Tented Safari Camp and Bush Lodge

The camp

A tented bush camp on the savanna, 67 by 61 m, walked from the gate. You arrive on the bush track from the south, the gate swings, and the fire pit and the lodge veranda are ahead of you. The whole pack is here: 403 placements of 55 models, about 1.5 MB of geometry across the lot.

• The approach. Bush track modules with wheel ruts, the gate and its blank sign board across them, and the camp fenced with a pole and wire line on the track side and a thorn brush boma on the bush sides.
• The fire pit. A stone ring with six log seats round it, firewood stacked to one side, a storm lantern on the ground and an acacia over it. This is the middle of the camp.
• The mess. The lodge main building front with its open sided veranda, thatch roof sections either side, and the dining table and chairs on a six module timber deck in front of it. Two guest rondavels stand east of the lodge.
• The kitchen boma. A grill under a hanging pot, the prep table, the water filter stand, the drinks cooler and the firewood, just west of the lodge.
• The guest line. Four tents on timber decks along the west side, two large and two small, two with their flaps tied back and two that open as you reach them. Each has a camp bed under a mosquito net frame, a canvas wash stand, a bucket shower frame behind and a storm lantern on the deck. A raised walkway with a rope handrail runs the length of them with a spur to each.
• Back of house. The water bowser, the header tank on its timber stand, two solar panels, the battery box, jerrycans and firewood in the east yard, with the long drop hut at the end of it.
• The turnaround. Two open game drive vehicles parked off the track, a spare wheel, a jerrycan rack, a rack of closed hard cases and the radio set on its table.
• The viewpoint. Out through the gap in the boma to the spotting scope, the camera tripod, the field desk and a pair of chairs, looking north over the water hole edge modules and the dry riverbed.
• The bush. Acacias in two sizes, baobabs, scrub, grass tufts, termite mounds, bleached bones and dung tracks dressed corner to corner across both savanna ground tones, so the camp sits in the bush rather than on a plane.

What moves

Fourteen models carry clips, all of them on or beside the path. The gate swings. The two closed flap tents open, and so do both rondavels and the long drop hut. The kitchen boma's pot swings over the grill. The drinks cooler and the battery box lids lift. The water bowser tap turns. The game drive vehicle wheels roll. The bucket shower tips. The spotting scope and the camera heads pan. Clips play as you come within a few metres.

What does not move, and why

The canvas, the guy ropes, the mosquito netting, the thatch, the rope handrails, the fire, the smoke and the water are all static geometry. Flexible material and fluid need a joint per element or a shader to behave, and neither is reachable with the rigid node transforms this catalogue animates with, so they are modelled in a settled pose rather than faked. Nothing is skinned anywhere in the pack.

There are also no animals. The bleached bones, the dung tracks and the termite mound are landscape props, not creatures, and the rifle cases on the rack are closed hard cases. If you want game to put in the scene, the catalogue has a savanna wildlife pack with the animals modelled separately.

Walking it

The walk is flat: there is no climbing in a demo, so the viewing platform is scenery you look at rather than go up, and every tent, the veranda and the boma are open fronted so their contents read from the ground. Two minutes takes you gate, fire pit, mess, guest line, water hole.

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.