v0.24.0

Full Changelog: v0.23.1...v0.24.0

• complete render pipeline remake using a graph-based system with cascaded caching
• render pipeline additions to original implementations; ssao, ambient collusion, gltf, compact memory, reduce bandwidth usage, residency, 4k texture support, async work, render pipeline hooks (intercept at different stages), , etc.
• fixed portal bugs
• editablemesh and editableimage improvements
• resident gpu improvements
• integrated level-of-detail engine-level system: custom LOD and decimate/reduce LOD options
• visual elements have compute shader support (textures, meshes, editables, etc)
• full PBR support (including emissive)
• fog, clouds and skybox compute shader support
• compute and heap profiler improvements
• resident particles improvements and fixes
• studio caching bug fixes
• framegraph (flamegraph) improvements
• portals and lighting fixes and improvements
• lights and shadows cast through portals
• foreign world portal capturing with lights and shadows
• studio general fixes for elements
• studio enhancements for elements
• studio layout tweaks
• physics solver improvements
• replication improvements
• example and demo layout tweaks
• MCP data factory accesses exposed graph pipeline points for rendering and physics as read-only. mainly for external ai model training for world, 2d, 3d and temporal work.
• MCP improvements and additions
• python API for data factory demo
• data scene service and optional disable
• MCP pause/resume/step/snapshot/checkpoint/restore commands for precise tests and checks
• editable image buffer conversions
• teamcreate tests and fixes
• studio selection and selection box fixes
• shader fixes (thermal)
• in-game user interface fixes
• adornment fixes
• flipbook texture fixes
• flipbook demo fixes
• particle atlas RGBA support and fixes
• studio built-in engine asset loading fixes
• LOD debug views and labels
• preferences for LOD distance tweaks
• many added tests and benchmarks
• worst-case cpu work fixes (magic demo)
• update documentation with MCP datafactory api.
• document layout tweaks
• optimised building on all platforms (way faster, cache smaller)
• profiled and improved build times
  and more that i have not listed that i forgot about.