Sand Floor 3D model
Sand Floor from the Realistic Surfaces & Structure pack in TerrainTale's library. Paint it with the tile brush or pick it as a room kit floor; it tiles on the 5-foot grid and follows the terrain.
- Folder
- Floor tiles and ground surfaces
- Pack
- Realistic Surfaces & Structure
- Author
- ambientCG; trees grown with ez-tree by Daniel Greenheck (MIT)
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 (public domain)
- Size
- 5 ft by 5 ft, 0 in tall (covers about 1 by 1 squares)
- Format
- GLB (binary glTF 2.0)
- File size
- 287 KB
About this model
A pale sand surface in warm cream and tan, finely grained with soft ripples. It looks like a beach or a desert flat on a calm day. Each tile covers a single 5 ft square and lies flat.
Use it for beaches, desert camps, arenas, dried riverbeds and the floors of sunken tombs. A wide spread of sand feels hot and empty, and small objects placed on it stand out sharply. Deep, soft sand is often ruled difficult terrain, and it is a natural place for things to burrow underneath and surface without warning.
Ideas for the table
- A bulette tunnels beneath an arena's sand while gladiators fight above.
- Shipwreck survivors defend a beach from crab folk at low tide.
- The entrance to a desert tomb is buried under drifting sand that the party must dig out before the storm returns.
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