Tournament Ground On The Day

A 56 by 44 m tournament ground inside a closed fence of lists, laid out for the day of the meeting.

The tilt runs the whole length of the middle on churned mud, eight barrier sections between two end posts, with a lance rack at each end and whole and shattered lances lying along the run. Six grandstands face it from each side, open fronted so you can walk in and sit down, with the royal box open on three sides under its canopy at the centre of the south rail and the herald platform facing it from the north. Banner poles and pennant lines run the whole enclosure, gonfalon frames flank the rails, and torch posts and braziers line the tilt.

The head of the lists at the west end holds the challengers shields and lance racks, a dressed harness, the marshals platform, the quintain and two pells. An archery range sets four straw butts against marker posts along the north west fence. A ring of hurdles at the east end is the melee ground, with blunted weapon racks and pells beside it. The armoury and farrier corner fills the south west band with armour stands, helms, shield and lance racks, the anvil, the tool chest and the whetstone wheel. The camp runs along the north: four pavilions standing open with a harness or a bench in each doorway, tack racks, barding stands, saddle trestles, squires benches, hay and feed. The crowd side behind the south stands trades from three stalls, a cook fire, trestle tables with bread and ale, a coin table and the stocks.

What moves. The quintain arm spins on its post and its sandbag swings from the arm as a child node. The lists gates swing on their hinge posts. The whetstone wheels turn, the cook fire spit turns, the stocks board lifts, the chest and crate lids lift, and the baggage cart wheels roll. Clips play as you come within a few metres.

What does not move, and why. Banner and tent fabric, guy ropes, pennant lines, awnings, and the flames in every brazier, torch and cook fire are static: flexible material needs a joint per element and fire needs a shader, and neither is reachable with one rigid node transform. There are no people and no animals anywhere in it, because this library has no skinned meshes; the barding stands and saddle trestles carry the tack on frames instead.

Heraldry. Every shield, banner, gonfalon and pennant in the pack is blank, apart from one shield carrying an invented abstract chevron. Nothing here bears the arms of any real family, order or institution, so you can letter your own.

It places all 65 models of the pack, so the first load pulls the whole pack down. That is the trade for a ground that reads as a place rather than a lineup.

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.