BGE: New hysteresis offset to improve LOD level transitions

This change introduces a new hysteresis parameter that it will be added
or subtracted to/from the LOD distance to avoid popping when a LOD
object moves close to the LOD transition continuously.

Then, we have the following:

- a new LOD Hysteresis setting per scene (default 10%) which is located
in Scene context --> Level of Detail panel. This scene parameter also
will active/deactive the scene hysteresis.
- and a new LOD Hysteresis setting per object (default 10%) which is
located in Object context --> Levels of Detail panel. The LOD hysteresis
setting per object (if active) will overwrite the hysteresis setting per
scene value.

For the new blends: the hysteresis setting per scene would be active by
default and the per object would be inactive by default.
For the old blends: both hysteresis settings (per scene and per object)
would be inactive by default. A quick way to take advantage of this
feature for old blends would be to activate the hysteresis parameter in
the scene context -> Level of Detail panel

Reviewers: campbellbarton, kupoman, moguri

Reviewed By: kupoman, moguri

Subscribers: nonamejuju, lordodin

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D957

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/makesdna/DNA_object_types.h b/source/blender/makesdna/DNA_object_types.h
index 2699bb5f22f..4cb979c57b7 100644
--- a/source/blender/makesdna/DNA_object_types.h
+++ b/source/blender/makesdna/DNA_object_types.h
@@ -109,7 +109,8 @@ typedef struct LodLevel {
 	struct LodLevel *next, *prev;
 	struct Object *source;
 	int flags;
-	float distance;
+	float distance, pad;
+	int obhysteresis;
 } LodLevel;
 
 typedef struct Object {
@@ -484,6 +485,7 @@ enum {
 enum {
 	OB_LOD_USE_MESH		= 1 << 0,
 	OB_LOD_USE_MAT		= 1 << 1,
+	OB_LOD_USE_HYST		= 1 << 2,
 };