
About
Free 3D model of a Viking Age animal byre: a 5 m turf walled cattle shed with a plank door on iron straps and a turf roof over rafters. Dimensions 5.50 by 2.77 by 4.10 m (X by Y by Z). Metre units, +Y up, +Z front, origin on the footprint at ground level. Animated pivot nodes: door-byre at (-0.66, 0.18, 1.84) m. The byre a Norse farm overwintered its cattle in. The door hangs on the right hand post of the gable doorway and swings out. Exterior model; the far gable is boarded. Steading palette: split oak and pine, wattle and daub, turf and heather thatch, field stone, wrought iron, wool and tarred rope. Rigid node-transform clips: open and close. No skinning. No collision or navigation data.
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Use the “Animal Byre (Viking Age Longhouse and Longship)” asset in my project. Model: https://cdn.3dassets.dev/assets/30178/v1/model.glb Asset page: https://3dassets.dev/assets/viking-age-longhouse-and-longship-animal-byre-bfad336c Description: Free 3D model of a Viking Age animal byre: a 5 m turf walled cattle shed with a plank door on iron straps and a turf roof over rafters. - Dimensions (X × Y × Z): 5.496 × 2.767 × 4.096 metres - Triangles: 14.9k - Animations: open, close - Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) - Loading: Three.js GLTFLoader; no additional decoders required.
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Import manually
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import { GLTFLoader } from 'three/addons/loaders/GLTFLoader.js'
import { AnimationMixer } from 'three'
let mixer
const loader = new GLTFLoader()
loader.load('https://cdn.3dassets.dev/assets/30178/v1/model.glb', (gltf) => {
scene.add(gltf.scene)
mixer = new AnimationMixer(gltf.scene)
mixer.clipAction(gltf.animations[0]).play()
})
// Call from your render loop; deltaSeconds is time since the previous frame.
function updateAssetAnimation(deltaSeconds) {
mixer?.update(deltaSeconds)
}Common questions
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Animal Byre (Viking Age Longhouse and Longship)
Free 3D model of a Viking Age animal byre: a 5 m turf walled cattle shed with a plank door on iron straps and a turf roof over rafters.