Quick Guide to Small Roof Extensions
By Anneva.
I wanted to share a little technique I figured out while trying to see how to get a bit of a sticking out roof piece, without the large block of floor underneath it. This can only be used on small sections, but I thought it looked great for a small porch or doorway roof.
Place a small building piece sticking out where you want the floating porch roof. Draw path under the 3 exposed sides of the block. Nudge the path closer and closer to wall to get the door flat against the original wall. Play with the height of the arch to your desire.
If you want to use a placeable door, nudge the path even closer to the main building until the door “sinks” behind the wall, then place a door. If you want to adjust the door later, you just need to move the porch piece away to access it.
If the “joins” where the two blocks intersect appear on the wall, you can just adjust the positioning minutely and they disappear again. I also thought it looked cute with two small wooden fence posts to look like support.
The narrower the piece, the further away from the wall you can pull it without support. And if you make it wider a column will spawn in the middle, so you can combat this by bringing it closer to the wall. I haven’t experimented with height yet. I’d love to see your results and improvements to the technique!
With the door created by the path through the wall.
With a placeable door made from a window dragged to the bottom. Sometimes you just gotta keep fiddling with the dimensions a bit to make the front column disappear!
This what I mean about the “edges” that can show up where the blocks intersect, just nudge it a bit and they disappear again.
Adding wooden support columns.
This is the widest I’ve managed to get it without a support column popping up, the wider it is, the shallower it needs to be (the front closer to the building).
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