https://talk.dengine.net/ Wed, 20 May 2026 17:18:22 +0000 en Heretic — dengine Forums https://talk.dengine.net/discussion/2949/custom-wad-in-multiplayer Sat, 05 Nov 2022 08:12:25 +0000 Heretic casey2112 2949@/discussions Any help?
I'm just using the load command from the console.]]> https://talk.dengine.net/discussion/2861/what-is-heretic-ext Mon, 24 Aug 2020 11:26:00 +0000 Heretic DavidInvenio 2861@/discussions It said the same thing when I tested out jhrp+psy-20100928.pk3 - which did seem to work pretty well but there were loads of errors in the log file and the hellstaff doesn't work so I figured I would try some other packs.
I've never heard of heretic-ext though. I have the original game heretic.wad and heretic12.wad but if there is something additional I should have then I definitely want to know! I thought those were the only 2 and that nothing more had been done with the original game.
Thanks in advance!]]> https://talk.dengine.net/discussion/2820/cheat-for-map-scroll-item Fri, 03 Apr 2020 20:47:51 +0000 Heretic Makaki 2820@/discussions
The map scroll would show unexplored areas as gray, while the "ravmap" legacy cheat reveals the who map with no indication of explored areas.

In doom, think getting the map via pickup or "idbehold" legacy cheat, vs the "iddt" legacy cheat.
]]> https://talk.dengine.net/discussion/2367/darker-heretic-pack Fri, 17 Feb 2017 20:39:47 +0000 Heretic -Doma- 2367@/discussions https://www.sendspace.com/file/yfi9t7

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This modification is really simple but the description is long, repetitive and boring.

You will lose less time trying it than reading the post.

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Darker Heretic Pack

I have made this pack for myself but I decided to share it because maybe others will like it (we live in a big world), and maybe someone can make those changes I wasn't able to do.

But let's talk about the changes I was able to do: I altered brightness, contrast, saturation and sometimes colors for textures and skins to give a more horror/dark/gothic look to the game.

I wasn't able to take screenshots, I have an old version of doomsday on an old operating system, and despite I bound a key to the "screenshot" command, I can't take them.

If you want to make screenshots or even a video you are welcome.
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List of changes

- Monsters:

Imp has a darker red and blackish skin (I think is quite scary like this).

Golem has dark "reddish" bandages (it looks like dried blood) and has a red light when shoots skulls.

Weredragon has a dark red skin and black talons

Sabreclaw has a black and grey skin, it looks a lot like Giger's Alien.

Iron Lich has a darker skin.

Disciple has black robe with dark and bright purple decorations.

Wight (tall skeleton), ophidian and mauler have stronger colors (increased saturation and played a bit with contrast and brightness)

-Items:

Statues have darker grey skin.

Vials and potions are red.

Increased brightness, contrast for tome of power, pillars and other decorations.

Exploding pods are reddish/blue.

-Textures:

Mosaics are more opaque.

Swimmiming pool textures (water temple) are greenish and less bright.

Water is greenish and less bright.

Wood textures are less bright and less satured.

Damaging mud is brown (it looks like s**t).

Lava textures have less contrast.

Castle stone textures are darker.

Many stone/iron/lava walls and stone/ground floors textures are darker.

Celtic wall textures are darker and red.

Clouds and Sea skies are darker.

Rootwall textures are reddish

Ice texture looks more like ice.

Some "art" of some textures are changed.


- Weapons:

Here's we have problems, because I wasn't able to change fx. Anyway.

Gauntlet have purple lightnings (but no purple fx)

Wand have darker hands holding the gem.

Crossbow has a more satured skin and a nice azure bolt glowing on it but the shoots and fx are less nice, (the idea was to give traslucent azure bolts for the ethereal crossbow which by default is not that ethereal).

Dragon Claw has darker more saturated skin and it should shoots green sparks, but they are green only the sparks form the claws.

Hellstaff looks scary: horns are really dark and the skull has a dark red skin, but the shoots are still the same. (The idea was to give also a darker red fx for the shoots)

Phoenix rod has a more satured skin.

Mace Rod shoots hot red balls without chrome effect.

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A couple of changes that i would have liked to add:

Changing the green glowing axes of the skeletons into dark purple glowing axes.

Making the hammer of the mauler darker.

Making the mace darker.

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That's it.

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I don't claim any credit about this work, I think also a child could do it. Use it as you want.]]> https://talk.dengine.net/discussion/2438/heretic-registered Thu, 25 May 2017 00:05:35 +0000 Heretic Anty666 2438@/discussions https://talk.dengine.net/discussion/2774/bugs-of-the-original-heretic-engine-and-doomsday Sun, 29 Dec 2019 08:28:28 +0000 Heretic svl 2774@/discussions 1. The one-time teleport linedef is deactivated if it is crossed from the back, although teleportation, of course, does not occur.
2. It is impossible to open a door if there is an linedef for some other action in front of the door.
3. There is a door. From my side, it opens with the action "D1 open stay", on the reverse side it opens with the action "DR open wait close". I open the door of D1, monsters are running at me, but they can’t go through the door, since I do not let them in, but they activate DR. After some time, I kill all the monsters, the door closes, and I can no longer open it. DR is not activated if monsters easily go through the door, only if for some reason they can’t go through the door.
4. It is impossible to lower a sector if there is a monster on it, the height of the height is greater than the height of the sector. The sector will lower if the monster is killed.]]> https://talk.dengine.net/discussion/2745/cant-play-dos-mp3-music-in-heretic Sun, 13 Oct 2019 19:09:50 +0000 Heretic paraemuladores 2745@/discussions I'm using the stable mod 2.1.1. Can't use another one because I have some very advanced playthrough in Hexen, and don't want to loose it.]]> https://talk.dengine.net/discussion/2618/heretic-wont-start-on-powerbook-g4-mac-os-10-4-tiger Mon, 12 Nov 2018 15:53:26 +0000 Heretic Gungwald 2618@/discussions https://talk.dengine.net/discussion/2581/curse-of-the-invisible-iwad Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:37:19 +0000 Heretic Ghostwise 2581@/discussions
At least this is straightforward. Fresh version of Doomsday 2.0.3 on a recent, up-to-date Windows 10 install. I've had Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders on Steam for a good while, but I still did an uninstall, install and launched it once.

Nevertheless, Doomsday doesn't see an IWAD when I point it at \Steamapps\Common\Heretic Shadow of the Serpent Riders\base . Even though the HERETIC.WAD file is most certainly there. Along with HERETIC.EXE, the dosbox resources, etc..

What should I do (beyond wail in despair and curse the Serpent Riders, of course) ?

Thanks.]]> https://talk.dengine.net/discussion/2548/mouse-issue Mon, 07 May 2018 12:12:21 +0000 Heretic Canapin 2548@/discussions https://talk.dengine.net/discussion/2512/low-fps-in-heretic Mon, 04 Dec 2017 02:03:50 +0000 Heretic paraemuladores 2512@/discussions
Edit: My hardware specs:

Processor: Intel Core2Quad Q6600 2.4 GHz
RAM: 4 GB Single channel
Motherboard: Intel DP35DP
Graphics Card: MSI Nvidia N560GTX
SO: Windows 7 64 Bits]]> https://talk.dengine.net/discussion/1795/playing-heretic-cooperative-multiplayer Sun, 25 May 2014 04:27:41 +0000 Heretic paraemuladores 1795@/discussions https://talk.dengine.net/discussion/2467/help-with-multiplayer Sat, 05 Aug 2017 14:26:47 +0000 Heretic redgamer123 2467@/discussions https://talk.dengine.net/discussion/2437/items-respawn Sun, 21 May 2017 22:40:41 +0000 Heretic Nimiria 2437@/discussions
how is the current status of items respawn for coop games? Really would love to have that option like doom has in the console ]]> https://talk.dengine.net/discussion/2360/cant-use-the-keyboard-in-heretic Sat, 21 Jan 2017 22:44:58 +0000 Heretic paraemuladores 2360@/discussions What can I do?
Thanks in advance!]]> https://talk.dengine.net/discussion/2361/using-7-1-in-de-2-0-x64 Sat, 21 Jan 2017 22:48:48 +0000 Heretic paraemuladores 2361@/discussions Thanks!!]]> https://talk.dengine.net/discussion/2341/play-heretic-in-7-1-surround Thu, 17 Nov 2016 07:03:15 +0000 Heretic paraemuladores 2341@/discussions https://talk.dengine.net/discussion/1246/trouble-with-jheretic-resource-pack-and-weapons Sun, 04 Nov 2012 10:11:56 +0000 Heretic EMan 1246@/discussions
Everything works fine, except the weapons. Some of them are barely visible at the bottom of the screen (elven rod, firemace, and gauntlets). A couple appear at the far left side (Phoenix Rod and Hellstaff). The melee staff is stuck on the far right side and the other two weapons (Ethereal Crossbow and Dragon Claw) are completely invisible (they still fire though).

I've tried running this in full screen (1920x1080, my monitors native rez) and in various windowed resolutions. I also tried changing the field of view, didn't help. What'd I do wrong?]]> https://talk.dengine.net/discussion/2222/no-graphics-option-in-heretic Tue, 29 Mar 2016 09:59:30 +0000 Heretic Professor_Darn 2222@/discussions
I recently purchased a refurbished HP Workstation laptop with Windows 7 Professional. The native graphics card of this system is the 'non-gaming' NVIDIA Quadro 3000m -a 2GB graphics card manufactured for business purposes as opposed to being a 'gaming' graphics card. That being said, however, I have 'tested' many games that I was skeptical concerning their ability to be 'playable' on high settings on my current laptop -and so far all of them have been very 'playable'....thus this NVIDIA Quadro graphics card appears to at least be fairly good for gaming.

Very recently I decided to install Doomsday on my current HP laptop. The installation of all versions of Doomsday which I have installed has been error-free and issue-free. I currently have a registered Heretic: Shadow of the Serpents wad installed on my laptop. I had this same wad on my previous laptop. On my previous laptop, when I executed this wad with Doomsday, there were countless 'options galore' in the interface menu of Heretic -including GRAPHICS options which included dozens of settings.

On my CURRENT laptop, however, when I execute this Heretic wad with Doomsday the GRAPHICS OPTIONS are completely absent from the Heretic interface: There is no GRAPHICS menu whatsoever. I have tried installing and uninstalling about 6 different versions of Doomsday engines and it's the same: No graphics options or graphics menu are to be found in my Heretic game.

Why would I have had the graphics menu and options present in the Heretic game on my TWO PREVIOUS PCs......but not on my CURRENT laptop?]]> https://talk.dengine.net/discussion/2177/error-when-load-pk3-file Sun, 10 Jan 2016 20:17:31 +0000 Heretic Stranger753roma 2177@/discussions thanks for your Amazing work!!!...Doomsday is one of my favourite project; revival old games like doom, heretic and hexen is very important for a gamer's culture. However when I start to play with heretic using the "Heretic Resource Pack (jHRP) 2010.09.28+psy" downloaded from doomsday's site, I get an error and the game start without it. The error is this:

says a message

"PK3 info error
There was an error in the metadata entry of the addon jhrp+psy-20100928-pk3, in the file C:\program files\x86\doomsday\snowberry\addons\jhrp+psy-20100928-pk3.

Please help me I really want to enjoy that game with high texture.]]> https://talk.dengine.net/discussion/2168/pwad-compatibility-quot-limit-removing-quot Fri, 25 Dec 2015 05:35:29 +0000 Heretic DavidInvenio 2168@/discussions
One common phrase I've seen often is:
Advanced engine needed : Limit-Removing Port

Q1: Can someone explain to me what a "Limit-Removing Port" is? and am I correct guessing that DE qualifies as one?

Q2: I was a bit surprised at the number of ports there are (or rather have been, no idea how many are left and active).
Can anyone tell me if DE is compatible to any degree with other ports, in terms of running a typical PWad? (I do understand that some PWads may use advanced features and may not work while others might, I'm just looking for a wide-angle guess!)

and Q3: Can anyone say how many are still active today? (referring to Heretic not only the Doom engine alone)

Many thanks for any information in advance!]]> https://talk.dengine.net/discussion/2157/favorite-pwads Thu, 17 Dec 2015 01:45:59 +0000 Heretic DavidInvenio 2157@/discussions I was just curious what PWads people play and which are favorites!
I've been thinking of building a database of PWads that work with DE, along with specifications - single player or multi - coop or deathmatch - all the information I can gather.

Is anyone interested in contributing information?]]> https://talk.dengine.net/discussion/2140/de-2-0-amp-pwads-ie-heretic-treasure-chest-wad Wed, 09 Dec 2015 00:31:04 +0000 Heretic DavidInvenio 2140@/discussions Are you able to load the wad with the command line in the new DE UI?]]> https://talk.dengine.net/discussion/2092/permanent-tome-of-power-shazam-cheat Thu, 10 Sep 2015 00:28:57 +0000 Heretic arablover 2092@/discussions https://talk.dengine.net/discussion/2003/heretic-treasure-chest Wed, 29 Apr 2015 10:49:25 +0000 Heretic wyland 2003@/discussions http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/index. ... tchest.zip

Multiple times I tried to play that wad with Doomsday Engine Frontend but starting the frontend it shows up in the map list for DOOM instead of Heretic. Point is when I chose to play HERETIC with the Doomsday Engine Frontend and the filter is set "only compatible", it shows ONLY Heretic pwads to chose from, but not "htchest.wad" although it's used to be a Heretic pwad!

If I change the Doomsday Engine Frontend to play DOOM strangewise "htchest.wad" is listed among "only compatible" pwads which makes no sense to me!

So it seems not to be compatible with Doomsday! Does Doomsday not support limit removing or what is wrong with Heretic Treasure Chest?]]> https://talk.dengine.net/discussion/1994/can-someone-please-confirm-two-bugs-in-heretic Fri, 03 Apr 2015 19:47:49 +0000 Heretic BSim500 1994@/discussions
1. Incorrect Skill Level ammo count. On Skill Levels 1 & 5, Heretic is giving double normal ammo (like Doom), when it should in fact be only +50%:-
http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Skill_level

Start a game on Skill Level 4 "Thou Art A Smite Meister", say E1M1 and pick up an elven wand ammo next to you. It gives the correct +10. Now start a game on Skill Level 5 "Black Plague Possesses Thee" - it gives a false +20 instead of +15. I tested it on an old copy of JDoom v1.8.6, and it gives the correct +15, so somewhere in the newer versions, it looks like the +100% / 2x Doom skill variable ammo modified is being incorrectly used for Heretic instead of the +50% / 1.5x Heretic one.

2. Fast Monsters switch doesn't work for Heretic (but does for Doom). As title said, typing in "-fast" in Settings -> Developer -> Custom Options on both the game itself and "Shared settings" does not force monsters to fast in Heretic on skill level 4 "Thou Art A Smite Meister", but does in Doom "Ultra Violence". Is this a bug? Is there any way of forcing fast monsters without skill level 5 in the console?

Thanks.]]> https://talk.dengine.net/discussion/1969/about-rnd-in-heretic Sun, 15 Feb 2015 23:47:55 +0000 Heretic humpty32dumpty 1969@/discussions I'm from Russia, then previously sorry for my english .
I need answer on my questions about some part of random in Heretic. I know how to work random in this game , more or less , and i want to know - how i can find and check just in game array of number for random in heretic and where i can find list all random event . I want check correctness rnd in heretic , and try to control rnd in heretic.

Thx for help!]]> https://talk.dengine.net/discussion/397/would-someone-please-tell-me-the-difference Sat, 14 Aug 2010 09:20:53 +0000 Heretic ThunderBoyDavid 397@/discussions But i am confused on what the difference is between Heretic and Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders.
The CD i bought way back when.. when the game was released is Shadow of the Serpent Riders.
i looked on Raven.com.. the one they have online is Shadow of the Serpent Riders.
So what, where, how... is Heretic??

NO!!!.. i am NOT asking for the WAD file.
Actually.. i own a copy of all the games supported by the DoomsDay Engine.
Except for Heretic.. i own Shadow of the Serpent Riders.
i just don't understand where just Plain Heretic comes from.

Thanks in advance..,
ThunderBoyDavid

Sorry if the Question is stupid...]]> https://talk.dengine.net/discussion/1290/heretic-coop-issue Sat, 15 Dec 2012 19:37:24 +0000 Heretic quattj 1290@/discussions https://talk.dengine.net/discussion/1852/heretic-elven-wand Tue, 22 Jul 2014 00:22:20 +0000 Heretic makis 1852@/discussions