<t>For anyone who wants to know if my issue is solved, going to my laptop and loading it up was, for some reason... fine??? Not sure why desktop has issues with certain textures though, such as a slanted roof furniture piece,or the black cloud associated with lights, but I at least got it working on ...

Oh, and one other thing, it's a previously made project, for anyone wondering, and also I have tried deleting and re-adding the offending furniture

<t>I'm currently having what I think is a similar issue, albeit not necessarily the same...<br/>
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If I turn the (standard) "wall spotlights"(to act as a security light placeholder) I get this kind of cone or blob of black emanating from the vicinity of the lights, obscuring most of my 3d view ...

<t>On second try of doing a roof in a demo house, I didn't get it to work, so I think I tried before and it didn't work, sorry for my bad memory... Also just tried autodimensioning, and it didn't work, plus I am using v1.0 of the roof plugin... Is there some other plugin I'm missing, or perhaps a ...

Also, in case you're wondering, I did try with a demo house plan or two that came with the program and it worked just fine

<r><QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>The plugin work in this order:<br/>
1. Select 1 or more rooms. If are more only first will be computed.<br/>
2. Menu->Tool->Generate roof...<br/>
Recommendation 1: try on a test file, eventually with file provided on this page.<br/>
Recommendation 2: install AutoDimensioning ...

so... i did the making a bigger room method of creating a roof, but it still doesn't bring up any roof building menu, like i understand the plugin should

<r><QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>You need to draw big room around your external walls, which is your future roof projection. Then select this room and use plugin<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>

sooo... i'm just selecting the interior room when i shouldn't be? if i then make a room that extends outside the building ...

<t>Ugh... I got the button to ungrey, by selecting my building, but it doesn't seem to do anything. Now, are we supposed to select the walls, or the "room" that outlines the entire building? I've been selecting the "room" but IDK why it won't even appear to do a single thing, if that's what you are ...

One thing I forgot to mention is that I technically don't need the roof, it's just that for the thing that I am currently working on I would like to have a roof to give it a more complete look in a walkthrough of the outside of the building