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posting the elevations recently completed of an existing house in New England.

Very nice!

Very, very nice!

Indeed! Really nice!

Nice Matt! What tool technique did you use to get the variations in colors for the shingles? Thanks - Frank

Thank you for the kind words.

For the shingles there is (working up from the back)
white opaque layer
gradient from cedar to light gray, it is about 15% for the fill opacity
to get some variety in the shingle color I have shingles as described below
then a layer made with the shingle tool, except I deleted the doubled horizontal lines that the tool draws, the lines are grouped and set to about 50% line opacity as a group.

To make the shingles I used the jiggle tool, both for color and for location.
first for color, I made a single shingle, set it to an average shingle color, made a bunch of copies and then played with the jiggle color options until I got a range of colors that I liked. Made a few copies of all these in a big pile, then
used the jiggle location tool to distribute them over a pretty wide area.
THEN, using selection by enclosing window I would pick a wide and shallow region containing colored rectangles, and aligned their tops and then grouped them. Using the shingle module as a nudge dimension I offset these out of the jiggle mess into a clean area. If I got too many in the selection set it was sometimes necessary to delete a few.
Repeat that ten or twelve times and I had a wall-sized set of variously colored shingle-sized rectangles that were on no particular module horizontally, but vertically would fall on shingle coursing.

Thanks Matt! Sorry for the delay in responding to how you did the technique......we've all been vey busy with the influx of work, which is a blessing!