Scenes Autumn Reverie

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Overview

Here is my entry for the Heartfelt Halloween 2026 contest. The call was for a cozy, pumpkin-spice vibe, and I feel like I succeeded!

I pulled a bunch of assets together to give the deep-woods, cozy autumn atmosphere. The area is primarily based on Syrinxo's Pine Woods in Summer scene that I've been obsessed with recently when it comes to forests—with my own custom lighting and sounds. Things are a bit busy on my end, so I'm releasing this as one of my dioramas.

There is plenty more I'd love to add like custom animations, but the time constraint means that this will have to come out in its current state. Maybe if the contest goes well and there's interest, I can revisit it when there's more time later.

Thank you for supporting me, and I hope you like it.

Images

Note
All images below are captured as-is within VAM. No DLSS5, no ReShade, and no editing done in post. What you see here is what you get.

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Included

Attribution Note
All credits for resources used in this showcase are included below, as they are dependencies in the VAR. If your resource was used and was not properly credited either in the following sections or the credits below, please let me know so I can correct the issue.

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Note
If you are only interested in the model, you can download Lydia as a separate resource, and bypass some additional dependencies.

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Since this is a fairly heavy scene, I took extra time and made as many things beautiful, customizable, and toggle-able as I can. Additionally, I got a request on my last scene to include a master volume slider, so I implemented a plugin that will bring the entire mix down to whatever level is more comfortable for you.

Simply hit F2 to return to this menu, or approach the tree if you're in VR:





Highlights







- Fully custom lighting setup—environment lighting, and two light rigs included, one for daytime, one for nighttime.
- Custom soundscape using royalty-free sound effects to further enhance the atmosphere. Day and night forest ambiance, wind blowing through the trees, and music that fits the theme.
- Volumetric lighting powered by LumenForge by Shadow Venom for stunning godrays.
- Volumetric fog, added via SteamForge, also by Shadow Venom.
- The ever-necessary WindControl+ by WgSoup that brings more believability to the scene. I used the older version here for ease-of-use so that you can swap in your own girls and not have to retarget the wind.
- Hand-crafted environment, including a few custom-ported assets. Great for photos in all 360-degrees, by design.
- Toggle-able Halloween props, in case you just want the autumn vibe without the spook.
- Several different animated camera angles including pans and FOV zooms for cinematic effect. There are 11 camera angles in total here with hand-focused depth of field to give it that filmic feel.
- All poses used in the scene are in the VAR as load-able elsewhere. Make sure to re-save the poses without the root node if you plan to use them.


Additional Notes

- In Cinematic Camera mode, hit either ESC or U to return back to the scene. The modified FOV during the camride would cut off subtitle tooltips for this, so I didn't include a popup this go-round.

I pulled out all the stops, so this scene is pretty performance-heavy. There are lots of pixel lights, lots of CUAs, fog, godrays, etcetera. Here are a few things that you can do to save some performance if you have weaker hardware, ordered by most savings to least savings:

- Disable Ultra Shadows.
- Check Show Hidden in Edit Mode, and disable or remove the VAMTweaks plugin on the AutoFocusPoint atom. This is used to increase shadow distance for higher fidelity.
- Decrease the curves/multiplier quality on Lydia's hair.
- Check Show Hidden in Edit Mode, and search for atoms starting with "Light," and begin turning lights off to save some additional performance.
- Disable Wind Effects in the menu. This saves frames from being eaten up by the plugin scanning your girl.
- Disable Depth of Field.

Beyond these heavy-hitters, it's turning off surrounding trees and CUAs in the environment, starting from furthest to closest, or making sure that your model is more optimized, though this might compromise the look of the scene.


Credits

I used Shadow Venom's CUA Asset Studio to port a few CC BY models from Sketchfab. Credits directly to them are here:

Victorian Street Lamp - By Discover
Bench - By Spark

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