* NOTIFICATION_MOVED_IN_PARENT makes node children management very inefficient.
* Replaced by a NOTIFICATION_CHILD_ORDER_CHANGED (and children_changed signal).
* Most of the previous tasks carried out by NOTIFICATION_MOVED_IN_PARENT are now done not more than a single time per frame.
This PR breaks compatibility (although this notification was very rarely used, even within the engine), but provides an alternate way to do the same.
Existing shadow caster culling using the BVH takes no account of the camera. This PR adds the highly encapsulated class VisualServerLightCuller which can cut down the casters in the shadow volume to only those which can cast shadows on the camera frustum.
This is used to:
* More accurately defer dirty updates to shadows when the shadow volume does not intersect the camera frustum.
* Tighter cull shadow casters to the view frustum.
Lights dirty state is now automatically managed:
* Continuous (tighter caster culling)
* Static (all casters are rendered)
Allows a non-interpolated particle system to closely follow an interpolated target without tracking ahead of the target, by performing fixed timestep interpolation on the particle system global transform, and using this for emission.
Adds optional hierarchical culling to the 2D rendering (within VisualServer).
Each canvas item maintains a bound in local space of the item itself and all child / grandchild items. This allows branches to be culled at once when they don't intersect a viewport.
As many open source projects have started doing it, we're removing the
current year from the copyright notice, so that we don't need to bump
it every year.
It seems like only the first year of publication is technically
relevant for copyright notices, and even that seems to be something
that many companies stopped listing altogether (in a version controlled
codebase, the commits are a much better source of date of publication
than a hardcoded copyright statement).
We also now list Godot Engine contributors first as we're collectively
the current maintainers of the project, and we clarify that the
"exclusive" copyright of the co-founders covers the timespan before
opensourcing (their further contributions are included as part of Godot
Engine contributors).
Also fixed "cf." Frenchism - it's meant as "refer to / see".
Backported from #70885.
Calling queue_free() for large numbers of siblings could previously be very slow, with the time taken rising exponentially with number of children. This looked partly due to ordered_remove from the child list and notifications.
This PR identifies objects that are nodes, and sorts the deletion queue so that children are deleted in reverse child order. This minimizes the costs of reordering.
