Difficult to gauge distance of walls in interiors due to flat textures/shading model

[lofty heath]

When running around inside, and even some exterior areas, the flatness of many materials makes it a bit disorienting gauging how far away you are from a wall, or even if the corridor you are running down turns or not.

I know BBR has a very low-def aesthetic, but might be worth considering if some ambient occlusion, lighting adjustments, and some light texturing could help increase environment readability. Minecraft's is similarly low-def, but utilizes a few tricks to give the player stronger visual feedback on how the environment is shaped.

An example below I grabbed from a stream on YT. If the wasn't in view, how would you gauge how far the pillars are from the player, and where they begin/end?

Love the game btw! Can't wait for release!

[brittle radish]

I agree, they should either put outlines and some shading to the textures

[tawdry snow]

sometimes it is hard to navigate in interiors, tunnels. i would add a bit of darker texture to walls

[marsh hound]

shadow disabled

[red crow]

one solution to this would be adding ambient occlusion. someone has suggested it in this post: #1033449878757576755 message

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1033449878757576755/1066314354598883328/BattleBit_2023-01-21_21-09-39.png

[novel forge]

This has been a suggestion for quite a while now. Ambient occlusion, lines on edges...etc.

Tunnels are always fun because of this.

[craggy robin]

This is one of my biggest problems with the game. There is no depth perception. Sometimes you can't tell the wall on one side of a room from another.

Minecraft solves this issue by actually having textures that aren't just a flat, uniform color. Good shadow work and ambient occlusion would mitigate the problem, but I think ultimately, the textures themselves need to have SOME detail to prevent this problem.

[fervent root]

at some angles in some maps you cant even find doorways until its too late

[brittle folio]

Climbing up the windmills or going around in the hall ways inside bunkers is really disorienting. The textures/shading on the grey/white walls definitely could use some level of detail simulating dirt/dust/w.e would probably be step in the right direction. I definitely agree with OP and was having the same though while playing yesterday

[tawdry wren]

another example from reddit. Can add slight brick or other textures to these walls, or add a texture/line on ledges/edges to differentiate and make it easier to see

Many objects already have textures that aren't just plain, so I believe it would not detract from the game

example from old game quake 2, even with basic flat textures you can show depth with ledges and a tiny bit of detail. Not much is needed, as we don't want to change battlebits aesthetic design, but just a little bit to give depth perception

In that picture, for example, the ground's texture is enough, even though it's barely visible.

Ideally, bricks and lines for horizontal/vertical edges(such as floors/doorways) would be all that's needed

[candid tangle]

Same here. Because of the floor being all one color, I cannot tell how far away I am from each point of the floor. It also looks glitched. I think instead of ambient occlusion (which is nice but increases the need of GPU usage), they can add some textures to raw-colored surfaces