I am dying with asphalt roof edges. Does anyone have any tips? I have some luck with drawing a line and center offsetting it. Then I grab the edges and drop it down, eyeing things, but unless it is a straight roof edge, it never really works right. I have tried the same line center offset and shape merging, but MAX is really bad at it and most of the time it fails and only cuts part of my roof. A roof with dozens of edges can take hours. I know there is a way because the roof displacement script did it in seconds, but that script has gone dead a decade ago.
example please?
I think this might help you;
The default is not asphalt, but you can make it custom.
Haven’t used it in a while, but from what I remember, it was working fine for edges.
Yeah, I have tried this and almost everything else. For other types, this script work great. Even Railclone doesn’t have a simple asphalt roof with ridge cap which is odd to me. In the states, 95% of your roofs will be asphalt shingles.
Yes, that is the one that broke after MAX 2009
Now, mind you, simple roofs are quick, but when you get into roofs like above it becomes a nightmare. I just did a roof with 9 ridges, all with the same pitch and it took me a few minutes. It’s the above-complicated roofs that can take many hours.
railClone seems to be an obvious choice here.
I reached out to them and asked why they don’t have a simple asphalt roof. They said that they can’t create a roof type of every roof style, but I said that 95% of the roofs in the states are asphalt. That was months ago and I haven’t heard back. I don’t know RailClone well enough to build my own style. Simple roofs yes, but roofs where the pitch is different on each side of the roof isn’t so easy.
Paul roberts from itoo (the lovely man) had a script and a vimeo video for it - https://www.itoosoft.com/tutorials/creating-roofs-with-railclone?back=page%3D2%26tag%3Drc
Yes, but those are simple ridge caps. If you have hip caps with each side being a different pitch, it is a pain.
would displacement work for you or it needs to be geo?
I do use displacement for my roofs.
Wow, thats an odd way to roof a house… Nah, americans 
That’s the roof you’ll see on 95% of the houses.
maybe because USA is not the center of the world
If you were to create one roof style for the states it would be this, an asphalt roof. Sure, we are not the center, however, I am sure they sell a few copies of RailClone to the states.
HAHA! Neither are asphalt shingles!!!
If you have a script that does this in previous version of 3d max, why not just install that previous version of max with the script and use it to do what you need instead of creating this long hot mess of a thread?
I am not sure why you would see it as a hot mess of a thread. it is a need that I am sure many have. If I could find MAX 2009. I already went down that road.