v4.17.1

HIGHLIGHTS:

• NRD updated to v4.17.1
• improved IQ (if DLSS is enabled NRD + DLSS-SR combo is used as the default, instead of DLSS-RR)
• implemented history confidence ("bye-bye, lags!")
• quality of life and readability improvements

MATCHING COMMITS:

• simplex (recommended): 552b1fb
• main: e35ab5b

DETAILS:

• PT: fixed shadow ray offsetting (regression)
• PT: improved SHARC usage (better IQ for single bounce reflections and glass)
• PT: implemented history confidence calculations (fast and simple, works in symbiosis with SHARC)
• PT: importance sampling enabled for all bounces (crucial for SHARC updates)
• PT: fixed material modulation with SG resolve
• UI: improvements
• UI: separated "cube" and "light" emission intensity
• CMake: improved robustness of dependencies
• Actions: updated script to reflect recent GitHub changes
• minus 300 lines of boilerplate code
• utilized powers of modern NRI
• eliminated the need in enum class Descriptor
• all kinds of resources can be created in any order (i.e. not matching a enum order)
• tweaked animation of cubes
• updated tests
• updated deps
• polishing