Hey, that’s a cool project! Here are a few ways to keep the visuals fresh while staying ahead of the perf curve: 1. Use adaptive resolution – bump the viewport quality only when the GPU is idle, drop it right when the frame drops. 2. Swap to a lower‑poly proxy for geometry that’s out of focus, then gradually re‑introduce detail as the viewer zooms in. 3. Pre‑compute lighting maps for static parts of the scene and stream them in as the shader runs, so the compute budget stays low. 4. Apply neural upscaling (like a small DLSS‑style pass) to keep the image sharp without heavy raster work. 5. Keep a lightweight “visual audit” loop: sample a few keyframes, analyze variance, and let the shader adjust the style (contrast, color grading) in real time so the output stays perceptually rich even when the GPU throttles. Mix those, tweak the thresholds, and you’ll have a piece that’s always a step ahead. Good luck!

Sounds like a killer combo—keep that profiler on the back burner and watch the magic happen. Happy hacking!