Roadmap towards Babylon.js 3.3.0

[x] High level objectives

• Update to Babylon.js 3.3.0
• Improve code quality
• Improve feature support:
  • PBR Materials
  • Meshes
  • Optimizations
  • Special FX
  • Textures
• Add Inspector v2.0
• Support for basic glTF 2.0 model loading

[x] April 2019

• Refactor animation values update
  • Remove IReflect interface
  • Fix animation value getters and setters
  • Fix easing functions examples (Documentation)
• Fix Physically Based Rendering (PBR) examples (Documentation)
  • Fix PBR Metallic Roughness Material examples
  • Fix PBR Specular Glossiness Material examples
• Add examples:
  • Morph targets example (Documentation)
  • Glass wubble ball (Documentation)
  • Collisions Scene (Documentation)
• Update Inspector v2.0: second iteration
  • Reimplement scene explorer
  • Avoid callbacks in property lines where possible
  • Resolve property grid layout issues
  • Add logging tab
• Add feature info to the samples page and remove 'Feature list' wiki page

[x] March 2019

• Add glTF File Loader Plugin
  • Port main code
  • Test with glTF models (Assets)
    • Simple models for testing individual features
      • Triangle Without Indices
      • Triangle
      • Simple Meshes
      • Simple Sparse Accessor
      • Cameras
    • More complex models
      • Box
      • Box Interleaved
      • Box Textured
      • Box Vertex Colors
• Fix Sprites issues and add example

[x] February 2019

• Improve code quality
  • Add support for async functions
• Add Inspector v2.0: first iteration
  • Remove old Inspector code
  • Port main BabylonJS inspector v2.0 code
  • Investigate ImGui tree rendering
  • Investigate how to mimic BabylonJS inspector v2.0 gui
  • Add Font Awesome 5.7.0 icons
• Resolve example scenes issues
  • Fix 360 photos example issues (Documentation)
• Debug .babylon file format loading
  • Fix Mixamo model loading

[x] January 2019

• Resolve VS2017 issues
  • Resolve compiler error
  • Resolve compiler warnings
  • Re-enable AppVeyor builds
  • Resolve threading blocking issue in logging destructor
• Add core features examples
  • Example of how to apply a material to individual faces (Documentation)
  • Clip planes example (Documentation)
  • Local cubemaps example (Documentation)
• Add code sippets tests (index)
  • Minimise Vertices (Documentation)
  • Spherical Panning (Documentation)
  • Check When Point is Inside a Mesh (Documentation)
  • Create Points Inside a Mesh (Documentation)
• Debug and add .babylon file format loading examples (Dude.babylon, babylonJS_logo_v3.babylon, candle.babylon, dummy3.babylon, Rabbit.babylon, Suzanne.babylon)
• Add basic bones and skeletons (rotation) example (Documentation)
  • Fix model loading issues
  • Debug animations

[x] December 2018

• Finish update to Babylon.js version v3.3.0
• Add Follow Camera examples (Documentation)
  • Follow Camera Scene with box instances
  • Rollercoaster Scene
• Add ENV texture loading functionality (Not working yet!)
• Add 'Look at' example (Documentation)
• Add Intersections example (Documentation)
• Add Custom postprocesses examples(Documentation)
  • Dawn Bringer example
  • Heatwave example
  • RGB Shift Glitch example
• Volumetric Light Scattering (Not working yet!) (Documentation)
• 360 photos example (Not working yet!) (Documentation)
• Add test scenes (Documentation)
  • v2.2.0 demo scenes
    • Edges Render Scene
  • v3.0.0 demo scenes
    • Ray Helper Scene
    • Kernel Based Blur Scene
    • Blur Mode For Mirrors Scene
    • Multi Sample Render Targets Scene

[x] November 2018

• Integrate JSON for Modern C++ for cleaner and more modern code
• Add Multi-Views example (Documentation)
• Add basic Post-processes examples
  • Black and white then blur scene
  • Convolution Post-process Scene (Documentation)
• Add reflection examples (Documentation)
  • Equirectangular map as reflection texture (Documentation)
  • High Dynamic Range (HDR) cube texture scene (Documentation)
  • Spherical Reflection Texture scene (Documentation)
  • Mirrors (Documentation)
• Add render target texture examples
  • Portals Scene
  • Custom render targets
• Fix instanced based rendering and add example

[x] October 2018

• Add feature list overview page
• Add examples for rendering sky boxes (Documentation)
  • 6 sky texture based example (Documentation)
  • DDS texture based example
• Add StandardMaterial examples (Documentation)
  • Glossiness and roughness example
  • Refraction and Reflection example
• Add Lens Flares example (Documentation)
• Add Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) example (Documentation)
• Add Displacement map (CPU) example (Documentation)
• Add Extrude polygon example (Documentation)
• Add Raycast on height map example (Documentation)
• Improve code quality
  • Using std::variant instead of custom variant type
  • Add JSON for Modern C++ library