indie-horror-aesthetics

Indie Horror Aesthetics

Reference-driven indie horror looks. Pick a lane; don’t mash all at once.

Load subtype refs

Silent Hill fog/rust; Fear to Fathom domestic analog; Puppet Combo PSX crunch; corporate/empty office; cabin/forest; hospital; urban decay.

Recipe

Pick one lane. This recipe is the Silent Hill / Puppet Combo lane: 320x240 PSX frame, vertex snap 0.02 m, grey-white fog, one flashlight-style spot. Fear to Fathom (domestic analog) swaps ps1_look for comp_grade horror_vhs at a normal resolution; corporate/office swaps in overcast plus yellowed pbr_material; cabin/forest uses moonlight.

1. ps1_look resolution [320, 240], snap 0.02, flat False, fog [0.55, 0.56, 0.58] (Silent Hill grey; use [0.05, 0.06, 0.08] for black-fog forest).
2. pbr_material MAT_Rust: base_color [0.3, 0.12, 0.06], metallic 0.5, roughness 0.8 for rusted, corroded surfaces.
3. light_rig horror_practical (warm spot, green point).
4. camera_rig lens_mm 28, elevation_deg 5, fill 0.5.
5. comp_grade horror_vhs with vignette 0.4 for the crunch.

import runpy
skills = "<skills_dir>"  # parent folder of this skill (the plugin's skills/ directory)
target = "SM_Asset"      # object to style / dress
r = {}
r["look"] = runpy.run_path(f"{skills}/lowpoly-style/scripts/ps1_look.py", init_globals={"ARGS": {"objects": [target], "snap": 0.02, "resolution": [320, 240], "fog": [0.55, 0.56, 0.58]}})["result"]
r["material"] = runpy.run_path(f"{skills}/materials/scripts/pbr_material.py", init_globals={"ARGS": {"name": "MAT_Rust", "base_color": [0.3, 0.12, 0.06], "metallic": 0.5, "roughness": 0.8, "objects": [target]}})["result"]
r["light"] = runpy.run_path(f"{skills}/lighting/scripts/light_rig.py", init_globals={"ARGS": {"preset": "horror_practical", "target": target}})["result"]
r["camera"] = runpy.run_path(f"{skills}/camera-cinematography/scripts/camera_rig.py", init_globals={"ARGS": {"name": "CAM_Indie_01", "target": target, "lens_mm": 28, "elevation_deg": 5, "fill": 0.5}})["result"]
r["grade"] = runpy.run_path(f"{skills}/compositing/scripts/comp_grade.py", init_globals={"ARGS": {"preset": "horror_vhs", "vignette": 0.4}})["result"]
result = r

Scale reference for first-person indie horror:

Element	Size
Door	0.9 x 2.1 m
Hallway width	1.2 to 1.6 m
Ceiling height	2.4 to 2.7 m
Eye height	1.6 m
Flashlight range	8 to 12 m