Town plaza crowd

A forty by thirty six metre paved plaza and its edges, laid with 347 placements of all 59 designs in the pack. Better than two hundred people are standing in it, and they are grouped the way people actually stand: conversation rings turned in on one another, a queue at the shop corner, families crossing on their own headings, children running, someone on a call, someone leaning at the edge, two dozen seated on benches.

Walk out of the spawn and the first thing in front of you is the reference display: the T pose and A pose figures on a dais, a mannequin turning on its turntable, a jointed wooden artist's figure and two mannequin busts on plinths, and a scale row of a child, an adult and the barbarian standing side by side. That answers the first question anyone asks of a figure set. One proportion table runs the whole pack: an adult is 1.75 m, the slighter adult 1.66 m, a child 1.16 m, an older figure 1.64 m and the barbarian 1.88 m, so any two figures here stand together correctly.

Past the display the plaza opens out. The south west corner is a works site with builders, a plank carry, mechanics crouched at wheel height, a courier and a medic kneeling to a casualty. The south east edge is trade: a shop worker at a stand, chefs, waiters with trays, a cleaner, a farmer and a small queue of customers. The north east holds a uniformed group, soldiers at ease, patrolling, kneeling and prone, with a police figure, firefighters and a medic standing apart from them. The north west is a different scene entirely, knights, an archer, a mage, a rogue, a barbarian and villagers at the same scale as the civilians. Along the north edge stand the spacesuits, the armoured troopers and the pilot.

Nobody here is rigged and nobody moves. Every person in this pack is static geometry in a baked pose, and that is a deliberate decision rather than a gap. The library pipeline carries rigid node transform clips and no skinning at all, so an organic figure cannot be animated here: hinging a shoulder and an elbow as separate rigid nodes tears the limb open at every joint and reads far worse than one clean, considered pose. What the pack gives instead is a pose that is correct from every angle, and enough of them to cover what a crowd does. The only things moving in this demo are inanimate: the shop mannequin turns on its turntable, the round display plinth turns, and the wooden artist's figure swings its limbs on real pin joints.

The four lowered poses are handled the way the pack asks. The sitting, sitting leaning back and older seated figures are shaped for a 0.40 m seat and ship without one, so every one of them here is on the pack's own plaza bench, which is built to that height. The kneeling and crouching poses, the medic, the soldier, the mechanic and the rogue, rest on the ground and need nothing under them. Shadow contact discs are dropped under a scattering of standing figures, which is what grounds a figure where a renderer casts no shadows.

The models are tiny, at most 1,665 triangles each, which is why a plaza can carry this many of them: 59 distinct models is the whole download, and everything above that is a clone. No figure resembles a real, identifiable person, and nothing carries a badge, crest, insignia, number, logo or any lettering. Every colourway is invented and no force, service, club, franchise or maker is referenced anywhere.

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.