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Procedural Generation

2026-04-05

Labelling Tectonic Plates — Building a Reusable World-Space Naming System in Unity

Assigning names to tectonic plates and building a reusable world-space labelling system — covering a static NameGenerator, a dedicated RegionMapping data class, and a pooled UI that renders labels anywhere on the planet's surface.

2026-03-31

Visualizing Plate Boundaries — Adding a Plate Tectonics Layer to The Planet Renderer

Adding a visual Tectonics layer to the planet renderer — covering data transformation from simulation dictionaries to normalized float maps, and why initialization order matters more than you'd think.

2025-04-18

Plate Tectonics Simulation on a Planet

A 3D spherical plate tectonics simulation that generates volcanoes, rift valleys, earthquakes and mountain ranges dynamically — built as the geological foundation for 4X strategy games.

Performance

2025-05-19

Let Hardware do the Heavy Lifting — GPU Instancing for Performance in Unity

A deep dive into GPU instancing in Unity's URP — going from DrawMeshNow to DrawMeshInstanced, batching thousands of objects, and achieving 4x the FPS with a fraction of the draw calls.

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