How to create cross gabled multilevel roof

Lets's start. We will modify this next cubes. Let's call them upper cube and lower cube.

Its important to have facade measures devided by 4. I used 8 tiles and 12 tiles for facade lengths. And I have lower cube little bit shorter because one tile from each side will hide the sloped wall texture. I used 8 tiles and 10 tiles width.

Let's paint flat roofs. I used the textured pattern. But you can paint it solid.

If you want it to have some pattern, you should understand all the eaves and apex you have. Try to predict a map of roof before it will be rised in next steps

Repeat the same for second lower cube

Here is roof map that we would reach

I used low fences to decorate the apexes. So I designed those on all apex lines

It is also important to finish it before roof will be rised because then it will be hard to reach it

You could paint outside. This is not very important to do it right now. But I did and this how our boxes looks when decorated

Let's look inside those cubes. On the 3rd floor we will have a lot of unaccessible space dut to CFE'd ceilinds. So you could cut the lower cube with 1-tiled narrow space. It will become useless at the end. Other spaces called rooms will be accessible

As for the 4th floor. Depending on roof structure and size of dummy cubes it could become unaccessible or partly accessible for sims.

Now we move to CFE works. First of all you need to turn infampous Constrainfloorelevation cheat on. Let's prepare the ground nearby for heights we would like to have. I used stairs to lower ground in two zons near by one and two modular stairs lengths.

Then let's remove stairs and place there foundations which will flatten ground in one tile around

We should repeat the full height of the house so let's build two 1x1 tile columns on those foundations

Ok now we should flatten all the roofs with flatten tool when using height from lower column.

Done! Now our roof is lower

It is important to have one tile line from each side of resulted cubes accessible. They may or may not appear depending on placement of columns. I have some unaccessible tiles here

So I use any floor tile (I used ceiling paint) and place it on each tile I want to be accessible. Once I finish, I will use Ctrl+Shift to remove white tiles and repeat the same for upper cube.

Next you should rise the middle height repositoried on higher column to create a bulge shape.

This is how it should look at the end

Shame on me I made a mistake that will remain till the end. I have writing tutorial when noticed that. The next screenshot shows the mistake I made on upper cube so one slope vertex sunk into lower height. The roof on lower cube has been created properly.

If you will look 3rd floor, you'll see why we actually cut those 1-tile narrow space. Since there it becomes unaccessible for sims. And here is CFE'd wall edges on shared wall between cubes where the wall texture comes diagonal. Since we used different sized cubes as roof base it won't be that visible from the facade.

4th Floor is currently unaccessible but later we'll change it.

After you finish you could probably delete columns, but I prefer to let is stay till the very end in case something will wrong. Anyways. We won't use those columns in future.

And now we are creating apexes. Use wall tool and draw the line when you want to have apexes holding Shift button. Those walls should be right behind fenced lines we designed on roof tiles.

The result will be the grid like this on 3rd floor

Let's repeat it on 4th floor and make the grid there

We are lamost finished and already see two cross-gabled roofs

But. what the hell is that? It is unpropriate

To make those gravel piece flat we should to draw the room downstairs with room tool. Room walls should be placed right under the fences lines again

And here it is! The flat roof

Omce you delete the walls inside those room, then you can have clean space accessible for sims possibly used for placing staircase or spiral stairs to reach the rooftop. Either you can leave it empty.

So here is the result. And it's the end of tutorial. Now you can turn off CFE cheat and move to another task

Thank you for your attention.
Regards Vic ^_^
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