Best way to handle intersecting peaked roofs?

[Eileen Fellstein]

I'm looking for suggestions on the best way to handle intersecting roof sections where all sections are peaked and shingled. If you don't know what I mean, just visualise a bilding that is oriented like a cross. The two branches that go off would have to have their peaked roof pieces meet the angle of the other peaked roof section that is 90 degrees to it.

It's a very common style in real life building but seems to be quite a head scratcher here.

The only way I can think of short of getting into custom sculpties is to frame the entire roof with beams then hodge-podge in the shingles after, using triangular pieces where the intersections are. That could get really messy and also would be a nightmare of lining up the shingle texture properly from piece to piece.

[Ciaran Laval]

This shouldn't be a problem if I'm hearing you right, but you'll want to make the underneath of one of the intersecting rooves transparent.

[Rolig Loon]

Unless you want to have the underside of the roof exposed, it's trivial.  Just make your two intersecting roofs and set them at 90 degrees.  All done.  You can do it with two cut prims total, or 4 if you want to be fancy about it.

 

[Ciaran Laval]

Yeah that's what I've always done, but the underside was the ceiling so I set one of them to trasnparent and that seems to work.

The actual intersecting roof top section works fine with no real issues I've noticed.