Buildings: Walls, Doors & Roofs

Draw walls, cut in doors and windows, then put a roof on top. It all lives in the Buildings tool.

Click Buildings in the bottom toolbar.
Click the ground to drop corners. Double click to finish.
Open Doors or Windows, pick a style, click a wall.
Open Roofs and drag a rectangle over your walls.

Set up your walls

Picking a limestone material and typing a new wall height in the Walls tab — Pick a material and height before you draw.

Material: click a swatch.
Height and Width: type a size in metres.
Texture scale: smaller numbers give smaller bricks.

Draw a wall

Clicking four corners on the ground and back to the start, then double clicking to finish the wall — Click each corner, then double click to finish.

Click the ground for each corner.
Double click or right click to finish.
Ctrl+Z steps back one corner.
Keep Grid Snapping on for square rooms.

Add a door

Choosing an arched four panel door and clicking the front wall to place it — Choose a shape and style, then click the wall.

Shape: square or arched.
Style: from an open doorway to panel, barn, dutch or gate doors.
Set the materials, hinge side and how far it is open.
Click a wall to place. Keep clicking to add more.

Add windows

Choosing a tall cross window and clicking either side of the door to place two windows — Pick a shape and frame, then click the wall.

Shape: square, small square, tall or cloister.
Frame: cross, grate, colonial and more.
Free place puts the window at the height you click.

Glass and gothic windows

Choosing a cloister window with Y tracery and teal glass, then placing it on the back wall — Cloister windows get stone tracery and an optional surround.

Cloister gives a pointed arch with tracery frames.
Pick a glass colour, or the crossed out swatch for none.
Colour and Dirtiness sliders age the glass.

Add a roof

Opening the Roofs tab and dragging a rectangle over the walls to place a gable roof — Drag over your walls. Corners snap onto the wall tops.

Open Roofs and drag a rectangle over the walls.
Corners snap onto the walls, and the ends fill in to match.
Apex Height sets the pitch. Overhang sets the eaves.

Roof types

Clicking a placed roof in Edit mode and switching it between hip, shed, flat and gable — Change a placed roof's type any time in Edit mode.

Gable, Hip, Flat or Shed.
A shed roof has a Flip button to swap the high side.

Change or delete things

Clicking a placed door in Edit mode, switching it to a dutch door and opening it outwards — In Edit mode, click anything you have built to change it.

Click Edit, then click a wall, door, window or roof.
Changes show straight away.
Delete is at the bottom of each menu.
Made a mistake while building? Undo in the Buildings panel, or Ctrl+Z, takes back the last change.

On a phone or tablet

Double tap, or switch tab, to finish a wall.
Drag the handle at the top of the panel to resize it, or swipe it down to get it out of the way.

Controls

Click ground	Drop a wall corner
Double click	Finish the wall
Right click	Finish the wall, or stop placing doors and windows
Esc	Stop placing doors and windows
Drag	Draw a roof (in the Roofs tab)
Ctrl+Z	Undo, while the Buildings panel is open

Tips

Draw a whole building as one wall, back to where you started.
Doors and windows can't sit right on a corner. Leave some room.
Add the roof last, after doors and windows.

More guides

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