City Mapping - Essential Skills - Random Streets Tool - Fully Customized Houses
City Designer's true power becomes clear in this advanced tutorial. We explore how to fully customize a house style - changing its fill, how it is drawn, and even placing beams across the roof. You can save any unique house styles and add them to a mix of houses in your streets styles. Then you can simply draw streets and see your new house style added to your city, along with other buildings of your choosing. Wowsa. This is city-mapping on steroids!
You will learn:
1. how to access the House Setting feature of the Random Streets tool
2. how to change the angle (pitch) of your building roofs
3. how to change the roof 'fill' (how it looks) to be a bitmap of your choosing.
4. how to change the width of the edging of your rooftops to create beams.
5. how to save your unique house as a new House Style
6. how to add your new house to a street style, mixed with other house styles
7. set which side of the street your houses will be drawn on (in this case, both sides at once)
8. how to draw your new houses, along with other houses, randomly along a road on your map.
Difficulty level: Advanced
Time needed: 3-5 min - but a lifetime to master!