Distribute shadow map update over multiple frames to reduce stutter (#11422)

Reduces stutter and freezes when playing.

 * Maintains double SM and SM Color textures
 * Light frustum update triggers incremental generation of shadow map into secondary 'future' textures.
 * Every incremental update renders a portion of the shadow draw list (split equally).
 * After defined number of frames (currently, 4), 'future' and 'current' textures are swapped, and DirectionalLight 'commits' the new frustum to use when rendering shadows on screen.

Co-authored-by: sfan5 <sfan5@live.de>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/client/shadows/dynamicshadows.h b/src/client/shadows/dynamicshadows.h
index a53612f7c..d8be66be8 100644
--- a/src/client/shadows/dynamicshadows.h
+++ b/src/client/shadows/dynamicshadows.h
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ struct shadowFrustum
 	core::matrix4 ProjOrthMat;
 	core::matrix4 ViewMat;
 	v3f position;
+	v3s16 camera_offset;
 };
 
 class DirectionalLight
@@ -47,7 +48,7 @@ public:
 
 	//DISABLE_CLASS_COPY(DirectionalLight)
 
-	void update_frustum(const Camera *cam, Client *client);
+	void update_frustum(const Camera *cam, Client *client, bool force = false);
 
 	// when set direction is updated to negative normalized(direction)
 	void setDirection(v3f dir);
@@ -59,6 +60,8 @@ public:
 	/// Gets the light's matrices.
 	const core::matrix4 &getViewMatrix() const;
 	const core::matrix4 &getProjectionMatrix() const;
+	const core::matrix4 &getFutureViewMatrix() const;
+	const core::matrix4 &getFutureProjectionMatrix() const;
 	core::matrix4 getViewProjMatrix();
 
 	/// Gets the light's far value.
@@ -88,6 +91,8 @@ public:
 
 	bool should_update_map_shadow{true};
 
+	void commitFrustum();
+
 private:
 	void createSplitMatrices(const Camera *cam);
 
@@ -99,4 +104,6 @@ private:
 	v3f pos;
 	v3f direction{0};
 	shadowFrustum shadow_frustum;
+	shadowFrustum future_frustum;
+	bool dirty{false};
 };