APE Tech December Round-up

Been a slower month this time around, mostly due to Christmas and also because I'd decided to take a bit of a break following the Rayman Alive reveal.

• All: simplified how configs work, and consolidated it all into com library
• Core: texture API finally uses the same garbage collection used elsewhere
• Core: config can now be provided alongside a texture to specify various properties
• Core: temporarily reintroduced the ability to load an RFL
• Core: cameras will now handle visibility explicitly
• Core: camera is now almost always grabbed from the viewport when rendering
• Core: fixed invalid camera reference when obtaining visible lights
  
• Core: world is now almost always grabbed from the camera when rendering
  
• Core: moved more game-specific logic over into the game library
• Core: we now check if editor is active before allowing for viewport override
• Core: overflow for sky layers is now handled in a more graceful manner
• Core: fallback is now used if material isn't found for sky layer
• Core: fixed several bugs with postfx
• Core: fixed stencil shadow volumes not working due to missing buffer attachment
• Core: added isometric camera mode support
• SDL2 Shell: fixed display issues on Windows and improved resolution handling
• SDL2 Shell: introduced a config for the shell; specify what project it should use
• Forge: renamed editor frontend to 'Forge'
• Forge: fixed a crash when displaying warning messages while setting up paths
  
• Forge: fixed project generation
  
• Forge: fixed project lookup on init and made the selection list a little bit larger
• Forge: removed support for project icons
• Forge: added new icons for the editor
• Forge: experimenting w/ tabulated workflow for editor tools
• Forge: moved world editor workflow into its own class so we can utilise it as a tab
  
• Forge: check for cooking tool on startup so we can use it for processing imports
• Forge: use new unified config API for fetching the editor config
  
• Forge: fixed warning prompt displayed for invalid projects and project generation
• Forge: colour scheme can now be modified via the config
• Forge: viewports can now be marked inactive, in which case they won't be updated
  
• Forge: introduced context options for viewport, rather than original overhead menus
  
• Cook: made a start on a new model cooking interface to replace the old one
  
• SS1: pulled code out of the dark ages
• SS2: tweaked default day/night cycle speed