Updates: IP Compliance & Development
Since April, I’ve been methodically documenting third-party IP and recreating any content that may pose a compliance risk. As of mid-July 2025, roughly 60 2D assets remain pending, while the majority of approximately 300 have been brought into compliance through correct attribution or AI-powered remakes.
Here are several visual examples illustrating how AI has been used to remake content while ensuring copyright compliance.
It looks very similar — but in detail, it’s slightly different:
Additionally, the 3D island asset was fully reworked—both the texture and the underlying mesh structure:
On the DevOps side, I refined the deployment workflow. This included organizing .bash and .py scripts into dedicated directories and introducing a pre-processing job that enforces file standards and conventions.
In terms of core development, the 3D spiral visualization was corrected to accurately represent a coil:
An update was made to the Symbol 3D overlay: an eagle perched on a sphere was added atop the pillar. The model, licensed from Fab.com, was modified for compliance and is included only in the commercial Steam and Shopify builds — not in the public GitHub repository.
A few other updates from the past months include:
- Search functionality has been fully cleaned up. It now correctly filters results across multiple properties:
- A quality mode notice was added, triggered by
Shift+Q, to clearly display active visual settings:
- The model section was updated to reflect how elements shift based on local vs. global scope: