roof tiles

[only3d]

hi evrybody

 

ive been trying 2 create a roof with "italian style" tiles and evrything goes well

beside 2 things, so..

1- how do i create a seam with a tile instead of just tiles 'bashing' 2 eachother

2- how do i make a nicer connection between the tiles and wood beam which is not perfect

 

as always- tnx in advance

[AJLynn]

You can model the tiles that cover the seams on most roofs of this type - a Google image search for italian roof tile gets a few useful hits, for example http://gladdingmcbean.paccoast.com/default.jsp?InstRegionProdLineID=10&ProductID=65&IRPLProdMenuID=232 - the 15-1 link on the page has a drawing.

 

For the lower edge, I think the profile should be orthagonal within the UCS of the tile itself, not vertical to the ground, and there can be a gutter under it, but this is another fairly standard detail you can find on the web.

 

The rest of it looks good - but usually these things come in mixed shades of terra cotta, not green.

[bigroo]

There is quite a good tutorial at http://www.cgarchitect.com/resources/tutorials/smoke3d/tutorial4.asp by smoke3dstudio which may offer a solution.