Important Changes

• Introduced LuminousIntensity (expressed in candela) and Illumination (expressed in lux) classes.
• Replaced Spot/Point lights specular and diffuse intensities with a single LuminousIntensity value.
• Replaced Directional lights specular and diffuse intensities with a single Illumination value.
• The specular, diffuse, sheen, clearcoat, and scattering models are now fully replaceable.
• The default lighting model is now glTF's.

New Features

General

• Implemented a debug drawer, which allowed for displaying clustered lighting AABBs and BVH.
• Implemented default textures, to prevent pipelines explosion.
• Added support for MSDF fonts.
• Added support for diffuse transmission.
• Added support for dispersion (chromatic aberration).
• Added support for webp images.
• Added support for basisu images.
• Added support for image inversion along X and Z axes (Y axis was already supported).
• CastorViewer can now directly open files from an external 3D file format.
• Implemented reflections from procedural sky.
• Implemented vertex pulling for rasteriser passes.
• castor::Angle, castor::Length, castor::Speed are now constexpr friendly.
• Added a way to disable far plane blur, in depth of field plugin.
• Added a way to display the irradiance map instead of the skybox (for showcase purposes).
• Improved smoothness for mouse nodes control, in CastorViewer.

Plugins

• Implemented anisotropic specular BRDF.
• Implemented Disney BRDF.

Bug fixes

• Fixed tree view limits.
• Many fixes to glTF importer plugin.
• Fixed dots issue in prefiltered environment map.
• Added display topology to pipeline flags, to prevent some issues when multiple topologies are mixed.
• Fixed a crash on CastorViewer application shutdown with an object selected.

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