Specifications developed in PR #3206 require that groundcover content files must not be allowed to corrupt normal content files. With this PR we simply isolate our existing loading logic by instantiating a separate `ESMStore` for `Groundcover`. In addition, we remove some outdated workarounds.
This PR aims to solve all issues with `Groundcover` view distance handling in a satisfying way while preserving other optimisations that benefit other features. The main idea here is not to rely on `ViewData` updates for distance culling calculations because we can not accurately determine distance against lazily updated views. Instead, we perform an accurate measurement in a cull callback we can run every frame in `Groundcover` itself. While we do have to add some code to handle this feature, it is quite loosely coupled code that could be useful elsewhere in the future. These changes should address a performance regression @akortunov experienced.
This PR aims to solve `uniform block LightBufferBinding has no binding` messages @glassmancody has reportedly encountered since PR #3110 due to an apparent bug in OSG. While we do have to add a workaround here that adds a bit of clunkiness, #3216 should allow us to clean up these interactions a bit in the future.
This PR removes unneeded `lowerCaseInPlace` calls in in a hot path of `objectpaging.cpp` that are no longer necessary after PR #3197. In addition, I have been informed that these changes should by coincidence address a compiler specific compilation error we currently experience.
* resets state updater to apply light settings (#3141)
resets state updater to apply light settings
With this PR we achieve the same effect with fewer lines of code.
* fixes LightSource logic errors
We currently update `LightSource::setActorFade` in `TransparencyUpdater`. There are several logic errors inherent in this approach:
1. We fail to update `LightSource::setActorFade` for off screen actors because their `TransparencyUpdater` cull callback is not invoked.
2. We fail to update `LightSource::setActorFade` in the instant that a `TransparencyUpdater` is removed.
3. We fail to update `setActorFade` when an `mExtraLightSource` is created after calling `Animation::setAlpha`.
With this PR we avoid such issues by updating `LightSource::setActorFade` in `Animation::setAlpha` and `Animation::addExtraLightSource` instead.
With this PR we refactor `SceneUtil::KeyframeController` not to require `virtual osg::Callback` inheritance. I suppose such `virtual` overhead is not justified here because it negatively impacts many other classes we derive from `osg::Callback`.
