Introducing Steam Mania, the newest package available on M-Builder.

Steam Mania is the latest package for M-Builder created in most efficient and optimized way . With Steam Mania you can bring your buildings to the age of steampunk and create much more innovative buildings. In the following there are some more technical information and also new features added to this package which wasn’t in previous ones.

Technical information :

Models : Steam Mania gives you access to use 216 objects with the following categories:

Structures :

§ Floors : 7 Floor plane objects in different sizes

§ Walls : 54 Wall objects with new shapes with most efficient way .

§ Doors: 20 objects related to door

§ Roofs : 29 objects relate to roofs

§ Chimney : 6 chimney objects

§ Cornice : 6 objects related to cornice

§ Pillars : 6 objects

§ Pipes : 11 pipe objects to make your building look more steampunk

§ Elevators : 23 objects for elevator parts

Decorative :

§ Clocks : 14 objects related to clocks and gauges

§ Rays : 24 light rays with 4 different colors

§ Lamps : 6 objects for street lights, wall lamps .

§ Others : 10 objects such as chambers, lamp, fan, valve and… which couldn’t have a unique category name

Materials : Steam Mania gives you a huge variety of exciting materials for your objects. Here are the materials list

Ø Colors : 10 simple color materials

Ø Emissive : 6 simple emissive color materials

Ø Bricks : Enjoy 22 new amazing brick materials

Ø Metal Sheets : 25 new materials related to metal sheets

Ø Pavements : 14 new materials for pavements

Ø Glasses : 5 semitransparent materials for glass

Ø NightGlass : 6 Night Glass materials

Note: Some of our objects are unwrap base like before which means you can’t change their materials and assign above materials to them

Note : The meshes and materials mentioned in this article are the base files of this asset and it may have some changes in amount ( increase ) and also names of categories when releasing

Light Rays in Steam Mania package :

Due to some performance issues in huge metaverse worlds ( which is not limited just to just a small are like a building), some light effects such as glow and rays for emissive lights are wasted and can not be shown. But in this package we tried to decrease this limitation by adding some light rays objects which are very optimized and doesn’t add any extra light calculations to the scene. By the light rays users can have rays and glow for their lamps and also night lit house glasses. Light rays are accessible in Steam Mania with four different colors in Decorative objects and in a tab with name “Rays”

Night Glass Materials :

Have you ever noticed the houses with their glowing glass at night?

With night glass materials which is another new feature in Steam Mania package you can create an emissive semitransparent materials for your glass so that you have a glowing glass which you can see inside them. In other world “ Night Glass “ materials are the combination of “ Glass “ and “Emissive” materials and if they be used with ray objects, they will give you a suitable effect for your house.

Letter of (i) on up left part of a model icon

As we are adding a new very powerful interaction component system to our builder named “Game maker” and certainly you will have this system in your builder before Steam Mania package is released, you can create more interactive models in your scene unlike previous versions which all models were static .As an example an animating fan, a clock with rotating hands and etc … . Letter(i) on top left part of an object Icon is a suggestive word that recommend you to use that object with an correct interaction to achieve a more advanced result. In bellow picture on the right side you see a roof with a fan which is our “Roof_C_02” object in the “ roof” category . This model is a single object that means if you use this object in your scene you can’t use interaction system to animate it’s fan separately and that’s why it’s icon which is the left image has no (i) mark .

But in bellow picture we have that roof but without the fan blades. This is our “Roof_C_05” object in the roof section. If you look on the left image which is it’s icon in builder you see a word (i) near it’s type on the top left that shows this object have some interactive dependencies like “fan blade” .

Also in bellow picture you see the fan blades object which is our “fan01” model in “ Others” section. If you see it’s icon it has the letter (i) too.

Let’s see another example . You see we have another object in “ Others” section which is a frame for fan blades and again we have the letter (i) for that icon.

For a result if you combine the roof with (i) mark with the fan blade with mark (i) you have something like “Roof_C_02” in above picture but with a difference. Unlike Roof_C_02 which was just one static mesh (Roof_C_05 + fan01 ) gives you a similar result with same amount of vertices but with 2 separate objects and if you add a “Transform” component with a loop rotation animation to the fan01 object you can have a roof with animated rotating fan.

Also if you bring the fan01 with it’s frame shown above, and add “Transform” component to the fan blades with a loop rotation animation, you will have a complete wall animated fan that you can use anywhere you want.

Note : Bear in mind that letter (i) ( or in some cases may be (I) which have the same meaning) is just a suggestion for you and doesn’t limit your innovation at all . You can use objects with (i) as they are and there will be no problem about that.