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Game props that actually work: rigged machines, appliances and Unreal plugins

An excavator with working hydraulics, a cash register where every key works, appliances with doors and drums that move, and Unreal plugins that build roads, fences and a true-scale solar system.

A prop that just sits there is set dressing. A prop that works is gameplay. Almost everything on Exaro Assets is built as the object really is, with separate parts, a rig and animation clips, so your player can open it, press it, drive it or break it.

Machines

The crawler excavator: hydraulics, hoses, tracks and wear

The Crawler Excavator, 20-Tonne Class ($99.99) is built as a working machine, not a statue. The boom, arm and bucket cylinders stay pinned to their lugs through the whole stroke, the bucket linkage is solved for every frame so nothing slides or stretches, and the hoses pay out as the joints move. The undercarriage is built shoe by shoe.

The heavy bomber on a sunset airfield

The WWII Heavy Bomber ($149.99) has spinning propellers, traversing turrets, opening bomb-bay doors and a full crew interior you can walk nose to tail: bombardier's station, flight deck, bomb bay, radio room and waist guns.

Also rigged and animated: the Concord Stagecoach with its harnessed team and a rear-loader Garbage Truck with a cart tipper and tilt cab.

Props with gameplay built in

The cash register ringing up a sale

The Working Cash Register ($39.99) works the way a shop register works: amounts keyed in cents, 20 departments, preset items, voids, refunds, tax, split tenders, X and Z reports, live displays, and a receipt that prints. It fires Blueprint events and comes with a cashier mini-game. The cash register docs explain the events.

Around the house: a French Door Fridge with 19 animations, a Front-Loading Washing Machine whose door opens and drum spins, a Snack & Drink Vending Machine where every key and slot is animated, and a Grandfather Clock with a swinging pendulum and moving hands.

The vending machine turning a coil and dropping an item

Unreal plugins

  • Exaro Road & Street Builder ($79.99): draw a road and it builds the street along it, with lanes, curbs, sidewalks and markings, graded into your landscape. Cross two roads and the junction builds itself, signals included. 15 road types. Docs.
  • Exaro Fence & Wall Builder ($49.99): draw a spline and get a finished fence or wall, with posts spaced by real construction rules, corners, gates, wear and collision. 16 styles, each with a low-poly version. Docs.
  • Celestial Bodies ($99.99): the Sun, the planets, the Moon and Pluto at true scale, with a 64K Earth and atmospheric entry from orbit to the ground in one flight. Docs.

Made with our own tools

These assets were built in our studio with the tools behind Exaro Model, which lets the AI you already use build rigged 3D models in Blender, with live checks and construction kits for parts that have to fit, join and move. And Exaro Unreal lets that same AI place them in your level, wire up the Blueprints and test them in Play.

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