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 In addition, we remove some outdated workarounds.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.
Currently, we use an `UnrefQueue` which supposedly aims to transfer destruction costs to another thread. The implications of this unusual pattern can not be well understood because some allocators might free resources more efficiently if they are freed by the same thread that allocated them. In addition, `UnrefQueue` complicates the validation of thread safety in our engine. Lastly, our current usage of `UnrefQueue` triggers `ref()`, `unref()` atomic operations as objects are passed into the queue. These operations could be more expensive than the actual destruction.
With this PR we thus remove `UnrefQueue`. We can expect these changes to have a minor impact at most because we free most resources elsewhere in `ResourceSystem::updateCache`.
Currently, we always traverse the scene graph an additional time with a ComputeLightSpaceBounds visitor during shadow casting. ComputeLightSpaceBounds is only useful when the shadow casting mask allows us to shrink the bounds of the rendered scene, so we guard its traversal with a check against getCastsShadowTraversalMask. In practice, this guard never works because we build the traversal mask inclusively.
With this PR we limit the getCastsShadowTraversalMask check to relevant masks. This new check allows us to skip a superfluous ComputeLightSpaceBounds traversal with most settings.
* avoids creating empty statesets on drawables
Currently, we attempt to skip creating state on drawable nodes when this state matches the default state. This attempt is incomplete because we still create an avoidable empty stateset in the default case.
* renderingmanager.cpp
* nifloader.cpp
* nifloader.cpp
* shadervisitor.cpp
* avoids creating empty statesets on drawables
Currently, we attempt to skip creating state on drawable nodes when this state matches the default state. This attempt is incomplete because we still create an avoidable empty stateset in the default case.
* renderingmanager.cpp
* nifloader.cpp
Fixes build errors with older OSG builds and some issues with 'shared' layout.
Bring back ambient in inventory through lightmodel instead of sun ambient, mirrors scene ambient/sunlight relationship.
Forces shaders when certain lighting methods are enabled and finalize settings.
Correctly override sun for localmap.