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.