Some more optimizations for PhotonDust and compatibility fixes. This should make PhotonDust run a fair bit smoother and improve compatibility. This also clears all the Compatibility issues on the board (except two that I'm waiting for confirmation if they're fixed or not), which means PhotonDust is very close to being taken out of experimental! Won't happen until next week at least (or maybe one after, because I'll be at FC for most of it), but I wanted to push this ASAP to allow more testing.
This build is compatible with previous, no need to update right away! (unless you're testing PhotonDust x3)
New Features:
- Added `-ForceSignalRLongPolling` argument to force SignalR to always use long polling instead of WebSockets
-- It's NOT recommended to use this unless you have connectivity issues, as this is a lot less efficient
Optimizations:
- Added copy stage for PhotonDust rendering data submission to better pipeline updates and improve overall update rate, especially with large number of particles (based on performance reports by @Stella, @Rucio, @Garfflesnark, @Foxbox and @Stiefel, issue #3401)
-- This trades off increased memory usage for smoother particle system simulation
Fixes:
- Fix aligners not respecting injected auto-ignore tags (based on report by @ultrawidegamer, issue #3376)
- Fix legacy ConeEmitter directions not being converted properly (reported by @ultrawidegamer, issue #3377)
- Fix converted particle systems with mesh particles using length/velocity stretch scaling when they shouldn't (reported by @ultrawidegamer, issue #3380)