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Tendril Plant, An alien plant about 1.2 m tall: a rosette of broad leaves around a bulbous core, sending up curling tendrils that end in glowing bulbs, some curled like fern fiddleheads, some arching over to dangle their bulb like a lantern. The bulbs glow at night.
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Tendril Plant

An alien plant about 1.2 m tall: a rosette of broad leaves around a bulbous core, sending up curling tendrils that end in glowing bulbs, some curled like fern fiddleheads, some arching over to dangle their bulb like a lantern. The bulbs glow at night.

Size
0.93 × 1.3 × 1.1 m
Triangles
1,850
Open in the lab Ready for any engine. The download carries the knobs you set here.

Tune it

4 knobs: Tendrils, Bulbs, Height, Seed.

Specs

Size
0.93 × 1.3 × 1.1 m
width × height × depth
Triangles
1,850
of 6,000
Draw calls
1
one vertex-colour material
Knobs
4
3 presets
Night lights
1
bulb

Passed the validator: real scale, rests on y = 0, front faces +Z, deterministic.

Use it

Code for the specimen as it is set up above; it follows your knobs.

JavaScript
import { createAsset } from 'https://gaitkit.com/cdn/tendril-plant.mjs';

const tendrilPlant = createAsset();
scene.add(tendrilPlant);                      // rests on y = 0, front faces +Z

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

Knobs

KnobTypeValuesDefaultWhat it does
countrange3 to 12, step 17How many tendrils rise from the plant, each ending in one glowing bulb. 3 is a sparse sprout, 12 a dense glowing bush.
bulbchoicecyan pink gold violet limecyanBulb colour and night glow: cyan, pink, gold, violet, lime. Leaves and tendrils stay deep teal.
heightrange0.4 to 3, step 0.11.2Height of the tallest tendril in metres. 0.4 is a small ground plant, 3 a towering lantern plant.
seedrange1 to 50, step 16Changes the tendril heights, lean, which ones curl into fiddleheads and which arch over to dangle their bulb. Same seed, same plant.

Presets: lantern bush {"count":12,"bulb":"gold","height":1.6,"seed":19} · pink sprout {"count":4,"bulb":"pink","height":0.6,"seed":2} · tall lure {"count":5,"bulb":"violet","height":2.8,"seed":33}

Files

FileWhat
tendril-plant.glbGLB, default look · 239 KB
tendril-plant.mjsES module, every knob live
tendril-plant.objOBJ, static, no colour
tendril-plant-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.