* Distance field building is now asynchronous and stored in the DDC separately from static mesh data.
* Added OcclusionMaxDistance and Contrast properties to Movable sky light
* Using the GBuffer normal instead of the generated distance field normal, fixes artifacts on two-sided materials and between modular pieces. Also saves about .7ms / 4.5ms
* Points in the distance field are only considered 'inside' the mesh if > 50% of all rays traced hit a backface. Most meshes can have a valid distance field generated with this heuristic. Meshes without a distance field representation can receive occlusion.
* Fortnite two-sided foliage with world position offset animation works fine now
* Using the resulting bent normal for diffuse lighting, improves consistency in occluded corners
* Resulting bent normal is also used to occlude skylight specular using an approximate cone-cone intersection, prevents leaking where SSR is not available
* Fixed stationary skylights not getting lightmap mixing
* Reflection captures now work with the movable skylight, which adds its diffuse contribution to IndirectIrradiance so their lightmap mixing works
* Added new show flag to visualize mesh distance fields, which ray traces through the distance fields and gives a sense of their shape
[CL 2276435 by Daniel Wright in Main branch]
* Both paths still exist in code during this transition. The GetDynamicMeshElements path is currently disabled, enable with 'r.UseGetDynamicMeshElements 1'.
* DrawDynamicElements was called once per pass, all sorts of pass-specific cruft had leaked in along with short-term modifications of shared structures (vertex factories and material proxies). DrawDynamicElements was not const, so a bunch of 'update' type work had leaked in. Various PreRenderView implementations relied on the view being in the view family.
* GetDynamicMeshElements is called once in InitViews, and the resulting meshes are used in various passes. GetDynamicMeshElements is const and must not modify the proxy, update work should be pushed to the proxy from the game thread. GetDynamicMeshElements can be called on views that are not in the view family, which allows a proper view for shadow depth passes.
* View mode override functionality moved out of the individual proxies into a centralized place, ApplyViewModeOverrides
* GPU particles not working yet, FRecastRenderingSceneProxy not implemented
[CL 2253795 by Daniel Wright in Main branch]
granularity is all GBuffers, could be per texture but might not be worth the tracking
* disabled RenderTargetPoolEvents tracking for editor rendering to get a more readable output
[CL 2076060 by Martin Mittring in Main branch]