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Adding Room Steps, Wainscoting and Roofs
I've done some searching without results. I'd like to know 3 things: 1.) Is there an easy way to make an 8" step up or down within a room. For example - having a step up or down from the Dining Room to the Kitchen? 2.) Is there an easy way to create either plain or box-type wainscoting for a room? I'm assuming for the chair-rail you would just make a narrow box at a given elevation. 3.) Is there a way to add a roof (such as an asphalt shingle) to a house design without it making the house file too large? Any help regarding these topics would be greatly appreciated. Thanx.
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Re: Adding Room Steps, Wainscoting and Roofs
1) Using a shape as a "floor" is one way. An intermediate level (elevation 8" above the lower) is another. You should find more about this in the forum, for instance:4785 Room Elevation & Curved Boundaries and 5507 Raised floor 2) If you use a recent edition of SH3D, walls have a baseboard option - which can work as a simple wainscoting. But there is also the possibility to use textures or other models - try a forum search for wainscoting. But narrow box (or double wall) can also do the trick. 3) Yes, a roofs do not have to increase file size by much. The roof construction is pretty simple, and a good looking texture does not have to be big at all. For instance, some simplistic roof files in SourceForge3d models 333 are very small. And you could easily get away with a very small graphic file as roof texture - and it would still look good. In fact, there is not that much to gain from using large graphic files, 512x512 pixels will usually do.
