Daylight dread. Pastoral beauty wrong. Ritual objects. Closed communities.
Tenets
- Beautiful nature + wrong customs
- Handmade ritual props
- Village scale, fields, woods
- Warm daylight can be scarier than night
- Symbols repeating
Recipe
Target: pastoral daylight dread: warm low sun (golden hour, about 12 degrees), straw/wood handmade props, camera at field height (35 mm, about 1.4 m), a ring of 7 ritual props around the focal object.
pbr_materialMAT_Straw:base_color[0.62, 0.45, 0.2],roughness0.9,metallic0.0 for hay, rope and unpainted wood.light_riggolden_hour; the world stays warm so the scene looks lovely and wrong. Useovercastfor a damp-moor variant.scatter_propscount7,kindsbox_small,clusters1,min_dist2.0,max_dist3.0: a tight ritual ring (symbols repeat, so keep one prop kind).camera_riglens_mm35,elevation_deg4,fill0.4.comp_gradecinematicwithwarmth0.15 andvignette0.3; keep saturation high, the horror is in the daylight.
import runpy
skills = "<skills_dir>" # parent folder of this skill (the plugin's skills/ directory)
target = "SM_Asset" # object to style / dress
r = {}
r["material"] = runpy.run_path(f"{skills}/materials/scripts/pbr_material.py", init_globals={"ARGS": {"name": "MAT_Straw", "base_color": [0.62, 0.45, 0.2], "roughness": 0.9, "metallic": 0.0, "objects": [target]}})["result"]
r["light"] = runpy.run_path(f"{skills}/lighting/scripts/light_rig.py", init_globals={"ARGS": {"preset": "golden_hour", "target": target}})["result"]
r["ring"] = runpy.run_path(f"{skills}/set-dressing/scripts/scatter_props.py", init_globals={"ARGS": {"target": target, "count": 7, "kinds": ["box_small"], "clusters": 1, "min_dist": 2.0, "max_dist": 3.0}})["result"]
r["camera"] = runpy.run_path(f"{skills}/camera-cinematography/scripts/camera_rig.py", init_globals={"ARGS": {"name": "CAM_Folk_01", "target": target, "lens_mm": 35, "elevation_deg": 4, "fill": 0.4}})["result"]
r["grade"] = runpy.run_path(f"{skills}/compositing/scripts/comp_grade.py", init_globals={"ARGS": {"preset": "cinematic", "warmth": 0.15, "vignette": 0.3}})["result"]
result = r