showing ridge tiles

[Cadplan Architecture]

I'm fairly new to modelling roofs but the tool seems limited in some respects. Ok you can show roof planes and add textures for tiles, this looks ok when the viewpoint is some way off, but when you get closer it doesn't look as it should do in real life. Is there a way to show ridge tiles, as for example on a fully hipped roof, and is there a way to show the bottom 2 or 3 rows of tiles tilted up slightly as this is a very common feature of British roofs? Another thing I've noticed is that once a roof has been created you don't seem to be able to change the pitch in the info palette

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[Guest Wes Gardner]

To change the pitch, once the roof has been created, click on the roof and you'll see some blue "nodes", click on one of those letting you adjust the pitch for that particular roof face or there's a check box down near the bottom where you can select "Entire Roof."

Ridge tiles will need to be modeled...depending on how intricate you want to get, you can either model individual tiles and place them (you may consider symbol technology for this...) or you can use an extrude.

To get the roof to "kick" at the bottom, you'll need to model the roof face or maybe overbuild the roof with a kicked extrude.