Stability Release before Large Scale API Refactoring.

[bryanedds]

Coming up on the scheduled next release will be a very large Nu API refactoring that makes interfacing with Nu much more ergonomic and streamlined! However, as you can infer, that will include many many shallow but breaking changes. Therefore, this release is a stability release meant to work for those who haven't yet had the time to convert their existing project code to the new API.

Noteworthy Changes -

• Fixed the launchSettings files that I didn't even want in the first place...
• Increased shadow seam size to fix shadow rendering out of bounds.
• Showing selected light frustums in Gaia.
• Conditionals around shadowTexCoords vec3 for potentially better accuracy.
• Using a more standard shadow depth representation for directional shadows.
• Renamed light matrix / frustum compute functions to reflect they refer to shadows specifically.
• Renamed GaiaState.txt to Nu.Gaia.State.txt.
• ImGui windows now processed in layout order.
• Bit of UI arrange in Gaia.
• Implemented World.mapRenderer3dConfig for basic convenience.
• Now sharing render/framebuffers among light maps.
• Increased SsrDistanceCutoffDefault to make it easier for users to get started working with SSR.
• Changed method of defining VAOs.
• Terrain crash fix.
• Fixed batching regression.
• Fixed text rendering regression.
• Might as well have 9 forward lights if we have 9 shadows in it!
• Update .NET dependencies and Jolt physics.
• Updated Prime and CSV dependencies.
• Fixed lack of Omnipresent specification for non-generic GuiDispatcher.
• Fixed spatial tree bugs.
• Reverted code to fix regression in Possible SSS regression due to depth map algo changes. #1048.

Full Changelog: v18.16.0...v18.17.0

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