VS Roofing Mod

Vintage Story Roofing Mod (Successor to OneRoof)

 

Gridless crafting and build system. Build roofs with vanilla resources, starting with a frame and adding materials to complete.

See in-game handbook for construction steps (recipes).

Frames

Early game 'stick' frames are created by placing a stick while holding a cattails, flax fibers or papyrus in the offhand. 

Later you can use boards and a hammer in the offhand to create slightly bigger timber frames.

Roofs

All vanila roof variants are supported with some small caveats.

• • Wooden roofs don't have the outer corner diagonal edging.
  • Sod only supports 1x1 2x1 and 3x1 slopes.
  • Thatch only supports 1x2 1x1 2x1 and 3x1 slopes.

 

See the handbook for all the extra roof variants.

Building

The building follows the same principles as OneRoof with some minor tweaks.

When holding the frame resources in hand accessing 'toolmodes' (F-key) will give you access to standard, eave and ridge blocks. You can also access 'Manual Configuration' to specify the slope and side eaves (half roofs).

The default building mode (Auto) should suffice for most situations - however there are some instances where you will need to use the manual mode to achieve the desired results.

• Slopes are inferred by the placement of the frames. Two frames stacked on top in the same direction will become a 1x2 slope, similarly two frames placed in a row will become a  2x1 slope.
• Corners are inferred by the perpendicular orientation either in front or behind the frame, inner or outer respecitvely.
  • Note that outer corners can't and won't support different slopes intersecting (inners do).

 

Roofing materials are added to the roof by interacting with the block (right click) with the required resources in-hand (and inventory where required) while holding the Shift key.

The 'fill' is added by interacting (right click) and holding the Ctrl key. To remove the fill - hold Ctrl key while breaking the block.

The fill block is chiselable. You can use a wrench to rotate the texture(s).

Protip: You can rotate the block - and add the material to it (using ctrl+click) to get multiple block rotations in a single chisel block.

 

You can also "Lock/Unlock" a block using the hammer (held in hotbar slot). This wil prevent any changes from additional roof placements.

Video Guides

Construction Video Guide
Framing Video Guide

Inner corners

When placing inner corners typically you need to run the two intersecting roofs all the way along - avoiding any 'zig-zag' pattern. See first image below.
The second image shows a more complicated example but the general idea is the same. 
The colours represent the direction of the roof (sort of). So in the first one the yellow roof pieces are all in the vertical(ish) plane and the green on the horizontal.

           

Mod Compatibility

These mods have compatibility patches - I'll do my best to keep them updated.

• Wildcraft trees
• Bricklayers
• Vanilla Varnished
• Conquest Texture Pack
• BTRO Fuels
• Floral Zones
• Clayworks
• Tailors Delight
• Stringsense
• Biodiversity Trees
• Primitive Survival (Cordage)

 

QP Chisel doesn't work with these roof blocks.

Configuration

See VSRoofingConfig.json in ModConfig directory. Any configuration options will be added here.

• FallThroughFrames (Default true) - Setting this to false will make collision boxes large when frame only.
• SimpleSelectionBoxesWhileBuilding (Default true) - Setting this false will make the selection return more accurate shapes for bare frames
• ChiselBlockAlwaysInsulates (Default false) - Setting this to true will make any filled block fully insulate (in all directions). By default the code uses the same logic as vanilla chisell blocks (which generally results in uninsulated). 

FAQ

• How do I build a sod roof?
  You need to add boards as part of the roofing materials, i.e. in addition to the frame.
• Can I use this for glasshouse?
  Yes, roofs with glass panes (Added as a material not a chisel fill!) will count towards the glasshouse.
  
• Memory Leaks? Performance?
  I have done basic testing with several thousand roof blocks using dotnet-counters and can confirm this mod is stable, quite confident no memory leaks at all. The inital loading is very fast as it only adds four block variants. Lots of caching where required to help with cpu performance. if you have any problems - Its likey due to another mod or an interaciton between this mod and another.
  - Note that all my testing was done with a server, client setup  (but on localhost so no latency)
• The roofs are ? Blocks
  This indicates the mod is not loaded at all - you can validate it by looking for the entry in the handbook. If this happens imediately terminate the game (DO NOT SAVE IT) - e.g. Alt-f4. When updating always ensure it has succesfully loaded.

 

Me updating this mod page like any of you ****** will read it... 

 

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Support?

Please direct any good intentions for supporting this mod to the doctor here: https://buymeacoffee.com/awmedicalvideos.


Man i really hope the snow bugs are done once and for all.