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A whole canal town from one kit, built on a single 4 m grid. The street is a set of brick house fronts, 0.55 m deep and 6.80 m to the wall head whatever their width, so stepped gables, a bell gable, a warehouse with three tiers of loading shutters, a shopfront bay and a corner block all stand in one terrace under one eaves line; pantile roof slopes seat on their head ports, meet a ridge cap 2.60 m higher and are closed at the back by a party wall run, with dormers and chimney stacks on top. The waterway is laid into the ground rather than cut out of it: 4 m water tiles set 0.30 m below the coping of a quay run with mooring rings and bollards, a stepped landing, a humpback brick bridge, a drawbridge whose leaf and weighted balance beam lift together, and a mitred lock gate pair that swings. On the water are a 12.6 m barge with a tiller that puts over, a clinker rowing boat and a punt, with fender piles and a slewing post crane on the quay. Above it stands the tower mill: two stages of battered brick, a stage gallery, a cap and tail pole that wind round, a four sail cross that turns as one node, a hoist beam whose hook lifts, and the millstones, hopper, chute, sacks and flour cart that go with them. Street and yard dressing fills the rest: a market stall, crates, barrels, a handcart, a delivery bicycle, a wheelbarrow, cheeses, a butter churn, a water pump whose handle rocks, a bench, window boxes, a tulip trough, a bulb crate, a clothes line, a broom and a blank signpost. Rigid node transform clips only, no skinning and no people or animals anywhere. Sailcloth, awnings, washing, ropes, the drawbridge hanging rods and the water surface are modelled solid and never move: flexible material needs a joint per element, a rod pivoted at both ends is a linkage, and one rigid node transform can give neither. No real town, mill, company or product is depicted and no lettering is modelled anywhere. Original AI assisted CC0 geometry.

Files load directly from the CDN. Choose the pieces you need. Colliders, navigation and gameplay scripts are supplied by your game.

Use with an AI agent

Copy this prompt into your AI chat, then describe what you want to build with the pack.

Use the “Canal Town and Windmill” pack in my project.

Manifest (JSON, every model with its CDN URL): https://3dassets.dev/api/v1/packs/canal-town-and-windmill
Starter scene (one GLB with every piece placed): https://cdn.3dassets.dev/assets/36693/v1/model.glb
Pack page: https://3dassets.dev/packs/canal-town-and-windmill
Description: A northern European canal town on a 4 m grid: stepped and bell gable house fronts with pantile roofs, a quay, bridges, a lock and the craft that work them, and a tower mill whose cap winds and whose four sails turn.

- 57 GLB models, 10.9 MB in total
- Units: metres, +Y up, shared scale and palette across the pack
- Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (no attribution required)
- Loading: three.js GLTFLoader; no additional decoders required. Load models individually from the manifest, or the starter scene as one file.

Also available as a JSON manifest or via the MCP server.

Common questions

How do I use Canal Town and Windmill 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 pack 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?

Download the starter scene with the button to get every piece already placed as one .glb, or take individual models from the grid below, each with its own download and CDN URL. The JSON manifest linked above lists every file with its URL and size, which is what an AI agent uses to pull the pack into a project. Connect your agent to the MCP server and it can do all of that by itself.

MCP server setup API reference

Which game engines and tools can I use Canal Town and Windmill 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 pack is a self-contained binary glTF (.glb) with textures embedded, and so is the starter scene, so each is one file to import and no plugin, converter or decoder to install first.

How do I import this pack 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 Canal Town and Windmill in a commercial game, and do I need to credit anyone?

Yes to commercial use and no to credit. Every pack 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 starter scene, one .glb with every piece placed, 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.

Do I have to download the whole pack?

No. Every model in the pack is a separate published asset with its own download and CDN URL, so you can take one prop or the entire set. The starter scene is the one-file option for people who want everything placed at once.

Do the models in Canal Town and Windmill fit together?

That is the point of a pack. The members are built together to one real-world scale with consistent pivots and a shared palette and level of detail, so a building, a vehicle and a prop from the same pack sit correctly in one scene without rescaling or re-texturing.

Game kit

Canal Town and Windmill

A northern European canal town on a 4 m grid: stepped and bell gable house fronts with pantile roofs, a quay, bridges, a lock and the craft that work them, and a tower mill whose cap winds and whose four sails turn.

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One GLB with every piece placed in a starter scene. Each model is also below on its own.

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Everything in this pack

Mill Tower Lower Stage (Canal Town and Windmill)

Free 3D model of a brick tower mill lower stage for a historical canal town game asset kit: battered octagonal body, stone plinth and a lined door reveal.

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