Swapping colors

CD2 houses sloping roofs can have up to three colors. The position of these colors can be "swapped" in mid House command to make sure that the shading looks correct. The colors are called the Dark, Medium and Light colors. The actual colors used depend on the roof colors in the current house settings. The Medium color is optional and depends on whether the 3 color scheme tick box is checked in the current house settings.

When you first draw a house, the first edge you select is the long edge of the darkest side of the house. The S key allows you give consistent lighting to your houses.

3-color scheme example

1 Start a house by select the house icon $image\House.gif$ . Choose a Modern Blue House Setting (which is a 3 color scheme) with the settings as below.

$image\swap.gif$

2 Insert the house until you see the following prompt.

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3 Press S. See how the color scheme changes. Press S again a few times.

$image\swap2.gif$

1 Start a house with the dialog settings as in the previous example, but use the Classical Red house setting.

2 At the swap prompt, press the S key a few times.