Rendering Optimization, Improvement, and Other Fixes.

[bryanedds]

SSR now gives us an additional light bounce!

It looks much nicer now!

Additional Significant Changes -

• Added PlanarProperty to billboard facets
• Exposed OrientUp flag and implemented behavior for planar interactions
• Made coroutine operators manually opened.
• More comments in Jump Box.
• Added missing handling for stale light probes being admitted.
• Exposed some Jolt wheel API.
• Fixed bug with user definition of vehicle properties being ignored.
• Added begin / end batching for forward render shaders.
• Deriving g-buffer position from depth.
• Fixed global fog regression.
• Normalized depth pipeline to composition buffer.
• Using viewProjection uniforms to potentially speed up vertex shaders.
• Renamed Swap to RequestSwap for semantic clarity.
• Optimized categorization operations.
• Fixed normal transform for forward static surfaces.
• Fixed shadow regression from recent RenderPass optimization.
• Made MountOpt [Some ^] by default to improve mount editing workflow.
• Implemented surface bundles.
• Got rid of automatic world stringization.
• Fixed Gaia exception when selected entity changes type midstream.
• Ripped out Permasplit feature since it now only pessimizes.
• Gaia Interactive exception fix.
• Removed unecessary param from runWithoutCleanUp.
• Split up lighting shader for purposed of optimization and SSR improvement.
• Checking all internal formats to attempt to surface driver issues on AMD.
• Refactored ssr lighting variables.
• Utilizing discard for screen quad rendering.
• Temporary fix for saturate.
• Fixed 25cbf6f
• Fixed e119c04

What's Changed

• Billboard-Feature by @lag7787 in Billboard-Feature #1026

New Contributors

• @lag7787 made their first contribution in Billboard-Feature #1026

Full Changelog: v19.1.0...v19.2.0

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