Gaia Sky 3.4.0

Features

• sparse virtual texture support. This unlocks new virtual texture (VT) datasets, where extremely large textures are split in tiles and loaded and streamed to the GPU on-demand.
• add filter box to dataset lists in the dataset manager.
• add 'clear' button to text fields to clear the contents at once.
• add initial support for the JPEG-XL (.jxl) image format.
• enable updating pre-loaded objects via JSON, add SVT (sparse virtual textures) component and loading mechanisms.

Build System

• upgrade build script to install4j 10.0.4.

Documentation

• flag Gaia Sky VR as alpha software.

Bug Fixes

• VR controller paths in VR context. Fixes #702.
• build task including certs and other unneeded stuff.
• error computing mean position in particle set when there are no particles.
• escape config file backup path in Windows.
• implement bilinear interpolation on SVT, make interpolation generic regardless of data structure used.
• skip only GB instead of GBA in RGB buffer readout in automatic tone mapping effect.

Refactoring

• move light glow code to own render pass class.
• move shadow map code to own render pass class.
• move source version to settings.