Road plate, studio render

Model · Site cabins, services and groundworks

Road plate

Steel plates like this cover trenches and soft ground so vehicles can cross, and the model here measures about 3.00 m by 1.50 m with a thickness of only 0.03 m. It has two named material slots, construction site metal and construction site dark, and five textures are embedded in the GLB.

Three assemblies in the Site cabins, services and groundworks pack use it: the excavation corner, the foundation works and the temporary site services. That spread makes it one of the more reusable parts in the pack, handy for bridging any of the groundworks pieces such as the cut bank or excavation floor tile.

The detail levels are 540 triangles at high, 220 at medium and 60 at low, so a long run of plates stays cheap at the low level. The model is safe to instance with InstancedMesh, and its listed era is the 2020s.

A component from the Site cabins, services and groundworks pack, with named material slots for construction site metal and construction site dark. It measures about 3.00 m × 0.03 m × 1.50 m (W × H × D) and comes as high, medium and low detail files. Place it on its own, or load one of the 3 included assemblies that use it.

The picture is a studio render. View in 3D loads the GLB files themselves in three.js; switch between high, medium and low to compare.

Included in Site cabins, services and groundworks (£19), which contains 26 component models and 4 assemblies.

See the pack
High detail540 triangles · 67 KB
Medium detail220 triangles · 44 KB
Low detail60 triangles · 19 KB
Size (W × H × D)3.00 m × 0.03 m × 1.50 m
FormatGLB (glTF 2.0 binary)
CompressionMeshopt (EXT_meshopt_compression) + quantised; uncompressed copy in the pack
Textures5 embedded in the GLB
Material slotsconstruction site metal, construction site dark
Socketsmount-origin, floor, edge-start, edge-end
Era2020s
On mobileStart with the low level (60 triangles). What a phone can draw depends on your whole scene; no device benchmark is published yet.
InstancingSafe to instance (InstancedMesh)

Load it in three.js

import { GLTFLoader } from 'three/addons/loaders/GLTFLoader.js';
import { MeshoptDecoder } from 'three/addons/libs/meshopt_decoder.module.js';

const loader = new GLTFLoader().setMeshoptDecoder(MeshoptDecoder);
const { scene: model } = await loader.loadAsync('models/construction-site-road-plate/high-construction-site-road-plate.glb');
scene.add(model); // 1 unit = 1 metre, origin at the mount socket

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