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Interesting exercise, but for those looking for something closer finished product: look no further than openal-soft. Its HRTF support is what makes sound effect

Interesting exercise, but for those looking for something closer finished product: look no further than openal-soft. Its HRTF support is what makes sound effects in Minecraft (Java Edition, on Windows and Linux -- headphone detection was very recently added for macOS) truly sound where they're coming from. Plus there's no intermediate mixing through any surround system, so you can even tell up from down. (HRTF in alsoft is not quite complete: it lacks support for near-field effects.) Oh, (2014). That was a different time -- alsoft had just added HRTF and the technique was less known by then.

willis936 3y ago
Do you know what minecraft java version this was introduced?
- arthur2e5 3y ago
  Unfortunately no, but you should be able to find the bundled openal-soft version by unpacking lwjgl-native*.jar.
  - willis936 3y ago
    Good tip, thanks. Prism Launcher's MC 1.12.2 lwjgl-platform-2.9.4-nightly-20150209 has OpenAL DLLs with metadata dates of 2013/04/07. Do you think simply repacking the DLLs in this jar and adding an `alsoft.ini` with `hrtf = true` would work? I'll try soon. Edit: Looks like MC uses a paulscode OpenAL implementation dated 2010/08/24. Doesn't look trivial to replace.
arthur2e5 3y ago
(Lack of near field is related to the lack of physical distance units in OpenAL, according to the author in the two issues related to this feature. Games have always used whatever they wanted to use; if OpenAL-soft, a plug-and-play replacement library, added near-field, you might get Zombie ASMR breathing down your neck in L4D2 or something similarly unexpected. The same reason was given for not doing headtracking.)