Planetary Engine V3: Continents and Vertex Texture

I finaly implemented a basic continental line
I also took the ocasion to fix an issue that caused the first texture to get erased when the device was initialised.



 I also implemented vertex texture fetch for irrlicht  dx9 driver.

There is not much diference it's only much faster when generating the mesh.




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