Roadmap towards Babylon.js 4.0.0

[x] High level objectives

• Update to Babylon.js 4.0.0
  • Core library
  • glTF loader
  • Inspector
  • Materials library
  • Procedural textures library
• Full Windows support
• Improve feature support:
  • Shadows
  • Special FX

[x] February 2020

• Continue porting BabylonCpp core library to 4.1.0-beta.13 (version 13/12/2019)
• Debug rendering issues in the examples

[x] January 2020

• Continue porting BabylonCpp core library to 4.1.0-beta.13 (version 13/12/2019)
• Automatic sample regression tests
• Investigate ANGLE support
• Debug rendering issues in the examples

[ ] December 2019

• Finish Engine and Effect classes to v4.0.0
• Finish update BabylonCpp core library to 4.1.0-alpha.17
• Finish porting Node Material 4.1.0-alpha.17 version and enable in the build
• Start porting BabylonCpp core library to 4.1.0-beta.13 (version 13/12/2019)
• Start work on WebAssemply POC
  • Cleanup build scripts and extend for Emscripten toolchain
  • Implement asynchronous loading of files
  • Resolved build issues related to using Emscripten
  • Add support for SDL2
  • Investigate asynchronous asset loading in glTF loader

[x] November 2019

• Finish update glTF loader to version v4.0.0
• Improve code quality
  • Add support for clang-tidy
  • Resolve warnings reported by clang-tidy
  • Run clang-tidy to modernize the code
  • Make samples headerless
  • Fix common errors (i.e. sorting issue, issue related to removing items from vector)
  • Extend babylon_stl helper function file to improve code readability
• Remove hex planet generation extension because it is not support anymore
• Debug not working examples
• Investigate how to avoid recreating a scene when resizing the gui
• Add RecastJS extension
  • Add Recast Navigation dependency
  • Add babylon core navigation headers
  • Port RecastJSPlugin and related files
  • Add Crowds and navigation agents example

[x] October 2019

• Start update BabylonCpp core library to 4.1.0-alpha.17
• Fix .babylon file loading issues
• Fix Inspector v2.0 scene graph
• Test bigger scenes
  • Hill Valley demo

[x] September 2019

• Investigate and test BabylonNative
• Start porting Node Material 4.1.0-alpha.17 version
• Resolve VS2017 issues
  • Enable unit tests
  • Test examples

[x] August 2019

• Update BabylonCpp core library to v4.0.0 (-> 99 %)
• Test offscreen rendering
• Replace SampleLauncher by SampleRunner

[x] July 2019

• Update BabylonCpp core library to v4.0.0 (-> 95 %)
• Remove OimoCpp

[x] June 2019

• Update BabylonCpp core library to v4.0.0 (-> 50 %)
• Update Inspector v2.0: third iteration
  • Add post-processes property grids
• Add Solid Particle System examples (Documentation)
  • Buildings SPS scene
  • Lighted SPS scene
• Test glTF 2.0 Sample Models
  • Simple models for testing individual features
    • Animated Morph Cube
    • Animated Morph Sphere
    • Simple Morph
    • Simple Material
    • Simple Texture
  • PBR models
  • Further PBR models

[x] May 2019

• Start update BabylonCpp core library to v4.0.0 (-> 25 %)
• Improve build management
  • Add Clang compiler to Travis CI
  • Add MacOSX target to Travis CI
• Add Solid Particle System examples (Documentation)
  • A lot of triangles with SPS (Not fully working yet!)
• Test glTF 2.0 Sample Models
  • Simple models for testing individual features
    • Animated Triangle
  • More complex models
    • Duck