Heretic w/ 3D spatial sound in GZDoom 🎧 (OpenAL Soft HRTF audio) 25th anniversary!
17USE HEADPHONES ONLY with any virtual surround like Windows Sonic turned off. Best HRTF effects at 0:08, 2:52, 6:20, and 8:01.
It is December 23rd 2019, the 25th anniversary of the cult classic fantasy FPS game, Heretic. While not Raven Software's first FPS game, it was the game that propelled the small Wisconsin studio into stardom. Heretic started Raven's long-running partnership with id Software. Basically, John Carmack would make the engine, id's designers would make the first tech demo for the engine, and then Raven would come along and create the perfected take on id's engine. While not a huge innovation gameplay-wise over Doom 1 & 2, Heretic saw massive improvements to IDTech 1 that allowed for more complex, colorful environments, the ability to look up and down, and even a powerup that allowed players to fly.
It was this recipe for success that went on to create many more IDTech masterpieces, such as the innovative Hexen also on the Doom engine, Hexen II on the Quake 1 engine, Heretic II and Soldier of Fortune on the Quake 2 engine, Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, the Star Wars: Jedi Knight games, and Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix on IDTech 3, and Quake 4 and Wolfenstein on IDTech 4. Sadly, after the massive flop of Singularity at the hands of Activision, Raven Software has been regulated to Call of Duty DLC development ever since 2010. It's a heartbreaking turn of events, but at least we'll always have the memories that all started with Heretic in 1994.
Note that I'm playing the game with a small set of HD sounds by Per Kristian, the author of the Doom HQ soundpack. Back in 2013, he uploaded an incomplete set of HD sounds onto Doomworld. Over half the pack was unfaithful to the real Heretic sounds, but I was still able to extract the few faithful ones into a PWAD.
HRTF grade:
B+
Settings:
Windows Control Panel: Stereo
HRTF: On
Resampler: Linear
EFX: On
IRC_1037 HRTF tables placed in %APPDATA%/OpenAL/HRTF
(in alsoft.ini located in %APPDATA%)
channels=stereo
frequency=48000
stereo-mode=headphones
cf_level=0
sample-type=float32
sources=1024
periods=3
default-hrtf=irc_1037_48000
hrtf=true
hrtf-mode=full
resampler=cubic
drivers="-dsound"
Links:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/547441642555310092/658837882286637067/pk_heretic_sfx.zip
http://openal-soft.org/
https://mega.nz/#!OTpDkQhY!i6NIUTAwopa2pilAiEL-pBxPOzrPLD_vHQMcCRdFLLs
(download personalized HRTF presets here)
Credits:
https://images.launchbox-app.com/ddb85958-aaa9-45fd-a3da-2273da45b174.png
(Logo copyrighted by Raven Software. Use of this logo falls under fair use laws for non-profit usage.)
#heretic #ravensoftware #3dsound #spatialaudio #binaural #3daudio #360audio #8daudio #hrtf #mod #headphones #audiophile #gameaudio #gzdoom #mod
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