BRUTAL HERETIC RPG (ZDL Edition) v6.5

[UncleRusty]

Uncle Rusty its great to hear from you! I'm ok having some bad days but who doesn't right, I hope you are good.

Thats great to hear you started up the updated mods, should be more fun with the new episodes. To celebrate the new Heretic+Hexen release we updated the ZDL Steam Edition to include Dual Mode (Light/Dark theme) and Grey Mode (Locked grey theme) Free to download so grab yourself the new ZDL v5.4.

Ok the new update isnt ready yet as we need to upscale to rest of the new sprites but I have finished the HUD for Brutal Hexen so its now fully scalable, when the update is out work will begin on Brutal Heretic to update the HUD etc.

Thanks so much for showcasing the issues with 32:9, look how bad and washed out gzdoom colors are and its way too bright. I can only replicate the resolution and I get like 0.1 FPS but thats all I need to debug the issue.

Also the HUD is stretched on Brutal Hexen 32:9 can you please try and force the aspect ratio to 21:9 try and get the HUD elements the same size dimensions as the screenshots here.

Thanks again Uncle Rusty for all the help, please get the new ZDL its free to download and please show me a screenshot of ZDL at 32:9!

Take care Uncle Rusty and hope to speak soon.

e belo
Thanks for the additional info, glad to hear you're still working on an additional update! I did test out the HUD options as well in Brutal Hexen, for both NZDoom and GZDoom. In Hexen, I'd say the weapon scaling looks a lot better and I don't beleive the weapons are getting stretched.

And yes regarding the colors, in Heretic NZDoom over GZDoom does make a big difference, as it NZdoom looks much better since it seems to add a lot of shadows to the scene. Interestingly though, NZDoom vs GZdoom for Brutal Heretic look roughly the same to me in terms of visuals and shadows. Note that I am using HDR injection via SpecialK, so those images aren't exactly what I see since windows screen capture doesn't support HDR, and I don't think imgur does either for uploading jpegs.

One last note, so I did try to test out forcing the image scaling to 21:9 in both Brutal Heretic and Hexen in NZdoom. This results in the whole image getting stretched to 21:9 aspect ratio, so on my 32:9 monitor this looks similar to as if you were to strech a 4:3 image to 16:9, so not good. Gzdoom doesn't fully suppport 32:9 either technically, but it does work with the correct FoV. In either case, it seems like whatever updates you've added to Hexen over Heretic, do fix the weapon scaling issue at both 21:9 and 32:9, so looking forward to the next release for Heretic to add the new sprites/scaling fix as well!

PS, I joined your patreon as a supporter so I can continue to support the project and the site hosting.