MapGyver - Creative Use of Props and Assets

[BigfootBeto]

shhhh

 

[FloofCollie]

More from Mountain Lab - this high-up door was given a cool border... which is actually a window!

 

[Scampi]

Nasty old soap dispenser made from a Frontline soupcan and Squeezit's door handle:

 

[FloofCollie]

This isn't mind-blowing, but I always assumed these rickety wood board fences were props, when in fact they're brushes with nail props here and there.
(I'm aware that the tall board/barrier has a shorter prop version)

 

[puxorb]

I've done a ton of 'mapgyver'-ing in the past and maybe I'll post move here as I find them, but this is one of my more memorable ones.

Shutter windows, hubcaps, cranks, and spytech door handles along with some brushwork makes a good stove.

 

[Suna]

These doors on glacier aren't actually props, but brush based. That alone isn't too special, until you realise that the handles are actually those spytech glass door handles which have been rotated to only show half of them.

Also on glacier, we have a train carriage that has been used as a generic oil tank prop.

 

[HueZee_]

perhaps not nearly as practical problem solving, but you can put towel racks exactly inside a shelf unit to look like its being used for a bathroom.

need beefier looking AC units for your monstrous Mann Co. Facility?
Just slap em together like they're a force of nature.

not enough rails to keep your mercs at bay? this model fits into itself seamlessly without clipping.

need a bigger workout, brushes over a bench look like workout benches and some brushes make a great spotting rack. and weights.

you dont have to shower with those filthy HL2 props any longer dirty mercs,

thin wedges at a 22.5 degree twist make a great industrial fan just add a motor.

displacement to be a a meme. subdivisions can save you some time slaving in blender for that nice button nobody should push.

thanks for reading. and nice work everyone i'm inspired af.

 

[pont]

dirtroad005 is great for dirtying up textures that don't have a bottom variant

 

[Cincomma]

You can use the hand_truck01 prop to give these short security fences some wheels

 

[FloofCollie]

This is off-topic but not really sure where else this would ever go...

shoutout to this completely inexplicable thin doorframe clip, out of bounds in Process

 

[Malachite Man]

You think this elevator is a prop but no...

It's just Fancy Brushwork.

 

[cnub66]

Neat little detail I noticed on ctf_retreat. Water has run through the grooves in the corrugated metal, leaving rust stains down the cliff face. I never would've thought to use this stain overlay like this.

 

[SnickerPuffs]

While a bulk of this roof *is* made using actual roof props (two instances of props_soho/metalroof001 specifically), the roof cap is upside-down 2fort gutter props!

 

[OctoBlitz]

Remembered this was a thing and decided to load up Sabotage for a sec to show you all the one thing I've been proud of regarding props and how I got these wires here on Last:

 

[I dinne ken]

I figured out recently that the way Goldrush got its gold textures to look so especially shiny even in the darkness underneath stage 1's Red spawn, is by having a hidden gold pile underneath the one you see in-game. The pile you see uses the other's cubemap instead of a cubemap of its own.

The next stage's spawnroom doesn't do this because why be consistent; and in my opinion, it looks way worse because of it.

 

[cnub66]

This sign on Yukon uses the 'Gold is Strength' poster, cropped, to make a map of a river. Very creative.

 

[Ismaciodismorphus]

Using these medieval windows in combination with a detail brush with the fakewood texture applied to them allows for semi-convincing closed windows.

 

[norfolk]

No flower pot prop? No problem!

Just use another prop that shows up while searching pot, a spotlight!

 

[BigfootBeto]

Don't delay! Add some hanger rod supports to your ceiling pipes today!

 

[Mâché]

someone told me to put this thing in this thread, though imo it isn't that much of a mapgyver
hate how the stock wooden crane props are either too big or too small or the wrong shape for your needs? just use a fuckin wagon wheel, bolts, and some brushes