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Making it perform

Triangle census, collider choice, what actually costs you.

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Runtime terrain meshing — chunked greedy voxel/heightfield terrain
The method for large runtime-generated terrain in s&box: a persistent cell grid as the single source of truth, chunked greedy meshing (tops + skirts), collision decoupled from render grain, palette-atlas UVs, and dirty-chunk remesh for a live terrain brush.
✓ 26.07
"A frame-budget method for stylized s&box scenes"

Census tris × instances before decimating; prefer BoxCollider over ModelCollider for decorative props.

✓ 26.07
"Collider choice that actually costs you"

BoxCollider is cheap and follows WorldScale; Capsule/ModelCollider don't scale with WorldScale and ModelCollider is costly on clutter.

✓ 26.07
"Editor play mode is hard-capped at 60 fps — cvars won't lift it"

Editor-embedded play mode pins at exactly 60 fps regardless of cvars. The cap is the compositor's vsync on the editor window, not the engine frame sync.