Imperial palace court and lotus garden

A fictional imperial palace compound, 36 by 38 metres inside its own wall, built from 60 of the pack's 63 models. The wall is straights, corners and end piers with a moon gate let into the west run; the courtyard is paving modules; the rest is the pack laid out as a place.

You spawn just inside the gate tower, looking north up the processional approach: guardian lions and banner poles either side, pennants at your back, and the ceremonial hall's sweeping tiled roof filling the far end. The audience terrace in front of the hall is deliberately open. The throne chair, its footstool, the folding screen behind it, two parasols, braziers, incense burners and a lacquer chest all stand out under the eaves rather than shut inside the hall, which is how a court audience was actually held and, more practically, means you can walk up the steps and see them.

West of the approach is the lotus pond: water modules inside kerb runs, nine lotus clusters, eight floating lanterns, the arched stone bridge across it and the water pavilion on the far bank with a guqin, a tea table and cushions inside. East is the garden quarter, a stepping stone path through rockery, scholars stones, bamboo, plum blossom, peony planters, benches and standing lanterns, with a columned garden hall of lacquered columns and bracket sets under roof cassettes and a ridge run, closed on one side by a screen door set and holding an ancestral altar table.

Covered walkway bays run down both flanks, roofed and open sided, so the pieces under them read from the court: the writing desk with its brush stand and inkstone, scroll racks, a folding screen, hanging scrolls, a tea bay and a storage chest, with silk lanterns hung along the runs. Behind the hall's west flank are the bronze bell, the ceremonial drum and the courtyard well; in the north east corner a drill yard with polearm racks and training dummies.

What moves: the hall's screens and the latticed screen door sets slide, the moon gate leaf swings, the folding screens open, the incense burners, the bronze tripod cauldrons and the lacquer chests lift their lids, the bell swings, the drum tilts, the training dummies rock, the well winds and the hanging and floating lanterns bob.

What does not move, and why: the pond water, the plum blossom, the hanging silk and the guqin strings are static, because flexible material needs a joint per element and one rigid node transform cannot give that. There is no smoke from the burners for the same reason. There are no people anywhere: the pack ships no skinned meshes.

No real palace, temple, garden or landmark is depicted or named, and the banners and painted markings are abstract shapes, not readable calligraphy.

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.