Alternate Quartered Logs

[matnyt]

This is not very important, but it bugs me enough to want to mention it hehe. First, a quick disclaimer: there are probably many ways log cabins are made historically, so it is likely that the way it is in the game is normal, here I will be looking specifically at how log cabins were made in Norway (although I guess it is broadly applicable in the nordics at least) and it would not suprise me if these techniques were used in many places around the world. I am only familiar with Norway so I will be talking from a norwegian perspective.

If you look at many log cabins constructed in real life, or more broadly houses constructed by stacking logs (I have included some pictures below), it does not match how the quartered logs are implemented. In Norway at least, the most commonly used method for such buildings is called "lafting". I have found no good translation of it into english. the technique is still in use today, but mostly for traditional buildings from what ive seen and found.  Historically this was the main way to build in large parts of Norway, if not all of Norway (although I am not qualified to make that statement). The technique is centered on notching logs to make them fit together when we stack them. It was common to use the corewood of old pine trees, this was because the corewood is much more waterrepellant and antibacterial compared to the outer layers of wood. The corewood only exists in older pines, from one source I found, it starts forming after 15-40 years of growth. Especially pines which grew slowly were preferred, such pines were commonplace in inland regions of Norway.

Younger wood, and for instance spruce, were also used although it was mostly from what I have read used in buildings which were not meant to last for too long. 

 

The main point here is not this historical treatment, although I find it interesting so I included it. Is it possible to implement an alternate type of the quartered logs which would produce results as shown in the schematic picture above? It need not be very complicated, there is just one small tweak which would make this arrangement possible.  Below is an image of how I typically replicate this effect in the game. I find this adequate, but, a small change could make it better. Notice in the schematic and in the images of log houses above, that the centerline of the logs is not the same before and after the corner, they are staggered by one half the width of the logs. All we would need to add to achieve this effect, is a retextured version of the quartered logs where the texture is moved down slightly so that we have one whole log in the middle, and one half log above and below. 

This is a very small change, and would essentially be a small quality of life improvement hehe. Of course, it would be cool to have an actual system for proper "lafting", but this would probably be quite difficult and time consuming to implement. And we can achieve the same effect using the quartered logs

I realize while typing this, that this seems very doable through modding, and I am tempted to try and make this on my own.

[Krougal]

Yeah, I think if you used the model editor to make a new shape and assign it for corners that would work.