Gaia Sky 3.5.0-RC4

Features

• enable labels for regular particle sets.
• improve unsharp mask shader to produce much cleaner and useful results.
• remove non-instanced triangles mode (and renderers); they are a waste of memory and almost never faster than the instanced version.
• use screen-aligned billboards in regular mode, and scene-aligned ones in any of the cubemap modes (360, planetarium, etc.).

Bug Fixes

• spread GPU streaming of multi-component billboard datasets over several frames.

Performance Improvements

• distribute SVT render pass over 5 frames to split contribution over time and achieve more or less constant frame pacing.

Code Refactoring

• trigger star/particle set update task in updater systems instead of via the camera motion event. Shorten minimum times between metadata updates.
• move particle and star set updater methods to consumers initialized at creation.