Garry's Mod

Garry's Mod

MINERVA: Metastasis
fixing the in-game text overlays from 'Minerva'
so, if you are like me, and REALLY want to see the text overlays that 'Minerva' sends you throughout Metastasis, heres how to do it, first, go to the Minerva: Metastasis store page, install the game, (it's free) once it has finished installing, find the Metastasis folder in Steamapps\common\MINERVA

for OSX users, thats at
"Macintosh HD\Users\[YOUR USERNAME]\Library\Application Support\Steam\SteamApps\common\MINERVA\

for Windows users, thats at
C:\steamcmd\steamapps\common\MINERVA\

once you've located the MINERVA folder, open it, and locate the sub-folder titled 'scripts' open that folder, inside, there should be a file named 'titles.txt' copy that, (ctrl+c, or cmd+c) and locate your Garry's Mod directory, at

"Macintosh HD\Users\[YOUR USERNAME]\Library\Application Support\Steam\SteamApps\common\GarrysMod\garrysmod\

or

C:\steamcmd\steamapps\common\GarrysMod\garrysmod\

create a new folder in your Garry's Mod directory, and name it 'scripts' without the quotations,
then paste the file that you copied from the scripts folder in the MINERVA directory, into the folder that you just created inside your Garry's Mod directory,

close the Window's Explorer, or Finder windows, restart your Steam Client, then launch Gmod, and play the Metastasis maps, the text overlays should now appear without issue


QUICK UPDATE! so, i was trying to load Metastasis 4a, the first of the two maps where everythings been blown to ♥♥♥♥, and i've come across a map-breaking issue, when the map loads, your camera angle is fixed on a spot, just like it is in Half Life 2: Episode 1 when D0g saves you from the rubble, now, when i was running the map without the titles.txt file in place, the map worked fine, i was freed from teh camera lock when i was supposed to be, and i could go on with the map, but after placing the titles.txt file into the garrysmod directory, i've found that i am unable to escape that forced camera lock, im gonna be looking through the METASTASIS scripts folder again, seeing if there's anything i missed, now i have to be careful with what i include, or it will start overwriting addons, meaning that some of your addons will cease to function properly. i know that when i merged my Metastasis folder with my garrysmod directory a few months ago, it completly fcked up CW 1.0, FA:S 2, GDCW, AND M9K, not to mention it deleted the reload sounds for Pillar's HALO Sweps, so yeah, im working on a solution, for now, just either do without the text overlays, or skip that map "metastasis_4a"
Last edited by Grieving_Tatsunoko; 10 May, 2015 @ 11:53am
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Nixel  [developer] 6 May, 2015 @ 3:48am 
Thanks for making this, I'm sure it'll be very useful to a lot of people!
Originally posted by Nixel:
Thanks for making this, I'm sure it'll be very useful to a lot of people!


no prob, i was rather proud of myself for actually coming up with a solution to something, so i went ahead and put it out there, and since i myself play on a Mac, i know firsthand how frustrating it is to have very few guides that tell Mac users how to fix things on Steam
Will this still work if I put the .txt file in the already existing scripts folder, or do I have to create 2 seperate scripts folders
Grieving_Tatsunoko 10 May, 2015 @ 11:46am 
Originally posted by =(e)= Son:
Will this still work if I put the .txt file in the already existing scripts folder, or do I have to create 2 seperate scripts folders


there shouldnt be a scripts folder in your garrysmod directory, not without you adding one, since maps that are played on Garry's Mod come in one of two categories: those that have been mounted, like Portal TF2, CS:S, HL2, Ep2, Ep1, etc,

and those from addons, which have all the necessary files pre-oacked into the .bsp map file, and then into the .gma addon file,

but if you already have a scripts folder in your garrysmod directory, sure, go ahead and place the titles.txt file in there, it should work,

to sate my curiousity, what else is in that scripts folder?
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