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Is there a way to create one’s own proper roof types and variants for the building wizard?
Some of the existing options almost function but the negatives are blocked and such.

Even getting acces to the xml for these and changing the values doesn’t always allow creator’s wizard to recognized those inputs.  Some are so close but still require tweaks.

Unfortunately we do not have any extensibility built into the roof tool. (Or any tool that makes roofs). Even the xml you mention is really just storing the parameters to create the known roofs. I know some users have found that there is more information stored in the xml than some tools expose. However this is purely due to running out of time before we could update all the tools that make roofs to take advantage of additional parameters. If you have some types of roofs that the tool cannot make, please send us some pictures so we can update the tool to make those roof types.

thanks Chris,

What I am looking for is a variant on the multi-gable.  You can force the current variant to have a “2nd” (or more)  floor on the roof.  This is able to be flat by forcing some of the controllable values to 0.  {pitch fascia ...)  The two options on this allows this 2nd floor (stepped back) to be be in length or width. 

what I am looking for is to mod this in style in two aspects. 

Allow the user to control the amount of step back -currently the segments perform this but add subsequent steps upwards too- {need these to be separately controlled)  so that this can be stepped back on the roof from all sides.

allow the user to independantly control the step back on any side.

So:  the idea is to have a large building that can step up the side of a mountain. Hence the “back” of the building is taller then the front, but steps upwards in contolled floor heights (currently I can only step up towards the middle of the building)  (Think of terraces going up a mountain or ghettos on am mountain side in Brazil maybe)

it could also be used to allow apartment buildings to have stuff on the roof - restos, stair well door exits, aiir conditioner units ... 

So essentially Im looking for boxes on boxes on the roof of a building, which can be used as either building geometry (stepped back multi stories)  or as clutter on the roof (antenna or pool shacks)  -but all via the xml

I guess it is really being able to control the buildings stories - flat or stepped back or out? So you could have a stepped in commercial level at the street level - starting to dream now ....