01 / Foundations

Long-lived software,built deliberately.

A Wabi-Sabi approach to engineering.

Godot · Unity · Rust · C#/.NET

Production-grade tools and developer systems for Unity and Godot teams, built with an unhealthy respect for maintenance. Designed by Vav Labs in Turin, Italy.

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TURIN, ITALY / COMPUTATIONAL TOPOLOGY RESEARCH / 2026-06-29

For game devs

Godot and Unity tools for pathfinding, diagnostics, rendering, and the parts of gameplay code that become architecture when nobody is looking.

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For studios

Downloadable Unity and Godot tools for teams that need clearer diagnostics, pathfinding workflows, and less mystery inside shipped projects.

See case studies

For research-curious

Computational topology, real-time constraints, rendering experiments, and notes from systems that refuse to stay purely theoretical.

Read Hyperplex.TDA

02 / Tools

Products and technical work, ordered by what matters now.

PathForge for Godot is the main product focus now: production navigation, diagnostics, and near-release development for Godot teams. BugLens remains the available Unity tool, with shipped tooling, research, and longer technical narratives below.

Primary product / Early access

Heavy development · Early access open

PathForge for Godot

A production navigation intelligence layer for Godot 4.x: grid pathfinding, tactical movement, spatial AI maps, and editor diagnostics for games where movement is gameplay.

View PathForge page Open Playground

What it gives you

TileMap-driven grids, terrain costs, dynamic blockers
Multi-size agents, clearance maps, movement ranges
Influence maps, Dijkstra maps, flow fields, formations
Editor-first workflow with "why no path?" diagnostics
Optional Rust GDExtension performance core

Early access

Secondary product / Available now

Direct launch

BugLens

Commercial Unity Editor extension for bug reports that arrive with evidence instead of folklore. €29 launch price, one-time, no subscription.

€29 launch · €49 regular · one-time, no subscription
Markdown, JSON, and AI-ready exports
Captures the boring context people forget to write down

View BugLens Buy — €29 launch

Companion / Free & open-source

Shipped

Godot Project Doctor Mini

Godot 4 editor plugin that looks for project hygiene problems before they become a small weather system.

View Project Doctor

Tertiary / Shipped tools

Ravencap

Shipped

Streaming encrypted archives for files, folders, and pipelines. Less ceremony, fewer exciting surprises.

View on GitHub

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.

Open Google Play

03 / Case studies

Case studies: constraints, decisions, and evidence.

These pages hold the technical narratives that need more context than a product card: the problem, the constraint, the tradeoff, and the evidence.

01 / study

Rendering architecture

SDF Raymarcher URP

Signed-distance-field rendering inside Unity URP, kept close enough to the metal that the profiler can still argue back.

UnityURPHLSLC#

Single ScriptableRenderFeature, not a small festival of passes
Lower-resolution raymarched pass that composes with depth-correct geometry
Fixed iteration cap with early exit; tetrahedral normals over central differences
MIT-licensed source, intentionally small enough to audit in one sitting

Shader architecture, render-feature integration, and MIT-licensed source available; measured captures in progress.

Read case study

02 / study

In progress

Meta Quest VR Performance

Mobile VR performance work on Quest, where every millisecond has witnesses and the thermal envelope is one of them.

UnityQuestURPProfiler

11.1 ms / 13.8 ms frame budgets split across CPU, GPU, and the runtime compositor
Device captures first: OVR Metrics Tool, Unity Profiler over USB, RenderDoc when needed
Recovers structural cost: shadow distance, cascades, transparent overdraw, draw call ceiling
Tunes FFR, MSAA tier, render scale, and depth ownership against URP + Quest compositor reality
Thermal-aware: a frame that passes certification cold can still fail after five minutes

Optimization checklist and capture notes are being written from real device sessions, not editor estimates.

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03 / research

Advanced private research

Hyperplex.TDA

Real-time topological analysis engine for dynamic point clouds. The public page documents the architecture and validation discipline; implementation artifacts remain private while the product direction is undecided.

Unity 6.3.NET 10Burst/JobsTopology

Computational topology applied to live data
Hard real-time constraints, zero-allocation hot path
Unity 6.3 Burst/Jobs runtime + .NET 10 offline CLI
Source, datasets, benchmark captures, and release artifacts not public yet

Architecture and status notes public; measured evidence and artifacts remain private until a release path is chosen.

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Downloadable tools, developer products, and long-lived software, built with a Wabi-Sabi approach to engineering and a healthy suspicion of perfect diagrams.

Current work includes PathForge for Godot, BugLens for Unity, diagnostics tooling, and computational research. Small pieces, made to survive being used.

Contact and links

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