Fantasy MMO city market quarter

A walled market quarter laid out from 47 of the pack's 87 models, on the pack's own paving under the outdoor preset with a warm low sun. The quarter is 56 m square inside a closed curtain wall, and the loop from the gate round the ring road and back takes under two minutes.

You arrive under the great gatehouse in the south wall and walk up the main street between two rows of awned market stalls. The plaza opens ahead with the fountain at its centre, the well, a notice board, a trade sign, pennant poles, eight more stalls, crate stacks, sack piles, barrels and planters. A ring road runs round the square with a lane off each side: east past the smithy yard and its anvils and quench troughs, west out to the postern gate in the wall, and north down to the canal.

The four sides are closed by the wall itself, its four corner towers and nine buildings turned to face in: a fletcher, a bakery and an apothecary along the south, the arcane mage tower and a second fletcher on the west, a smithy and an apothecary on the east, and a bakery and an apothecary along the north. Repeating a shopfront is deliberate. A demo downloads each distinct model once, so the budget is spent on the models you can walk up to rather than on eighteen different shells.

What moves. The gatehouse lifts its portcullis and swings both leaves, and the postern bay opens. The mage tower turns the crystal at its crown, the smithy pumps its bellows, the bakery works its awning and its door, the apothecary and the fletcher open their doors, trade signs and pennants sway, stall canopies and crate lids open, and the hand carts roll their wheels. The figures are rigid jointed puppets driven by node transforms alone: heads turn, arms swing, weapons raise and the wolf and the rat flick their tails. There is no skeleton and no skinning anywhere in the pack, so fingers, faces, hair and cloth do not move.

What is scenery. Upper storeys, wall walks, tower tops and roofs cannot be reached. A demo visitor walks one flat level at eye height with no stairs and no jumping, so everything above the street is there to be looked at, and the buildings are closed shells that are not entered. The cathedral, town hall, guild hall, tavern, inn, bank, auction house, barracks, general store, tailor, cartographer, alchemist and dock warehouse are in the pack but are not placed here, and neither are its four large composed scenes: on a page a browser has to download, the weight goes on the street.

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.