Methods for building roofs?

[AbsolvedOfGuilt]

What methods do you guys usually use for building roofs? When I say "methods", I mean the actual techniques for building the roof, not the style or material of the roof. For example, you can choose between a few different methods, such as microblock chiseling the entire roof, using the vanilla roof tiles, or using the roof tiles added by the One-Roof mod.

What techniques do you prefer? What do you think the upsides and downsides to your preferred technique are? And how do you highlight the strengths and mask the weaknesses of the method you usually use? 

I recently decided to experiment with chiseling shingle blocks. I usually just use the One-Roof mod because I think it looks the best (much better and more varied than vanilla roof tiles, might I add) and with much less effort compared to using solely chiseling. The roof itself isn't meant to be anything crazy, and although it isn't my greatest or most interesting work, I can't help but wonder why I wouldn't just use the One-Roof mod instead in the future. It just looks... fine? I think my usual method would have looked better, but it isn't like the one I chose is holding the build back or anything. I could go back and use smaller chisel settings to potentially give the roof more of a sloped appearance, but I can't see how that would make it look any better.

I would like to think it depends on the situation you find yourself in, though. Maybe fully chiseled roofs are better when a conical or rounded shape is desired? 

[7embre]

As for one-roof, I play vanilla for the most part and am trying to avoid using block-adding mods.

For smaller roofs, I prefer using regular roof pieces. I hate how big the roof looks on bigger builds, so I just avoid building them big enough for that. Small roof sections are viable to do with chiseling, such as overhangs above windows or entrance.

I also make chiseled roofs for irregular shapes — conical, as you mentioned. It's on my recent wip build, might as well check it out on a builds section. My only concern about chiseled roofs is that the snow builds up horribly on them, that's why I'm trying to use regular roofs as much as possible, or stick to chisel only on flatter sections (less that 45°).

Plus, I always tend to make the roof extend a bit from the wall line, to break the blocky look. What you may also be curious about, is how people handle roofs from the inside — is it just upside-down stairs? Maybe a bit more complex chiseled pieces or using support beams to make it look like some actual rafters?

Hope this helps.

[Aksha]

I use both vanilla tiles and carved tiles as roofing material. I often combine both if the roof has several slope planes. I often paint the edges of the roofs with tiles of a different type. To avoid the massiveness of the roof over a large building, which 7embre spoke about, I "break" one roof into a combination of several at different levels.