Wow, I'm really excited about your progress. I'm not sure if i can contribute in the near future. I too was stuck at the generation of objects. I'm more into geo-information.

I didn't do much since my last post. (except i built a house ) I'm still interested in this plug-in. But my priorities just shifted a bit i invested some time on understanding the code. I'm a professional java developer, but at some points i just didn't understand the data structure and -flow.

i confused gable with ridge in all of my posts [#-o]

If someone want to get involved... i created a private repro at bitbucket, but i can add everyone who is interested. If the first version is finished i'll open that repro.

I would suggest that you request to draw this line in a clone of the current home that will display only walls. You could display this clone in your dialog box with your own plan component / controller, using subclasses of PlanComponent and PlanController classes (VideoPanel class uses for example ...

do you mean something like this?:

Hi, I have a first draft for the roof designer at the bottom of this post.
You draw the gabel and enter your properties in the dialog.

Currently i just use a polyline and store all informations in the properties.
The next step is to generate a roof object from that informations.

I'm not really ...

yes i know its just the description of the general idea. And you can't cover every roof type. But your link would be covered by my idea. The most complex thing i see is to get the align of the subroof right. But i wouldn't go for absolute perfection in the first Version. There are still the current ...

Hi, I'm working with sh3d since more than 5 years. [:x]
But I'm still unhappy with the way roofs are created. [>:)]

I'm a developer so I'm thinking about, how to improve it. But I don't know if I'll have the time to get it done all myself*) [:p].
roofs align with the shape of the outer walls ...

This would be not useful for the program with the current renderer. thats pity :(
You can add your own lights if you want more light that is a workaround, but not very good... you have to add many lights at a huge building to simulate a ambient light.
What did you feel was missing in the help ...