Art Direction

Art Direction

Blockiverse VR uses original, Quest-readable voxel art. The canonical rulesets remain the source of truth for block, item, biome, structure, menu, audio/VFX, and world vocabulary; this page records visual principles and provenance.

Direction

Use a readable, blocky, colorful voxel style with a distinct identity:

• Softer, toy-like block edges.
• Bright storybook explorer palette.
• Original block names, item icons, UI panels, textures, audio, creatures, structures, and branding.
• VR-readable contrast and silhouettes at normal headset distance.
• No protected third-party identity, names, textures, sounds, mobs, UI, screenshots, logos, fonts, or distinctive item names.

Texture Rules

• Block source tiles are 16x16 RGBA PNG files.
• The runtime atlas follows the renderer expectations for the current canonical registry.
• Use point filtering, clamp wrapping, and no mipmaps unless headset evidence proves another import profile is more readable.
• Keep silhouettes and color families distinct enough for Quest headset validation.
• Item icons and UI sprites should not embed text.
• Commit Unity .meta files with texture import settings.
• Missing or incorrectly wired block atlases should fail validation rather than falling back to unrelated temporary visuals.

Palette

Use a bright, varied palette:

• Terrain: meadow greens, warm soil browns, cool stone grays.
• Organic: amber timber and saturated leaf greens.
• Glass/crystal: cyan transparent and luminous tones.
• Resources: high-contrast dark coal, orange copper accents, pale iron accents, and later canonical resource colors.
• Crafted blocks: warm utility browns with distinct construction marks.
• Light sources: botanical or crafted silhouettes with warm yellow light.
• UI: dark translucent work surfaces with green, gold, red, and blue accents.

Website Art Assets

The public website uses two generated original JPEG assets:

• website/assets/blockiverse-hero.jpg - first-person VR voxel world, generated with a prompt for original VR voxel sandbox key art and exclusions for third-party logos, Minecraft textures/mobs, text, UI labels, and watermarks.
• website/assets/blockiverse-coop.jpg - local co-op building scene, generated with a prompt for original multiplayer voxel key art and the same protected-reference exclusions.

The source PNGs remain in the Codex generated image directory; the website copies are JPEGs to avoid requiring Git LFS for this static site update.

Historical Provenance

Earlier committed art/audio passes were produced through deterministic scripts under scripts/art/ and scripts/audio/, with provenance recorded in the source repository before this wiki migration. Keep future source-controlled generation notes here and keep exact source paths in the pull request or issue validation notes.