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Happy New Year, Engineers!

We are always trying to automate the more mundane tasks in our workflow and make our development pipeline faster and more reliable. Tools like this help us spend less time on repetitive manual work and more time on actual game design and content.

Here we can see a sneak peek of our new Blender tool, which allows us to quickly generate fracture pieces for our blocks. This tool will help us speed up our workflow while maintaining consistent fracture quality across all block types.

Creating fractures is not a simple boolean operation. It requires several steps in geometry generation, material assignment, and clean mesh separation. In the video, you can see that every time the mesh is split along an edge, we generate an additional edge with the same material as the top layer.

The inner split uses a special damaged material with parallax mapping and shelf shadows, giving fractures more depth and a more believable broken look. This kind of automation saves a lot of time, especially as the number of blocks grows, and it lets us keep the visual quality high even when producing a large number of fracture variants.

VS3 - Byblos WIP

Planet Byblos will not be only a water world - it will be a world of fire and ice. The planet will push the survival experience in two extreme directions. On one side freezing temperatures and the cold depths beneath the waves. On the other side, volcanic activity that breaks the endless water surface, carving underwater channels and creating sharp, scattered islands all across the planet.




These contrasts make Byblos feel unpredictable. The meeting point of boiling heat and freezing water creates a world that is far more than just an ocean planet. It is a place shaped by constant tension between elements, with terrain that tells the story of eruptions, flows, collapses, and glacial erosion. And this is only the rough beginning of what we want to build on Byblos.

Question to you: How do you like the planet Byblos so far?

Full Blog Post: https://blog.marekrosa.org/2026/01/my-review-of-2025-plans-for-2026/




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