There is a little more to building a roof besides placing the right piece or pieces. A little later on, we'll have a look at creating some different roof types. Another trick, is to look at buildings in the real world and try to visualise how it would be made using the sections available in the game. Have a look at pre-built houses in the game and study the way the roof is made, most often by combining several pieces. More advanced roofing consists of a combination of different roof pieces. The simplest combined roofs consist of just two pieces of the same roof type. We will often have to combine different pieces to get a more realistic looking roof and one that is visually pleasing. An empty room on the floor above together with a wall trim makes an interesting roof Combine Roof PiecesĪ lot of buildings are not squares or rectangles and the roof cannot be made using just one piece of roof. Once there is a room on the upper level, you can add floor covering and a wall trim to the outer edge. This room needs to be the shape and size of the desired roof, so you may need to combine several empty rooms together. To add a flat roof to a building, you will need to add an empty room on the upper level. A hipped and a half hipped roof Flat roofĪlthough the game does not actually offer us a flat roof option, we can still achieve that look if desired. Half of a full hipped roof with only three roof pieces, the half hipped is similar to the half gable and useful for butting up against a wall. On a square building, the four pieces will meet at a point in the middle and on a rectangular roof, the two longer pieces will meet along a ridge with a smaller piece at each end. The hipped roof has four sections of roof. A half gable can be placed against the upper wall.

The half gable is useful where a lower level of the building extends out from the upper level. Half GableĪs the name suggests, it is half of a full gable with only one roof section. Gabled RoofĪ basic roof, the gable can form the basis of many different roofs and is characterized by a triangular section of wall on two ends with two sloped roof sections. For now, we have eight choices of roof pieces made up of four different pieces and then a diagonal version of each one. With the base game, we are somewhat limited in the available roof pieces, but as the game progresses, more choice may be added. Many builders falter when it comes to building a roof on their Sim houses, but it needn't be a chore. The Sims 4 Building Tutorials: Making Nice Roofs by Norma Blackburn Click to Enlarge.

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