Approximate / force upgrade modes for Mitsuba 1 files #91
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Adds two command line flags (-D__load_permissive=1 and -D__upgrade_approximate=1) to the XML loader, which allow to ignore 'unreferenced X' errors and approximately replace currently unsupported features, respectively.
This PR still subsumes #90, since however I split the changes, they will create merge conflicts, if merged simultaneously. Therefore, to merge both, the simplest option is to only merge this one and close the other one.
The approximate load (-D__upgrade_approximate=1) mode can do the following:
Additionally, standard upgrades are extended by:
All these features were required by at least one actual Mitsuba 1 scene file on the internet.
For the sunsky required by many scenes, see the old updated PR (#85).