How to View Avaceratops in 3D
Avaceratops 3D Viewer runs a Late Cretaceous Montana ceratopsid with a solid frill - length about 2.3 m (holotype) to about 4.2 m (referred adult; Size vs human uses 4.2 m), mass about 1 tonne. Drag, zoom, toggle a 1.8 m person, and click frill, horn, or leg.
Open the Avaceratops page and take the camera
Open the Avaceratops 3D Viewer and wait for the facts panel to fill. When the status line says you can drag, orbit Avaceratops 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 frilled ceratopsian silhouette with zero regression.
Use the four Avaceratops controls under the canvas
Under the Avaceratops 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 referred-adult length ratio used by the viewer (4.2 m; holotype about 2.3 m stays disclosed)
Read the Avaceratops facts panel and click a body part
The Avaceratops facts panel lists length about 2.3 m (holotype; maturity debated) to about 4.2 m (referred skull MOR 692 adult estimate; Size vs human uses 4.2 m), standing height about 1.5-1.8 m at the hips for a larger individual (panel 1.6 m), mass about 1 tonne for a roughly 4 m animal (Paul 2010; panel 1000 kg), the Late Cretaceous Campanian window about 77 million years ago in the Judith River Formation of Montana, herbivore diet, and naming from Dodson 1986 (type species A. lammersi). A short click - not a drag - on the frill, a horn, or a leg 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. For larger ceratopsids see the Triceratops 3D Viewer and the Albertaceratops 3D Viewer.
What the Avaceratops how-to guide is not
The Avaceratops 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 claim the holotype was a full-grown adult at 2.3 m, 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 Avaceratops size comparison. For trade-offs versus phone AR apps see Avaceratops 3D viewer vs AR apps.
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