Public Aquarium and Marine Centre

Walk an aquarium gallery: a run of lit wall tanks, a walk through tunnel, touch and ray pools, a shop and cafe, and the pump room and quarantine tanks behind the wall.

About

A visitor aquarium and its back of house, built from the pack's ported tank runs, tunnel sections, floor tiles, graphic walls, handrails and catwalks.

What is placed. The visitor route runs from the ticket desk and turnstile past a run of wall tanks with corner and end modules, each with a frame, lighting hood, interior rockwork, interpretive sign and species label, through a walk through tunnel, past the touch pool and the open top ray pool with their handrails, to the gift shop, the cafe and the education classroom. Behind the wall, the life support plant room holds the pump skid, the filtration tower, the protein skimmer, the chiller, quarantine tanks on frames, the water test bench, the feed prep bench and fridge, net and gear racks, the chemical store, dive cylinders and a catwalk over the tanks.

What moves. The turnstile spins, the locker, fridge and chemical store doors open and close, the quarantine tank lids lift, the hose drum spins, the chiller fan turns and the touchscreen kiosks tilt.

What does not move, and why. There are no fish and no moving water. This library has no skinned meshes and water is not a rigid node, so the tanks ship as glass, frame, lighting and rockwork, with a still water surface plane in the open top pools that is deliberately static. The water and the animals are for you to add. Hoses, nets and wetsuits are static for the same reason, and there are no visitors or staff.

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

Admissions
The ticket desk, the turnstile that spins, the cloakroom lockers whose doors open and the wayfinding totem at the start of the visitor route.
Ticket Desk (Public Aquarium and Marine Centre)
The tank run
Wall tank modules repeat on their ports with corner and end pieces, each with a frame, a lighting hood, interior rockwork and its interpretive sign. There are no fish and no moving water: those are for you to add.
Wall Tank Module (Public Aquarium and Marine Centre)
The tunnel
Tunnel sections repeat into a walk through arch. The water surface is a still plane and the glass is glass: nothing here is animated, because water is not a rigid node.
Tunnel Tank Section (Public Aquarium and Marine Centre)
Touch pool
The touch pool and the open top ray pool section with their low walls and handrails, each with a static water surface plane where a real one would be.
Touch Pool (Public Aquarium and Marine Centre)
Back of house
The pump skid, filtration tower, protein skimmer, chiller with its spinning fan, quarantine tanks whose lids lift, the test and feed benches and the catwalk over the tanks.
Life Support Pump Skid (Public Aquarium and Marine Centre)
Shop and cafe
The gift shop counter and shelving, the cafe tables and chairs, the education classroom set and the touchscreen kiosks that tilt.
Gift Shop Counter (Public Aquarium and Marine Centre)

Use with an AI agent

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

Rebuild the "Public Aquarium and Marine Centre" demo scene from the Public Aquarium and Marine Centre pack in my project.

Layout (JSON, every placement with its CDN URL): https://3dassets.dev/api/v1/demos/public-aquarium-and-marine-centre
Pack manifest: https://3dassets.dev/api/v1/packs/public-aquarium-and-marine-centre
Demo page: https://3dassets.dev/demos/public-aquarium-and-marine-centre

- 111 placements of 49 models; units are metres, +Y up, rotation is yaw in degrees about +Y
- Spawn at (-4.5, 0.04, 2.6) facing 115 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 Public Aquarium and Marine Centre 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 Public Aquarium and Marine Centre 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 Public Aquarium and Marine Centre 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

Visitor Floor Tile (Public Aquarium and Marine Centre)

A 2 m square of poured visitor floor with a recessed joint grid and a coloured route inlay, the tile every gallery in this pack stands on.

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