question about roofs

[Totum]

Hi, I'm not sure where to post this for I do not request art, but just have a question. I always find the roofs of the houses in tilesets quite strange. I can't really descripe what is wrong, but I think anyone sees the roofs look strangely flat... the perspective just is not right. I wondered if anybody tried to design a roof from a slightly different angle. But then again, I see everybody use the same kind of roofs so there must me a good reason to do so

 

[Ellie]

I think the problem is shading and perspective. Because tilesets are designed to make any sized roof they generally don't have very natural gradients and such...

The RPG Maker perspective for instance isn't actually front on, it's a combination of head on and front on, which leads to weird circumstances when making something like roofs which are sortof inbetween the two perspectives...



what it should look like,



the reality.



Saying that I do like earthbound's attempts:





I think in reality houses just don't look well from a front-on view.