Cache the current position in the animation track and attempt to reuse it in the next frame.
Decent speed up for the Update phase, about 0.3 ms faster in Balmora.
Unlike what I expected, the osgUtil::UpdateVisitor is set to traverse all children (not only active children). The FrameSwitch was thus traversing both RigGeometries part of the double-buffering scheme, rather than only the one active in the current frame.
Seems wrong to me, but MW appears to do it that way. Without this fix, the light_de_candle_08_64 from http://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/41654/ has flame particles in the wrong spot.
OSG 3.4 adds the ability to place Drawables directly in the scene graph, without a Geode decorating them. Leveraging this should give a small performance boost, because the redundant Geodes increase culling overhead.
There is still an oustanding issue with the RemoveDrawableVisitor no longer working correctly, because Drawables can have multiple parents.
Works around a compiler warning with OSG 3.4:
warning: base class 'class osg::Callback' should be explicitly initialized in the copy constructor [-Wextra]
With no default argument for osg::CopyOp&, the compiler no longer sees the function as a real copy constructor and stops warning about the missing virtual initializations.
We don't care about this warning because there is nothing interesting to initialize in the osg::NodeCallback base anyway.
A proper fix for the warning would require to inserting OSG_VERSION conditional compiling all over the place, that is as long as we are still supporting OSG 3.2.
Nvidia drivers only support a maximum of 4 fixed function texture units. To resolve this problem, bind texture units in order instead of binding to the NiTexturingProperty::TextureType unit.
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Alexander "Ace" Olofsson
Arthur Moore