Thank you for the super detailed comment! It really means a lot you liked the music (I was a massive fan of your games music as well lol). I did some testing and you're right about the lag. Your points about shader initialization didn't even occur to me because I figured Godot 4.4 had included new ubershaders to mitigate that stutter entirely, but thank you for bringing it up because it would have never come to my attention otherwise. Those stutters have haunted me for as long as I have been making games I thought I finally was rid of them. I'll definitely release a quality of life update down the line + a clearer objective!