Desert oasis and canyon arch

Walk a 76 by 64 metre stretch of desert built from the Desert Canyons and Oases pack: a date-palm oasis, a walkable natural arch under a canyon rim, hoodoos, buttes and a mesa with a spring, barchan dunes and a salt pan, and cactus flats.

About

One desert scene from 48 of the pack's 88 models, on sand in the outdoor preset with warm light and a pale horizon.

You start on the sand looking at the oasis: the pool on cracked mud, six date palms, reed beds and tamarisk. Beyond it the large walkable natural arch closes the north end in front of a canyon rim built from the pack's wall tiles: eight straight walls, two gallery walls and two corners on a 4 m pitch, with cap rock ledges on top and sand drifts and a toadstool rock at the foot. The desert butte and the talus-skirt butte stand in the north corners, each with a talus cone.

East are the hoodoo trio, a slender capped hoodoo, the pedestal rock and the sandstone fin wall, then the slickrock dome, the mushroom hoodoo, a toadstool rock and a small natural arch at the edge. West are the balanced rock, window rock and the erosion spire cluster, and behind them the mesa block, where a spring seeps into travertine terrace pools beside an undercut alcove. A salt pan of nine tiles fills the south-east corner. Behind the start four barchan crescents, a dead date palm, petrified logs and bleached bones close the south side. Cacti, cholla, sagebrush, creosote, brittlebush, agave, yucca, boulder clusters and tumbleweeds are scattered across the flats.

Nothing moves: this pack ships without animation clips. The ground is the demo's plain floor; the pack's terrain tiles (ripples, pavement, crust), the dune field and wadi tiles and the composed canyon and oasis assemblies are not placed: their straight edges read as slabs on a flat floor, and the loose pieces already make the place.

Every piece here is a published model from the pack, placed by hand. Walk with the keys or touch, and approach a piece to see it move if it has animation. Colliders, navigation and gameplay are yours to add.

Points of interest

The oasis
A pool with three mature date palms, three young ones, reed beds and tamarisk round the edge, on cracked mud. The pool is one 6 m model; the palms are placed and turned by hand.
Oasis pool (Desert Canyons and Oases)
Natural arch and the rim
The large walkable natural arch spans 11 m at the north end, with the canyon rim behind it: straight wall and gallery wall tiles on a 4 m pitch, cap rock ledges on top and sand drifts at the foot.
Large walkable natural arch (Desert Canyons and Oases)
Hoodoos
The hoodoo trio and a slender capped hoodoo on the east side, with the pedestal rock, the mushroom hoodoo and the slickrock dome beyond.
Hoodoo trio (Desert Canyons and Oases)
Balanced rock and butte
The balanced rock in front of the desert butte, which rises 11 m in the north-west corner with a talus cone at its foot, and the talus-skirt butte opposite it.
Balanced rock (Desert Canyons and Oases)
The mesa spring
A spring seeps from the foot of the 7 m mesa block into travertine terrace pools, with tamarisk taking the water and an undercut alcove beside it.
Spring seep in rock (Desert Canyons and Oases)
Cactus flats
Columnar and barrel cacti, prickly pear, cholla, ocotillo, creosote, brittlebush, sagebrush, agave, yucca and tumbleweeds scattered across the sand.
Branched columnar cactus (Desert Canyons and Oases)
The dunes
Turn round from the start: four barchan crescents close the south side, with a dead date palm, petrified logs and bleached bones in the sand.
Barchan crescent dune (Desert Canyons and Oases)
Salt pan
A salt pan of nine 4 m tiles in the south-east corner, with a dead snag and tumbleweeds at its edge. The tiles join on their edges, so a wider pan is more of the same.
Salt pan tile (Desert Canyons and Oases)

Use with an AI agent

Copy this prompt into your AI chat to rebuild the layout, then describe what to change.

Rebuild the "Desert oasis and canyon arch" demo scene from the Desert Canyons and Oases pack in my project.

Layout (JSON, every placement with its CDN URL): https://3dassets.dev/api/v1/demos/desert-canyons-and-oases
Pack manifest: https://3dassets.dev/api/v1/packs/desert-canyons-and-oases
Demo page: https://3dassets.dev/demos/desert-canyons-and-oases

- 137 placements of 48 models; units are metres, +Y up, rotation is yaw in degrees about +Y
- Spawn at (0, 0, 18) facing 180 degrees; eye height 1.6 m
- Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (no attribution required)
- Loading: three.js GLTFLoader, one load per distinct model, cloned per placement; no decoders required

Also available as JSON or Markdown, and via the MCP server.

Common questions

How do I use Desert oasis and canyon arch with my AI development tools?

Press "Copy for AI agent" above and paste the prompt into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT or any other coding assistant. The prompt carries the direct CDN URL, the real-world size, the licence and the loading notes, so the assistant can fetch the scene and place it in your project without you writing the loader yourself. For a permanent connection, add the 3DAssets.dev MCP server to your tool with one command (for Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http 3dassets https://3dassets.dev/mcp) and the assistant can then search the whole catalogue, fetch files and read the usage snippets on its own.

MCP server setup Guide for AI agents

How do I get started?

Walk the scene here with the keys or touch to see how the pack fits together. To build it yourself, download the pack with the button, then copy the "Copy for AI agent" prompt: it links the layout JSON, which lists every placement with its position, rotation and CDN URL, so an assistant connected to the MCP server can rebuild the scene in your engine and change it to order.

MCP server setup

Which game engines and tools can I use Desert oasis and canyon arch with?

Anything that reads glTF, which today means all of the major ones: three.js and React Three Fiber on the web, Godot 4, Unity, Unreal Engine 5, Blender and the model-viewer web component. Every model in the scene is a self-contained binary glTF (.glb) with textures embedded, so each is one file to import and no plugin, converter or decoder to install first.

How do I import this scene into Unity, Godot, Unreal or Blender?

Unity: install the glTFast package (com.unity.cloud.gltfast) from the Package Manager, drop the .glb into Assets and drag the prefab in, or load it at runtime from the CDN URL. Godot 4: copy the file into the project folder and the editor imports it as a scene you can instantiate. Unreal Engine 5: File > Import with the built-in glTF importer, which converts the axes for you. Blender: File > Import > glTF 2.0. Units are metres with +Y up in the file, and every importer above handles the conversion to its own axes automatically.

Can I use Desert oasis and canyon arch in a commercial game, and do I need to credit anyone?

Yes to commercial use and no to credit. Every scene on 3DAssets.dev is released under CC0 1.0 Universal, which places it in the public domain: use it in a paid game, an app, a film or a client project, modify it, redistribute it, and put nothing in the credits. A link back is welcome but it is entirely your choice.

CC0 licence text

Can I load it from the CDN instead of downloading it?

Yes. The pack behind it has a permanent URL on cdn.3dassets.dev that is CORS-enabled and never changes content, so you can pass it straight to GLTFLoader, glTFast or model-viewer in production and cache it as hard as you like. Downloading is only needed for engines that import from disk.

Is the demo itself a file I can download?

No, and it does not need to be. A demo is a layout of the pack's published models composed in your browser from the CDN, so there is no extra file to fetch. Download the pack for the models, and take the layout JSON linked above for the placements: together they are the whole scene, and an AI agent can rebuild it from those two links.

Can I change the scene, or add gameplay to it?

Yes. The layout is plain data in metres, so move, add or remove placements freely in your own engine. Colliders, navigation and gameplay are yours to add: the demo shows what the pack looks like assembled, and your game decides how it plays.

Models in this demo

Oasis pool (Desert Canyons and Oases)

Shallow turquoise pool with a low natural sandstone bank.

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