Design and Rendering Strategies for Blockbuster VR Games - Batman: Arkham Shadow
summary
Camouflaj ships Batman Arkham Shadow on Meta Quest 3 using Unity 2022.3 with a custom render pipeline and Vulkan, targeting 72 FPS (~13.89 ms). Most lighting is baked: directional lightmaps gain specular by sampling a dominant direction and filtering false highlights with a luminance mask; dynamic objects use SH light probes plus artist-tuned custom probes. Real-time is rare but uses subtractive mix lights for characters, while scalable “fake shadows” use decal/projective volumes (later enhanced with depth reads). Reflections use cube‑map normalization and reflection proxies to match local lighting.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:41Manta Mantras
- 1:05Preserving authenticity
- 1:35Striking balance between “new,” “better,” and “same”
- 3:49Embracing an “easy to learn, difficult to master” philosophy
- 5:16Combat design
- 7:59Meeting player expectations
- 8:40Designing players’ avatars
- 9:07Designing environments
- 12:04Technical background
- 12:39Baked lighting for static objects
- 15:52Baked lighting for dynamic objects
- 17:21Realtime lighting
- 19:01Mixed lighting
- 21:16Realtime shadows
- 26:08Reflections
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