Travelling Circus and Big Top

A travelling circus pitched on a field, laid out as the visitor walks it. From the spawn the queue lane runs past the pay box to the gate in the showground fence, under the entrance arch and up a midway lined with bunting, festoon runs, popcorn and candyfloss. The big top stands at the end of it: fourteen modular canvas bays closing a ring under the striped cone, a scalloped valance round the eaves, centre and quarter poles, guy lines and stakes pegged out on the grass.

Getting inside a tent when the walk cannot climb or duck. The demo walker moves at eye height and never leaves the ground, and a roofed interior is a dark box nobody ever sees. So the sidewall is rolled up on the show side: four canvas bays are left out of the ring either side of the doorway bay, the valance stays on all fourteen, and the ring is open to the lot. From the midway you look straight into the sawdust, the kerb, the tiered benches and the ringside boxes. The acts are set out twice over for the same reason: pedestals, tubs and a hoop stand dress the ring, while the trapeze rig, the tightrope and its net, the human cannon, the plate stand, the hoops, the unicycle, the juggling props and the clown car are rigged out on the open lot beside a second sawdust practice ring, where you can walk all the way round them.

Behind the tent is the back yard: living wagons in two liveries, a tractor unit, the empty cage wagon, the generator trailer and its cable drums, with the dressing mirror, the magician's cabinet, trunks, crates, hay bales and a rolled carpet stacked along the line. Flood lamps stand on the corners of the lot and fencing runs round the perimeter, with a gap on the east side for the lorries.

What moves. The ticket booth shutter, the showground gate, the wagon and cart doors, the magician's cabinet, the trunks and the crates all open and close. Wheels roll on the wagons, the tractor unit, the clown car and the unicycle. The trapeze bar swings, the human cannon and the flood lamps tilt, and the candyfloss drum, the plate stand, the hoop stand and the cable drums spin.

What does not move, and why. The canvas bays, the valance, the guy lines, the safety net, the high wire and the bunting and festoon runs are modelled stiff and stay stiff. Flexible material needs a joint per element, and a demo drives one rigid node transform per moving part, so a swagging rope or a billowing sheet is not something this rig can honestly do. There are no animals and no people anywhere in the pack: the cage wagon and the pedestals travel empty, and nothing here is skinned.

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.