[Bubbaloo]

The house looks great. Can you tell us the sale price of the house? It would make a great summer home.

The sky looks a little unnatural. It looks too dark for the sun to be visible.

[Josephus Holt]

construction price is around $5 million I agree about the sky...I was trying rather unsuccessfully to mimic moonlight, probably using an IBL will be the only way to do that.

Here is an update without trying to be too clever (I noticed that my balustrade and eave beams were turned off). SL14 only. Now to get going on the site.

@Steve: thx, but the drawings and all eight revisions are completed...quite a job it was!

[rusteberg]

joe, the roof tiles seem bothersome as they progress towards the right of your latest image. especially when compared to the scale of the brick upon close examination.....

don't know how you're creating your roof tiles, but if you are using max, there is a great plugin you can use to generate your roof tile geometry opposed to relying on computationally expensive displacement.

but what the hell do i know....... i'm not an architect

[Josephus Holt]

joe, the roof tiles seem bothersome as they progress towards the right of your latest image. especially when compared to the scale of the brick upon close examination.....

don't know how you're creating your roof tiles, but if you are using max, there is a great plugin you can use to generate your roof tile geometry opposed to relying on computationally expensive displacement.

but what the hell do i know....... i'm not an architect

I'll check the scale of the Norman brick since it's a bump map, but the roof tiles are all modeled geometry (no displacement). I'm using Rhino for my modeling...no max. What may look odd to you is that the roof tile pans are flat, which was often the case with Italian roof tiles, where often you would see the underside of the flat tiles, especially under patios (loggias). The rounded (bent over the knee) Mexican pan tiles are more commonly seen/used here in the US,

....and it's not so much about what we know, but what we can see...and you obviously see very well A number of years ago I spent some time taking watercolor painting classes, and what impressed me most in those classes was the need to learn to see....felt like I was at least half blind, and the license to practice architecture does not cure that

[rusteberg]

coming from a rio grande valley native, yes, those tiles look odd to me
i've only spent a few hours in milano airport so i wouldn't know what their tiles look like, or what they call their patios

happy new year, joe!