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Rotating dish

A low-poly 4 m ground-station dish from the Mars Colony kit. A white faceted reflector with an orange feed horn hangs on a yoke above a rust-red turntable, a banded white pedestal and a concrete plinth with a small equipment cabinet. The dish turns a full circle and nods toward the sky on a seamless 12-second loop.

Original GLB142 KB Poster

Left rail: colours and the 4 knobs the agent wrote into this model — they rebuild the geometry and go into your download. Right rail: looks for the viewer. Drag to orbit, scroll to zoom.

Triangles: 1,524
Vertices: 4,572
Meshes · materials: 24 · 24
Size (W × H × D): 5.1 m × 6.1 m × 5.3 m
File: GLB · 142 KB
Animation: dish-rotate · 12.0s
Style: Low-poly
Collection: Mars Colony

Palette · named materials

body#f4f1ec
trim#d7cebc
accent#ed7e1d
base#c32222
metal#7d828c
dark#1b1b22
panel#2e67b8
dust#821717

Use it

import { GLTFLoader } from "three/addons/loaders/GLTFLoader.js";

const gltf = await new GLTFLoader().loadAsync(
  "https://assets.stoicsoft.com/1designtool/3d/models/mars-colony-rotating-dish/3603b78820/model.glb"
);
scene.add(gltf.scene); // metres, +Y up, front faces +Z

const mixer = new THREE.AnimationMixer(gltf.scene);
gltf.animations.forEach((clip) => mixer.clipAction(clip).play());
// in your loop: mixer.update(delta)

How it was made

The brief given to 1DesignTool's “3D object” template:

Rotating dish for the Mars Colony kit. Design it as one clear asset at believable real-world scale for that setting (state the size in metres in meta.notes), with its main parts modelled and named, readable at thumbnail size and from every orbit angle. It moves: author a seamless baked loop (2–12 s) with every pivot exactly at its hinge, axle or swivel, and keep the base still. This is one part of the Mars Colony kit (Low-poly style, flat-lowpoly direction): A first settlement on red dust. Use ONLY the kit palette, by name: rust red #c32222, white #f4f1ec, solar blue #2e67b8, hazard orange #ed7e1d, rust red dark #821717, white dark #d7cebc, rust red light #db5757, white light #f9f8f6, soot black #1b1b22, warm white #f2ede2, mid grey #7d828c, dark wood #3d2a1c. Every material's `name` must be exactly the palette colour it uses — the GLB carries these names so the kit recolours as one; an unnamed material fails delivery. Kit knob: expose a param `dustStormLevel` (0–1, default 0.5) for the kit's "Dust storm level" setting wherever it makes sense on this part, and keep that id.

Agent: Claude Code · Claude Opus 5.5 in 1DesignTool
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Direction: Low-poly · family abstract-kinetic
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Named parts · 31

Rotating dish (root)
Static base
Concrete plinth
Anchor bolts
Pedestal
Hazard bands
Azimuth bearing
Cabinet assembly
Equipment cabinet
Cabinet door seam
Cabinet solar panel
Panel post
Cable conduit
Dust drifts
Azimuth assembly
Azimuth pivot (animated)
Turntable
Yoke arms
Elevation bearing caps
Elevation assembly
Elevation pivot (animated)
Elevation axle
Reflector hub
Counterweight
Reflector face
Reflector back shell
Rim band
Back ribs
Feed horn
Feed housing
Feed struts

Note: Real scale: a 4 m dish whose elevation axle sits 3.3 m up, on a 2.5 m-wide octagonal plinth. At t = 0 the model is 4.12 (X) × 5.57 (Y) × 3.75 (Z) m. Over the loop the dish sweeps a 4.64 m-wide circle and reaches 5.62 m high. Origin is at the bottom centre, the model rests on y = 0, and at t = 0 the dish faces +Z. The GLB carries one clip, 'dish-rotate' (12 s, 30 fps samples). Only two nodes move: 'mars-colony-rotating-dish.azimuth' makes one full counter-clockwise turn (seen from above) about the vertical pedestal axis, and 'mars-colony-rotating-dish.elevation' nods ±10° twice about the horizontal elevation axle. Both pivots sit exactly on their bearings, and the loop is seamless (t = 0 and t = 12 s give the same pose). The baker also writes constant translation and scale tracks on those two nodes; they never change. The plinth, pedestal, bearing, cabinet and dust drifts never move. dustStormLevel sets how many dust drifts are banked against the plinth (2 to 8, 5 at the default) and how tall they are (0.04 to 0.28 m). All params are baked at export, so the GLB holds the defaults. Material names are the Mars Colony palette names, so the kit can recolour every part at once. The exporter writes one material per mesh, so names repeat: 24 materials, 8 distinct names. 1524 triangles. Every primitive is non-indexed with per-face normals, so the flat facets survive in any engine. The brown ground disc in the preview is viewer staging only and is not in the GLB. glb-lint reports 0 errors. Its 5 warnings are heuristics: material count and repeated names (from the per-mesh export), non-indexed primitives (needed for flat shading), overlapping part bounds (bolts, bands and drifts are deliberately embedded in the plinth and pedestal), and scale (it compares this 5.6 m dish with the direction's 1 m reference height). Its verdict reads UNVERIFIED only because no requirements contract was supplied. The plan-level part ids 'rotatingdish', 'rotatingdish.base', 'rotatingdish.yaw' and 'rotatingdish.pitch' have no hyphens, following the convention used by other library assets; every sub-part uses the mars-colony-rotating-dish.* ids.