APE Tech November Round-up

Each month, I'm going to try and do a monthly round-up of the progress I've made with APE Tech, mostly for my own benefit, so I don't feel like I'd spent the month doing absolutely nothing. So here we go for November.

• Added support for issuing launch arguments via engine config
• Added support for parsing commands from the command-line
  
• Added workaround to allow materials to set shader uniform arrays
  
• Added 'show_face_bounds' cvar for displaying face bounding volumes
• Added 'skip_room_cull' to disable room culling (will render all rooms instead)
  
• Added alternate version-based io functions
• Added support for fullscreen borderless mode
• Added anisotropic filtering
• Added an opt-out option for projects, which will hide them from the project selector
  
• Added multithreaded recording feature to the engine, output to either jpeg or qoi
• Added methods for rendering sprites w/ rotating, clipping, scale, offset etc.
• Added the ability for game logic to override engine draw
  
• Fixed post-processing effects, such as bloom, not respecting super-sampling
• Fixed post-processing effects not appearing in screenshots
  
• Fixed fog; near/far needed adjusting following changes to camera code
  
• Fixed auto-complete list displaying incorrectly
  
• Fixed 'show_room_volumes' cvar, which was discarded following changes to renderer
  
• Fixed stencil shadow volumes appearing incorrectly for imported meshes
• Removed shell "window" API; shell now has to create viewport instance, and going forward the engine is completely oblivious to any windows
• Render target is now automatically created alongside viewport
  
• Prototyped editor frontend using GTK instead of FOX (and then scrapped)
• Experimented with a simplified scripting language implementation (and then scrapped)
  
• More progress on RFII RFL support
• Font tool can now be built and used under Windows
• Window swap can now be requested by the engine
• Expanded sky layer system to allow for explicit offsets, alpha and scale
• Reset versioning; 4.0.0 → 0.4.0 
• Exposed internal editor API from ACL
• Named editor as Forge