Merge pull request #1531 from heinezen/changelog-0.5.0

doc: Changelog v0.5.0

Author: TheJJ

doc/changelogs/engine/v0.5.0.md

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+# [0.5.0] - 2023-10-03
+All notable changes for version [0.5.0] are documented in this file.
+
+The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
+and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html) since release [0.4.0].
+
+## Added
+- New converter to create nyan modpacks
+- Support conversion for all game releases:
+  - Age of Empires 1 (1997)
+  - Age of Empires 1: Definitive Edition
+  - Age of Empires 2 (1999)
+  - Age of Empires 2: HD Edition
+  - Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition
+  - Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds
+  - *Age of Empires 2 (Trial Version)* for demoing the engine
+- Support for AoE1:DE and AoE2:DE graphic assets formats and documentation
+    - SLP v4.2 (converter)
+    - SMP
+    - SMX
+    - SLD
+- Pattern files for decoding AoE graphic assets with imHex
+  - SLP
+  - SLD
+- openage internal media formats documentation
+  - modpack definition
+  - sprite files (for animations)
+  - texture files (for spritesheet textures)
+  - palette files (for palette tables)
+  - terrain files (for terrain graphics)
+  - blendmask files (for terrain blending)
+  - blendtable files (for terrain blending)
+- Instructions for using vscode IDE
+- New engine subsystem implementations
+  - Presenter
+  - Input System
+  - Game Simulation
+- Demos for showcasing new engine subsystems
+  - 5 new renderer demos
+  - 1 new presenter demo
+  - 1 new input system demo
+  - 2 new game simulation demos
+- CI build status badges in README
+- New dependencies
+  - toml11 (C++)
+  - include-what-you-use (CMake, optional)
+  - lz4 (Python)
+  - mako (Python)
+  - toml (Python)
+- Type hints for Python code
+- NixOS packaging
+- Python log messages support lazy evaluation of strings
+- Add Ubuntu to optional CI build pipeline
+- Progress bar for converter media conversion
+- Integrate new renderer subsystem
+  - Parsers for openage media formats
+  - Game entity rendering
+  - Terrain rendering (in 3D!)
+  - Camera
+  - Simulation clock
+- New event-driven game simulation
+  - Simulation with event system
+  - generic game entities for objects in the game
+  - components for game entity attributes
+    - Idle
+    - Live
+    - Move
+    - Turn
+    - Activity
+    - CommandQueue
+    - Ownership
+    - Position
+  - systems for game logic
+    - idle
+    - move
+  - activity implementation for game entity control flow
+  - simulation event handlers
+    - spawn entity
+    - process command
+    - send command
+    - wait
+- New input management
+  - low level input handling from Qt
+  - high-level controllers for processing inputs
+    - game simulation controller
+    - camera controller
+- Coordinate system improvements
+  - new `scene` coordinate type for usage in renderer
+- nyan API interface
+- Documentation overhaul
+  - Documentation for new subsystems
+    - renderer
+    - GUI
+    - game simulation
+    - input system
+    - time management
+  - more guides
+    - running the engine
+    - optimizing code
+
+## Changed
+
+- Mark old game simulation implementation to legacy
+- Update macOS build instructions
+- Update dependencies
+  - Python >=3.9
+  - Cython >=0.29.32
+  - gcc >= 10
+  - clang >=10
+  - qt6 >= 6.2
+- Use Github Actions v3
+- Exported PNG files are created in-memory
+- Replace `unlikely`/`likely` macros with C++20 attributes `[[unlikely]]`/`[[likely]]`
+- Integrate new renderer subsystem
+  - Use presenter as main interface for graphical display
+  - GUI code using Qt6 and new renderer
+- Coordinate system improvements
+  - deprecate unused coordinate types
+    - CoordManager (replaced by camera class)
+    - camgame_delta (replaced by camera class)
+    - camgame (replaced by camera class)
+  - deprecated forbidden coordinate transformations
+- Update architecture documentation to reflect new engine architecture
+
+## Removed
+
+- Game simulation code generation from game data (replaced by nyan modpacks)
+- Remove unusued dependencies
+  - jinja2
+  - pyreadline
+- Integrate new renderer subsystem
+  - Remove dependencies to SDL2 in renderer
+- Remove Qt->SDL keybinding transformation from input system
+- Obsolete documentation
+  - milestones
+  - pathfinding
+
+## Fixed
+
+- macOS build on ARM architecture
+- Python version detection for Python>=3.10
+- Replace Python `distutils` with something that isn't deprecated
+- Compatibility with Cython 3.0
+- Fix a lot of horrible typos as usual
+
+## Full commit log
+
+https://github.com/SFTtech/openage/compare/v0.4.1...v0.5.0