Presidential Day — 17 hours at the White House complex from briefing to state dinner
A 3D mega-world: 10 sub-locations across the White House complex (Oval, Sit Room, Press Briefing, Rose Garden, Cabinet, State Dining, Helipad with Marine One, Motorcade, Press Pool, Residence), 101 named characters, 23 acts from sunrise to lights out, THREATCON meter and live chyron.
Built with:
three.js r0.160 (single file)Procedural White House complex geometryMarine One rotor + downwash particles + motorcade drift
Prompt
Build a single-file HTML page that recreates "a day in the life of the White House complex" as a continuous 3D autoplay world I could put on Twitch and have viewers stay for hours. Tone is West-Wing-meets-CSPAN: serious, cinematic, fictional administration only — never reference any real President or living politician.
Hard constraints:
- One HTML file, < 200KB.
- three.js r0.160.0 from unpkg, IIFE, strict mode, full disposable cleanup, reseed every ~10 min with a new fictional administration.
- First body line: <!-- ROUND15_MEGA v1 -->
- 10 spatial sub-locations in one three.js scene: Oval Office, Situation Room, Press Briefing room, Rose Garden, Cabinet Room, State Dining Room, Helipad (with Marine One model and downwash), Motorcade, Press Pool, Residence.
- Mini-map in HUD showing all 10 locations + active hotspot.
- 100+ named characters: POTUS, VP, Chief of Staff, Press Sec, SecState, SecDef, JCS Chair, NSA, full cabinet, press corps with bylines, USSS detail with code names, foreign delegation, staff.
- 23-act timeline 06:00 → 23:00: pre-dawn ⇒ PDB ⇒ Oval briefings ⇒ cabinet meeting ⇒ press briefing ⇒ Rose Garden bill signing ⇒ foreign delegation ⇒ Marine One lift to Andrews ⇒ motorcade return ⇒ state dinner ⇒ evening residence ⇒ lights out. Include one THREATCON curveball mid-day (e.g. 10:30) that escalates LOW → ELEVATED briefly then deescalates.
- 23 director cameras, auto-cycling every ~7s.
- HUD: clock, cam tag, schedule with done/now markers, mini-map, THREATCON meter (LOW → SEVERE), scrolling chyron, lower-third name strap, breaking-news banner.
- Day/night sky cycle, sun + hemisphere lighting, fireplace + candelabra flicker, flag wave, rotor spin with downwash particles, motorcade drift.
Tone: completely fictional administration. No real names. No partisanship. The vibe is "behind-the-scenes prestige drama" not political commentary.
Paste this into Claude, Cursor, or Copilot. Change one thing that matters to you.
What I learned shipping it
- How to model the White House complex as a coherent 3D space with 10 venues you can name on a minimap
- How to script 23 timeline acts that mirror a real presidential daily schedule (PDB, Cabinet, presser, signing, motorcade, state dinner) with a single THREATCON curveball that gives the day a story arc
- How to build a Marine One liftoff with rotor blur + downwash particles + camera shake that's clean enough to run on a 17-hour autoplay loop