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Title: Rant: I hate Maxis roofs Post by: croiduire on 2006 August 15, 20:38:07 Why does the slope have to be the same for all roofs on a lot? Maxis provides the roofslopeangle tool, they have a lock existing roofs function...why should it be impossible to have a gentle slope for a porch roof and a more typical angle for the main roof of the house? Growl!!
Or, if I'm being ignorant, can someone please tell me what the work around is? Uh, besides sticking with flat roofed adobe and viga, please! Title: Re: Rant: I hate Maxis roofs Post by: Rascal on 2006 August 15, 22:43:25 You are not the only one who is frustrated by this! I don't know of any way to get round it other than using floor tiles and the constrain elevation cheat to shape them. I use these veranda roof pieces http://forums.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=133487 (http://forums.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=133487) on some houses, but they aren't really suitable for modern homes. If you like these look for recolours - there are a few at MTS2. Apparently the ep that is not happening and must not be named will introduce diagonal roofs (yay!) but no mention of differing roof heights.
Title: Re: Rant: I hate Maxis roofs Post by: Ellatrue on 2006 August 16, 03:24:05 The build section of MTS2 has some good tutorials for how to make a variably sloped roof with floor tiles.
Title: Re: Rant: I hate Maxis roofs Post by: LynnMar on 2006 August 18, 02:27:08 I hate them too, I must be building challenged, I have used auto roofs since I got the sims2 and I don't know how to build a basement either or make steps on the outside of your house. rolf
Title: Re: Rant: I hate Maxis roofs Post by: Mizz Rose Bud on 2006 August 18, 21:41:07 hmmm ... have you tried to flatten the ground, place the roof and then "slope" the ground ... with the boolProp constrainFloorElevation cheat ???
Quote and I don't know how to build a basement either or make steps on the outside of your house Now that is dead easy .... what tutorial did you follow, cos´ it shouldn´t be a challenge at allRose Title: Re: Rant: I hate Maxis roofs Post by: MistyBlue on 2006 August 18, 22:03:06 I despise the roof limitations! I know how to do the floor as a roof thing, but imho, it looks tacky. I don't like it. There is some really simple things that maxis should have just included, but didn't.
Title: Re: Rant: I hate Maxis roofs Post by: Avalikia on 2006 August 22, 23:18:47 This might be a little belated, but I just came across this tutorial (http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=181811) that seems to allow you to make roofs of different slopes. I didn't try it, but it looks like it would work.
Title: Re: Rant: I hate Maxis roofs Post by: MistyBlue on 2006 August 23, 01:59:57 I tried that before. In my game, the angle reverts when you exit and reload the lot. It's okay if you don't mind doing that everytime you enter the lot, but, eh, it's hardly worth it.
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