render3d: grass in chunks of 256 tiles a draw, flower casters only into the cascades they reach

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Grass (Vulkan with multi-draw indirect): every visible tile is a record in one buffer, uploaded once a
frame, and each band draws its records 256 at a time. A record's firstInstance is its place in the
chunk times 65536; grass.vert's TILES variant reads that place's corner and indices per cell from
u_tiles. R3D_GRASS_TILES=1 keeps a draw per tile. OpenGL is unchanged.

Casters: a LOD level with no impostor is drawn into a shadow cascade only when its distance band,
widened by six times its height, the camera's height over the ground and the frustum's corner reach,
can touch that cascade's receivers. The flowers' mesh levels (6 - 30 m) leave the three outer
cascades. R3D_CAST_ALL=1 draws every level everywhere. OpenGL frames byte-identical at all five
viewpoints; alpha-tested shadow draws at a 460 -> 244.

gpu_has_mdi() guards both this and the GPU-culled trees' multi-record draws.

Camp: Mac Vulkan 2645 -> 2191 (grass) -> 2034 draws; PC 2657 -> 2046, self-tests 59/59, validation 0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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