How to View Alioramus in 3D
Alioramus 3D Viewer runs a Late Cretaceous Mongolian long-snouted tyrannosaurid - length about 5.5 m, mass about 500 kg. Drag, zoom, toggle a 1.8 m person, and click a body region.
Open the Alioramus page and take the camera
Open the Alioramus 3D Viewer and wait for the facts panel to fill. When the status line says you can drag, orbit Alioramus with the pointer and zoom with the scroll wheel or a two-finger pinch. Fullscreen expands the wrapper so the controls stay visible beside the scene. After first paint a license-clean CC-BY-SA 4.0 glTF may swap in automatically from the CDN; if that load fails the page stays on the procedural theropod silhouette with zero regression.
Use the four Alioramus controls under the canvas
Under the Alioramus canvas, four controls handle view and scale:
- Fullscreen - fills the display while keeping the buttons visible
- Stop rotation / Auto-rotate - freezes or resumes auto-spin
- Idle motion - adds subtle body sway; tap again for Stand still
- Size vs human - shows a 1.8 m person at the honest panel length ratio used by the viewer (about 5.5 m)
Read the Alioramus facts panel and click a body part
The Alioramus facts panel lists length about 5.5 m (panel baseline; Kurzanov 1976 about 5-6 m; Paul 1988 about 6 m), hip height about 2.0 m (panel reconstruction baseline), mass about 500 kg (panel baseline; Paul 1988 about 700 kg; A. altai about 385 kg), the Late Cretaceous window about 72-66 million years ago in the Nemegt Formation of Mongolia, carnivore diet, and naming from Sergei Kurzanov in 1976 (Alioramus remotus) with A. altai named by Brusatte et al. in 2009. It belongs to Alioramini - a slender long-snouted branch distinct from Tarbosaurus. A short click - not a drag - on a body region surfaces a short fossil fact. Soft-tissue color is an artistic reconstruction. When the CC-BY-SA 4.0 glTF by seth the yutyrannus via Printables loads, the status text notes a real model with that credit - a stylized reconstruction, not a laser scan. This model is not a fossil-accurate skeleton. No confirmed adult specimens are known, so size stays within published estimates.
What the Alioramus how-to guide is not
The Alioramus how-to guide is a controls walkthrough for the in-browser viewer only - it does not place the model in your room (no AR), does not conflate Alioramus with Tarbosaurus, does not invent adult size beyond published estimates, does not invent soft-tissue color accuracy, does not invent game score or win states, and does not claim the optional glTF is a scientifically exact reconstruction. For the size story see Alioramus size comparison. For trade-offs versus phone AR apps see Alioramus 3D viewer vs AR apps.
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