Fixed problems with Hydra render delegates during launch of Houdini #32
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There are a couple of issues I noticed with the setting of the Hydra render delegate when Houdini is launched.
First, XUSD_ImagingEngineGL::SetRendererPlugin() is called numerous times with the renderer ping-ponging between the default renderer (HD_HoudiniRendererPlugin aka Houdini GL), and our custom render delegate (ChmRendererPlugin aka Chimera). This causes the render delegates (and their associated plugins) to be constructed and destructed multiple times.
The big problem we were having with this was that during the construction, destruction, and setting of render delegates (and their associated plugins), a shared context is created which subsequently becomes invalid when the plugin that created it is destructed. And since the shared context can only be initialized once (see GlfGLContextRegistry::GetShared()) every time somebody wants to use it, they get an invalid context.
The underlying problems and solutions are twofold: