s&box closes Developer Preview, ships UI batching and AO optimizations
sbox.gameGame DevelopmentApr 15, 2026, 12:00 PM

Developer Preview is closed -- 40K of 800K devs keep access; full launch April 28 for $20. UI batching: Discover page drops from 1080+ draw calls to 5, up to 54% more FPS. SSAO now uses Hilbert Tree sampling + Float16. NavMesh on-demand tile generation for open-world games.
9Apr 15, 2026, 8:56 PM