Unity engineering
Runtime systems, editor tooling, and architecture that remains legible after the prototype glow wears off.
01 / Foundations
Long-lived software, built deliberately.
A Wabi-Sabi approach to engineering.
Production-grade tools, developer systems, and purposeful applications, built with an unhealthy respect for maintenance. Designed by Vav Labs in Turin, Italy.
TURIN, ITALY / COMPUTATIONAL TOPOLOGY RESEARCH / 2026-05-14
Production diagnostics
Profiling-first workflows for bottlenecks, regressions, and other facts that dislike opinions.
Technical publishing
Documentation and case studies that explain what a tool does before anyone is asked to admire it.
02 / Tools
Commercial Unity tool
Asset Store-readyBugLens / SceneLens
Commercial Unity Editor tool for bug reports that arrive with evidence instead of folklore.
- Private source by design
- Markdown, JSON, and AI-ready exports
- Captures the boring context people forget to write down
Product / Coming next
In planning · Early access openPathForge Pro for Godot
Production-grade navigation and tactical pathfinding for Godot 4.x. The infrastructure layer Godot would have if it had been designed for games where movement is gameplay, not a decorative system.
- Grid pathfinding, multi-size agents, clearance maps
- Flow fields, formations, influence and Dijkstra maps
- Editor-first workflow with "why no path?" diagnostics
- Optional Rust GDExtension performance core
V1 scope is being defined now. The early access list is for indie developers and small studios who want pricing notice before public launch.
View PathForge pagePublic engineering work
01 / tool
ShippedGodot Project Doctor Mini
Godot 4 editor plugin that looks for project hygiene problems before they become a small weather system.
- Release v0.2.4
- MIT licensed with CI
- Markdown and JSON diagnostic reports
02 / tool
LiveSDF Raymarcher URP
A Unity URP rendering experiment where the interesting part is what the frame budget refuses to forgive.
- Unity URP rendering architecture
- Performance-focused technical demo
- MIT licensed source
03 / tool
ShippedRavencap
Streaming encrypted archives for files, folders, and pipelines. Less ceremony, fewer exciting surprises.
- Rust CLI with v2.0.2 release
- age-compatible encryption workflow
- Archive, compression, and verification path
Published products
Shipping evidence is more useful than a decorative logo row.
Vav Labs has public mobile releases as well as tools and experiments. Not everything needs a parade, but it should be possible to verify that the software exists.
03 / Case studies
Case studies should read like decisions under constraints, not portfolio theatre.
These are compact for now: the problem, the constraint, the tradeoff, and the evidence. The confetti department was not consulted.
01 / study
Rendering architectureSDF Raymarcher URP
Signed-distance-field rendering inside Unity URP, kept close enough to the metal that the profiler can still argue back.
Unity URP HLSL C#
Shader architecture, source, and integration notes available.
Read case study02 / study
Frame budget recoveryMeta Quest VR Performance
Mobile VR performance work, where every millisecond has witnesses and none of them are sentimental.
Unity Quest URP Profiler
Optimization checklist and capture notes are being prepared from real device work.
03 / study
Editor tooling productBugLens / SceneLens
Turn the ancient ritual of 'it broke on my machine' into a report with enough context to be useful.
Unity Editor C# Tool UX
Demo flow and package documentation are being prepared for Asset Store release.
04 / research
Hyperplex.TDA
Real-time topological analysis engine for dynamic point clouds. Persistent homology and connectivity metrics under a 16ms frame budget, where most TDA algorithms politely decline to participate.
.NET 9 Unity Compute shaders Topology
- Computational topology applied to live data
- Hard real-time constraints, zero-allocation hot path
- C# .NET 9 core + Unity compute shader visualization
- Research engine, not a product yet
Research notes in preparation.
04 / Blog
Field notes from tools that have to survive production, which is rude but educational.
Short technical essays on Unity architecture, rendering constraints, commercial tooling, and the quiet decisions that prevent future archaeological digs.
01 / article
Unity architectureHow I structure Unity projects that outgrow MonoBehaviour scripts
A boundary-first approach for Unity projects after the inspector stops being a filing system.
2026-05-12 / 8 min read
Read02 / article
RenderingURP performance mistakes I look for first
The first rendering checks before we blame the engine, the GPU, or the phase of the moon.
2026-05-13 / 9 min read
Read03 / article
Product engineeringHow to build a Unity Asset Store tool without exposing source
Private source is fine. Private evidence is where things get awkward.
2026-05-14 / 8 min read
Read05 / Contact
Vav Labs builds tools for the part of software that has to keep existing.
Production-grade tools, developer systems, and long-lived software, built with a Wabi-Sabi approach to engineering and a healthy suspicion of perfect diagrams.
Current work includes diagnostics tooling, rendering experiments, runtime architecture, and computational research. Small pieces, made to survive being used.
Contact and links
Other shipped work
Amilo
A therapeutic AAC application for children with communication needs. Built over years rather than weeks, and included here as shipped work without pulling its separate audience into an engineering page.