and Edit in The Sims 3