Tundra and Floe: a polar wildlife walk

Walk a polar reserve from the seal haul-out and penguin rookery past whales to ibex ridges and pandas. All 38 models placed.

About

A walkable polar reserve on a 62 by 52 m plot, laid as a loop: the seal haul-out bay, the penguin rookery, the whale channel, the alpine ridge, the panda hollow and the tundra herd ground.

What is placed: all 38 published members of the pack. The two environment scenes anchor two zones: the ice floe colony sits under the penguin rookery and the Himalayan ridge builds the crags. Floe slabs floor the bay and channel flanks, pressure ridges rim the ice, iceberg fragments back the north edge, snow drifts fill the open tundra, and bamboo clumps plant the panda hollow. Every animal appears at least once, with colonies where they belong: twelve emperor penguins and chicks, seal groups, a five strong musk ox herd, and small scatter of foxes, hares, lemmings, marmots and ptarmigan.

What moves: nothing. None of the 38 members ships animation clips, so the scene sets no animate flags and every animal stands as a posed figure, which is how the pack was authored.

What is not placed: nothing is left out. All 38 members are in the scene. The giant panda, red panda and bamboo sit together in one sheltered hollow at the warm end of the reserve, since lowland bamboo never grows beside a seal haul-out; the description on the page says so plainly.

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

The floe edge at first light
A polar bear family works the broken floe edge in the first metres of the walk. Cubs stay close to the big female while a second bear watches from the slabs.
polar bear (Arctic and Polar Animals)
The seal haul-out
Walrus, harp seals and pups crowd the bay ice beside weddell and leopard seals. The elephant seals hold the far end of the beach, as they should.
harp seal (Arctic and Polar Animals)
The penguin rookery
Emperor adults ring their chicks on the colony floe while gentoo penguins nest round the edges. Three birds toboggan down the drift to the water.
emperor penguin (Arctic and Polar Animals)
The whale channel
A bowhead whale lies mid channel with narwhal and beluga either side of it. Pressure ridges and floe slabs close the lane so it reads as open water.
bowhead whale (Arctic and Polar Animals)
High pasture
Ibex and Himalayan tahr graze the ridge below the crags while marmots and ptarmigan work the scree between the drifts.
alpine ibex (Arctic and Polar Animals)
The snow leopard's ledge
A snow leopard watches the tahr herd from the rocks above. Give it room: the cats sit apart from the grazers, predator from prey.
snow leopard (Arctic and Polar Animals)
The bamboo hollow
Giant pandas feed in the sheltered hollow at the warm end of the reserve, with red pandas in the clumps round them. The odd corner of the pack, kept together.
giant panda (Arctic and Polar Animals)
The herd ground
Musk oxen close round the caribou bulls and yak on the open tundra. Foxes, hares, lemmings and a wolverine move through the grass between them.
musk ox (Arctic and Polar Animals)

Use with an AI agent

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

Rebuild the "Tundra and Floe: a polar wildlife walk" demo scene from the Arctic and Polar Animals pack in my project.

Layout (JSON, every placement with its CDN URL): https://3dassets.dev/api/v1/demos/polar-tundra-and-alpine-fauna
Pack manifest: https://3dassets.dev/api/v1/packs/polar-tundra-and-alpine-fauna
Demo page: https://3dassets.dev/demos/polar-tundra-and-alpine-fauna

- 220 placements of 38 models; units are metres, +Y up, rotation is yaw in degrees about +Y
- Spawn at (0, 0, 23) 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 Tundra and Floe: a polar wildlife walk 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 Tundra and Floe: a polar wildlife walk 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 Tundra and Floe: a polar wildlife walk 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

polar bear (Arctic and Polar Animals)

Adult polar bear with heavy shoulders, broad paws and short ears.

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