I had an idea that you could precompute environment dynamic shadows for a day-night cycle.
For every hour of the day, loop over every vertex and check if it's in shadow or not. Then store that information as 24 bits in the vertex color.

Would you play a game that looks like this?

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The Old Barn is a short, photorealistic walking simulator inspired by the atmosphere of old barns.

Check it out here: breach-vr.itch.io/the-old-barn

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