BloodRayne with 3D spatial sound (OpenAL Soft HRTF audio)
8Use headphones only with any virtual surround features turned off. Best HRTF effect at 3:43.
This is a demonstration of BloodRayne with 3D sound using OpenAL Soft's HRTF through DSOAL. I tested this game because it said it supported EAX 3.0, but it didn't seem to use any effects. Regardless, this game has pretty decent binaural audio with DSOAL. It really adds a lot of depth to the world, especially with all the ambient steam pipes in this level. Pretty impressive stuff for a console port, don't you think? I did notice that towards the second half of the recording, it seemed like some sounds wouldn't play. I assume it either has to do with the buffers or too many sound channels playing at once.
For those of you who don't know about this series, BloodRayne was an early 2000s game franchise that gained a lot of notoriety for being one of the most blatant examples of "Sex Sells" in gaming. How blatant, you ask? Try officially-endorsed nude renders in Playboy. Yeah, this franchise is pretty much a joke nowadays thanks to that disasterous marketing campaign and the Uwe Boll movies, although Wayforward sure gave their best shot at rebooting BloodRayne back in 2011.
HRTF grade:
A
Settings:
Windows Control Panel: Stereo
gamePIXY=720
gamePIXX=1280 (you may need to set rayne.ini to read-only)
Acceleration: 3D
IRC_1037 HRTF tables placed in %APPDATA%/OpenAL/HRTF
(in alsoft.ini located in %APPDATA%)
channels=stereo
frequency=44100
stereo-mode=headphones
cf_level=0
sample-type=float32
periods=3
period_size=1024
default-hrtf=irc_1037_44100
hrtf=true
Links:
https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/65094
http://recherche.ircam.fr/equipes/salles/listen/
http://repo.or.cz/dsound-openal.git
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/bloodrayne-others-confirmed-for-playboy-spread/1100-6105956/ (I wasn't joking)
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/bloodrayne-to-appear-in-new-mtv2-show/1100-6105460/ (lol)
Credits:
http://www.majescoent.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/BloodRayne_logo-1024x489.png
(Use of this logo falls under fair use laws.)
#3dsound #spatialaudio #binaural #3daudio #hrtf #headphones #audiophile #gameaudio #mod #bloodrayne
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