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Worker Ant, A giant worker ant, about 40 cm long (real workers are under 1 cm), with a head, thorax and big gaster, elbowed antennae and mandibles. Walks with an alternating tripod gait like a real insect.
Creature · Walks on 6 legs

Worker Ant

A giant worker ant, about 40 cm long (real workers are under 1 cm), with a head, thorax and big gaster, elbowed antennae and mandibles. Walks with an alternating tripod gait like a real insect.

Size
0.37 × 0.23 × 0.50 m
Triangles
1,534
Open in the lab Walk clip inside. The download carries the knobs you set here.

Tune it

4 knobs: Colour, Size, Gaster size, Mandibles.

Specs

Size
0.37 × 0.23 × 0.50 m
width × height × depth
Triangles
1,534
of 6,000
Draw calls
1
one vertex-colour material
Legs
6
2 gait groups
Stride
9 cm
duty factor 0.55
Foot slide
0.00 mm
limit 1 mm
Walk clip
0.225 m/s
at playback speed 1
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.

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

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

let dist = 0;
renderer.setAnimationLoop(() => {
  dist += speed * clock.getDelta();
  workerAnt.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
colorchoiceblack red honeyblackblack (common garden ant), red (fire ant / red wood ant, darker gaster), honey (amber ant with a golden, honeypot-style gaster).
sizerange0.3 to 3, step 0.051Uniform scale. 1 is about 40 cm long; 3 is a giant monster ant you could ride.
gasterrange0.7 to 1.8, step 0.051Size of the big rear abdomen (gaster). 0.7 is slim; 1.6 and up is a swollen honeypot ant.
mandiblesrange0.6 to 2, step 0.051Length of the jaws. Above 1.5 reads as a big-jawed soldier ant.

Presets: soldier {"color":"red","mandibles":1.9,"size":1.2} · honeypot {"color":"honey","gaster":1.75} · fire ant {"color":"red","size":0.8}

Files

FileWhat
worker-ant.glbGLB, default look · 213 KB
worker-ant.mjsES module, every knob live
worker-ant.objOBJ, static, no colour
worker-ant-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.