The cell loading threshold (default: 1024 units) prevents exterior cell loading until the player has travelled part-way into the next cell. This gets rid of excessive cell loadings when walking along an exterior cell border.
Lower the maximum allowed view distance in options menu to accomodate. Change setting name so that old settings files are upgraded.
- Remove broken cache locking mechanism
This was supposed to unload NIFFiles after a cell transition completes, but it was never working due to a mistake on the line if (--sLockLevel), should have been if (--sLockLevel == 0). Repairing this would increase load times (NIF files would have to be reloaded more frequently), so just removed it for now.
- Decouple cache from NIFFile (now a new nifcache component)
- Add API for future background loading
- Provide a reliable way (SharedPtr) to hold on to loaded NIFFiles. This will be useful to avoid deep copies of keyframe and text key data, which is currently a performance bottleneck.
The InsertFunctor for cells was calling localRotateObject() for all references which set the mChanged flag in RefData to true.
Also clean up RefData interface slightly.
It was just adding a level of indirection to Ptr.getClass().
All the call were replaced by that instead. The number of lines changed
is important, but the change itself is trivial, so everything should be
fine. :)
- Consistent triangle alignment, fixes a noticable crack near the census and excise office. Note that alignment is still not the same as vanilla. Vanilla uses a weird diagonal pattern. I hope there aren't more trouble spots that will force us to replicate vanilla, but at least we can do that now.
- Fixes several blending issues and cell border seams
- Fix map render to use the terrain bounding box instead of an arbitrary height
- Different LODs are now properly connected instead of using skirts
- Support self shadowing
- Normals and colors are stored in the vertices instead of a texture, this enables per-vertex lighting which should improve performance, fix compatibility issues due to the PS getting too large and mimic vanilla better
- Support a fixed function fallback (though the splatting shader usually performs better)
- Designed for distant land support - test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wnd9EuPJIY - we can't really enable this yet due to depth precision issues when using a large view distance
