Bard
A 1.75 m travelling bard in a wide-brimmed hat with a long swept-back feather, a two-tone doublet with puffed sleeves, a short shoulder cape and tall boots, with a lute either slung on the back or held ready to play across the belly. Lute position, outfit colours, presentation and art style are knobs.
- Size
- 0.96 × 1.8 × 0.93 m
- Triangles
- 2,397
Tune it
4 knobs: Style, Lute, Outfit, Presentation.
Specs
- Size
- 0.96 × 1.8 × 0.93 m width × height × depth
- Triangles
- 2,397 of 6,000
- Draw calls
- 1 one vertex-colour material
- Legs
- 2 2 gait groups
- Stride
- 44 cm duty factor 0.6
- Foot slide
- 0.00 mm limit 1 mm
- Walk clip
- 1.095 m/s at playback speed 1
- Moving parts
- 7 upperarm_L · rotate, forearm_L · rotate, upperarm_R · rotate, forearm_R · rotate, spine · rotate, chest · rotate, neck · rotate
- Knobs
- 4 3 presets
- Night lights
- 0 none
Passed the validator: real scale, rests on y = 0, front faces +Z, deterministic, planted feet never slide past 1 mm.
Use it
Code for the specimen as it is set up above; it follows your knobs.
import { createAsset } from 'https://gaitkit.com/cdn/bard.mjs';
import { walker } from 'https://gaitkit.com/runtime/walk.mjs';
const bard = createAsset();
scene.add(bard); // rests on y = 0, front faces +Z
const gait = walker(bard, { ground: (x, z) => terrainHeight(x, z) }); // or omit ground for a flat floor
let dist = 0;
renderer.setAnimationLoop(() => {
dist += speed * clock.getDelta();
bard.position.z = dist;
gait.poseAt(dist); // feet stay planted, at any frame rate
renderer.render(scene, camera);
});import { useMemo, useRef } from 'react';
import { useFrame } from '@react-three/fiber';
import { createAsset } from 'https://gaitkit.com/cdn/bard.mjs';
import { walker } from 'https://gaitkit.com/runtime/walk.mjs';
export function Bard({ speed = 1 }) {
const model = useMemo(() => createAsset(), []);
const gait = useMemo(() => walker(model), [model]);
const dist = useRef(0);
useFrame((_, dt) => {
dist.current += speed * dt;
model.position.z = dist.current;
gait.poseAt(dist.current); // feet stay planted, at any frame rate
});
return <primitive object={model} />;
}# Import bard.glb (download below). It carries an in-place "Walk" animation.
@onready var anim: AnimationPlayer = $Bard/AnimationPlayer
func _physics_process(delta):
velocity = transform.basis.z * speed
move_and_slide()
anim.play("Walk")
anim.speed_scale = speed / 1.095 # Walk clip covers 1.095 m/s at 1x// Import bard.glb with glTFast (com.unity.cloud.gltfast).
animator.Play("Walk");
animator.speed = speed / 1.095 // Walk clip covers 1.095 m/s at 1x
// Humanoid: the root node's extras.humanoid maps Unity bone names to nodes (Hips → body, Head → head …).Use the gaitkit MCP server: get_variant({ "id": "bard", "want": "default look" })
then place the result and walk it with walker() so the feet stay planted.
# MCP endpoint
https://gaitkit.com/mcpKnobs
| Knob | Type | Values | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
style | choice | realistic stylized chibi blocky | stylized | Art style of the whole figure: realistic (about 7 heads tall), stylized (5.5 heads, chunky game look), chibi (big head, 1.1 m) or blocky (voxel boxes). |
lute | choice | back hands | back | Where the lute is: slung diagonally on the back while the arms swing, or held across the belly ready to play (right hand at the strings, left hand on the neck). |
outfit | choice | scarlet plum teal saffron | scarlet | Doublet, sleeve puffs, hat, feather and cape colours: scarlet (red and gold, white feather), plum (purple, gold feather), teal (teal and cream, red feather) or saffron (mustard and wine, green feather). |
presentation | choice | masculine feminine neutral | masculine | Body shape and grooming: masculine (moustache, short hair), feminine (long hair, narrower waist) or neutral. |
Presets: tavern singer {"lute":"hands","outfit":"scarlet"} · court minstrel {"lute":"back","outfit":"plum","presentation":"feminine","style":"realistic"} · wandering poet {"lute":"hands","outfit":"teal","presentation":"neutral","style":"chibi"}
Files
| File | What |
|---|---|
| bard.glb | GLB, default look · 267 KB |
| bard.mjs | ES module, every knob live |
| bard.obj | OBJ, static, no colour |
| bard-params.json | knob schema, presets, night zones |
Licence
Use it in games, apps, renders and client work, commercially and without credit. Do not resell it as an asset or train a 3D generator on it. The full licence.