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Horn Beetle, A dog-sized rhinoceros beetle with a curved horn and glossy wing cases. Walks with an alternating tripod gait like a real insect.
Creature · Walks on 6 legs

Horn Beetle

A dog-sized rhinoceros beetle with a curved horn and glossy wing cases. Walks with an alternating tripod gait like a real insect.

Size
0.50 × 0.36 × 0.63 m
Triangles
1,100
Open in the lab Walk clip inside. The download carries the knobs you set here.

Tune it

4 knobs: Shell, Size, Horn, Spots.

Specs

Size
0.50 × 0.36 × 0.63 m
width × height × depth
Triangles
1,100
of 6,000
Draw calls
1
one vertex-colour material
Legs
6
2 gait groups
Stride
10 cm
duty factor 0.55
Foot slide
0.00 mm
limit 1 mm
Walk clip
0.25 m/s
at playback speed 1
Knobs
4
2 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.

JavaScript
import { createAsset } from 'https://gaitkit.com/cdn/horn-beetle.mjs';
import { walker } from 'https://gaitkit.com/runtime/walk.mjs';

const hornBeetle = createAsset();
scene.add(hornBeetle);                      // rests on y = 0, front faces +Z
const gait = walker(hornBeetle, { ground: (x, z) => terrainHeight(x, z) });   // or omit ground for a flat floor

let dist = 0;
renderer.setAnimationLoop(() => {
  dist += speed * clock.getDelta();
  hornBeetle.position.z = dist;
  gait.poseAt(dist);                  // feet stay planted, at any frame rate
  renderer.render(scene, camera);
});

More in the docs; agents can fetch all of this through MCP.

Knobs

KnobTypeValuesDefaultWhat it does
shellchoicejet emerald amber scarletjetWing-case colour family: jet (black), emerald (green), amber (orange), scarlet (red, black spots like a ladybird).
sizerange0.5 to 2.5, step 0.11Uniform scale. 1 is about 60 cm long; 2.5 is a rideable mount.
horntoggleon / offtrueLarge curved head horn (rhinoceros beetle). Off = plain beetle.
spotsrange0 to 12, step 10Number of spots on the wing cases. Use with scarlet for a ladybird look.

Presets: ladybird {"shell":"scarlet","horn":false,"spots":7} · jungle mount {"shell":"emerald","size":2.2}

Files

FileWhat
horn-beetle.glbGLB, default look · 163 KB
horn-beetle.mjsES module, every knob live
horn-beetle.objOBJ, static, no colour
horn-beetle-params.jsonknob 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.