Basically this adds dynamic shadows, motion blur and the new effects found in Episode 2 to Minerva.
Pics
I did this mainly because for some reason the Episode 2 is a lot more stable on my laptop than either HL2 or Episode 1. Still it has its problems, lighting seems off in the odd place but most obviously this
I’ve fiddled with the wave shader file but with no luck if anyone can help fix it, it be a great help. It messes up the menu too adding a developer’s commentary and achievement buttons to the main menu. Flashlight icon also doesn't display correctly. I haven’t played though Minerva’s entirety with this so there could well be other problems. I'm guessing once the Episode 2 SDK comes out it will be a lot easier to make this work.
To add the effects you need Half Life 2, Episode 1 and Episode 2 and then replace all the text in the gameinfo.txt found in the valve/steam/username/steamapps/sourcemods/metastasis folder with this
Code:
"GameInfo"
{
game "MINERVA: Metastasis"
title "MINERVA: Metastasis"
title2 "MINERVA: Metastasis"
type singleplayer_only
developer "Adam Foster"
developer_url "http://www.hylobatidae.org/minerva/"
icon "icon"
FileSystem
{
SteamAppId 420
ToolsAppId 211
SearchPaths
{
Game |gameinfo_path|.
Game ep2
Game episodic
Game hl2
}
}
}
Thanks to SlowJoe45 and his thread at
http://forums.facepunchstudios.com/showthread.php?t=445567&highlight=motion+blur that helped me to create this.