PJKT Fest Booth

PJKT Fest is an annual virtual festival hosted in VRChat by Projekt: Community, celebrating the creativity and culture of social VR. I designed the booth for a community called "Love Letters to Sci-Fi," with a brief to make the interior feel like the Star Trek holodeck.

The concept extended the brief into a full architectural piece. The interior follows the holodeck grid aesthetic, while the exterior takes its cues from the corridors of the Enterprise-D. A galaxy-inspired rounded dome sits on top, adding height and giving the building a more distinctive presence on the festival floor. Inside, the booth features a pile of tribbles and a blue planet with a miniature Enterprise orbiting it. The logo on the side of the booth is original lettering, designed in Procreate for the community's visual identity.

The most significant challenge was the technical spec. The booth was limited to 4 meshes, 4 material slots, and 50,000 triangles. Each element has its own material: the booth structure, the tribbles, and the Enterprise. The booth structure material was the most complex to work out. The textures are Quest-compatible, meaning each PBR layer is limited to a 1024x1024 PNG: albedo, metallic/smoothness, normal maps, and emission were all created manually. Fitting the entire booth structure's UVs into that resolution budget meant careful unwrapping and deliberate decisions about which surfaces could afford lower resolution without visibly losing quality.

Designing for VRChat performance specs is a different discipline from designing for a render. The constraints are hard limits, and the creative work has to happen within them.