Open Ocean and Deep Sea Life

Walk a seabed transect past whales, sharks, rays, turtles, schooling fish, jellies and a deep sea vent field, all at full metre scale.

About

A walkable seabed transect through the pack, from inshore turtles and silver schools past whales and sharks to a deep sea vent field, with the pelagic water column as the northern backdrop.

What is placed. All 44 published members: every whale, shark, ray, turtle, schooling fish, cephalopod, jelly, the sea lion, otter, porpoise and dugong, plus sand ridges as dunes, basalt outcrops as reef shoulders, vent chimneys with vent fields, and the water column backdrop. Small fish repeat as schools and dunes repeat as ground cover to reach 200 placements.

What moves. Nothing. This pack ships zero animation clips, so every placement rides the implicit proximity default with nothing to play. The breaching humpback, resting turtle, otter and rock octopus are posed studies and are flagged off so a future clip never fires on them by accident.

What is static and why. Everything is static because the models are static studies: there are no rigid node clips to drive, and water itself is not a rigid node, so the sea is sand, sky and fog rather than geometry. Small deep sea animals sit on vent field tops and ridge tops at the surface height of their host, never floating.

What is not placed and why. Nothing is left out: all 44 members are placed. The pack holds 44 designs, so the 48 distinct aspiration for larger packs does not apply here; density comes from repeated schools, dunes and jellies instead.

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

Giants of the open water
The blue whale and humpback flank the walk with the breaching humpback ahead, all at full metre scale.
blue whale (Ocean Animals: Whales, Sharks and Fish)
Toothed hunters
Sperm whale, orca, pilot whale and harbour porpoise hold the middle ground west of the path.
sperm whale (Ocean Animals: Whales, Sharks and Fish)
The shark run
Great white, tiger, mako, hammerheads, basking shark and whale shark cross the centre in both directions.
great white shark (Ocean Animals: Whales, Sharks and Fish)
Rays, turtles and inshore life
Manta, eagle ray and stingray with green, leatherback and resting turtles, plus sea lion, otter and dugong near the entry.
manta ray (Ocean Animals: Whales, Sharks and Fish)
Silver schools
Tuna, mahi mahi, barracuda, marlin, swordfish and sunfish school low over the sand ridges.
bluefin tuna (Ocean Animals: Whales, Sharks and Fish)
The vent field
Chimneys and vent fields cluster north west with anglerfish, viperfish, gulper eels, isopods and squid on and around them.
hydrothermal vent chimney (Ocean Animals: Whales, Sharks and Fish)
Jellies adrift
Moon jellies and Portuguese men o war hang low south of the breach, with octopus and squid on the rocks nearby.
moon jellyfish (Ocean Animals: Whales, Sharks and Fish)
The water column
The pelagic water column stands behind the breach as the deep backdrop, with basalt and sand carrying the seabed.
Pelagic water column (Ocean Animals: Whales, Sharks and Fish)

Use with an AI agent

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

Rebuild the "Open Ocean and Deep Sea Life" demo scene from the Ocean Animals: Whales, Sharks and Fish pack in my project.

Layout (JSON, every placement with its CDN URL): https://3dassets.dev/api/v1/demos/open-ocean-and-deep-sea-life
Pack manifest: https://3dassets.dev/api/v1/packs/open-ocean-and-deep-sea-life
Demo page: https://3dassets.dev/demos/open-ocean-and-deep-sea-life

- 230 placements of 44 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 Open Ocean and Deep Sea Life 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 Open Ocean and Deep Sea Life 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 Open Ocean and Deep Sea Life 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

sand ridge (Ocean Animals: Whales, Sharks and Fish)

sand ridge as a static seabed geology prop.

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