[FS HappyDay]

Chill to this instrument of terror

While working on uptown is my main focus, building houses all day gets a bit monotonous after a while. To spice things up for myself I was looking for something else to model and I felt like a ukulele model would be a nice little project. Since I own a ukulele it was quite easy for me to get the correct measurements for the model and I didn't have to search for references at all. The model has about 3000 tris, which is not very much compared to the example UE4 content from Epic Games but I still want to create a LOD model for it later. I can also use the uke as a base to build other instruments like guitars, violins, etc. So you can expect some random instruments waiting to be played (or shot at) in the future UrT HD maps.

Ok, back to working on uptown now, cya later :)

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[Forge|Freshh]

Nice :)
It looks like it would fit perfectly in Italy from cs or Prague :p

[baex]

nice to see how much detail has been put in the model. Lets just hope that goes for everything else too :)

[|LcD|GcBrothers]

Will we have a chance to see it on Urt HD as a new weapon ? :3
Anyway, nice work :)

[rayne2]

I'm sorry but i actually think it kinda looks...bad..
I can see where you spent the majority of polygons, they're most likely on the neck on the back side, to make it look smooth, and that part of the model ,geometry vise looks good, but the body looks extremely low poly and stands out cause it looks like one of those extra low poly Q3 models.

And the texture...i hope it's WiP cause it looks boring and lacks details that would make the model look more interesting.
Wood on the side of the body should be more finer, denser lines.
Something like this
http://www.lagguitar...les/u500se.html
And this
http://www.get-tuned...ory/ukulele.jpg

Put that sticker inside, give that neck and body some variety so it looks right and the lack of the line where the side of the body connects with top and bottom is something i think you'll see on 99% of string instruments.
And without it, it looks unfinished.

[FS HappyDay]

GcBrothers, on 25 August 2014 - 11:09 AM, said:

Will we have a chance to see it on Urt HD as a new weapon ? :3

Maybe, wait and see :)

rayne2, on 25 August 2014 - 05:02 PM, said:

I'm sorry but i actually think it kinda looks...bad..
I can see where you spent the majority of polygons, they're most likely on the neck on the back side, to make it look smooth, and that part of the model ,geometry vise looks good, but the body looks extremely low poly and stands out cause it looks like one of those extra low poly Q3 models.

Most of the polygons are on the tuners, the neck has about the same amount of tris as the body. Nevertheless, it also occurred to me that the body looks bit less smooth than the rest. I guess I removed a bit too many edge loops from the high-poly model. I can fix that.

rayne2, on 25 August 2014 - 05:02 PM, said:

And the texture...i hope it's WiP cause it looks boring and lacks details that would make the model look more interesting.
Wood on the side of the body should be more finer, denser lines.
Something like this
http://www.lagguitar...les/u500se.html
And this
http://www.get-tuned...ory/ukulele.jpg

(...) and the lack of the line where the side of the body connects with top and bottom is something i think you'll see on 99% of string instruments.
And without it, it looks unfinished.

If I check google images about 50 % of ukes don't have those lines on the side, neither has mine. That's just an artistic touch, no must-have. If/when I touch this model again I'll reconsider adding them.

The wood on the side of my ukulele is not finer. Again that might be true for some ukes but not all, afterall it's wood, sometimes it's finer, sometimes the texture is larger.

I can see that these things might add even more detail to the model but I'm quite content with it as it is at the moment. There's lots of other stuff I have to do, no need to spend more time on one of the most detailed models urt has ever seen. I might even have added too much detail anyway. In-game you won't get as close to the model as on the screens. I appreciate your nit-picking though :)

rayne2, on 25 August 2014 - 05:02 PM, said:

Put that sticker inside

I thought about that, maybe I'll add one later.