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Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter

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Re: Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter

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Post by icemelt8 »

jjmarr wrote: post #217
harrall wrote: post #186

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I like it because I can see kids, no matter what vehicle I’m in. I have unusually good spatial skills. I have parallel parked and reverse parked perfectly every single time for over 5 years… …but no matter what, I cannot see behind my bumper. No mirror on any car points there.

The law was passed due to sustained lobbying from a man, Greg Gulbransen, who ran over his child

What an amazing piece of information in a thread about a game engine, thanks for sharing this.

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Post by globular-toast »

bobthepanda wrote: post #43
munificent wrote: post #32

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> no displays In the US, no. Backup cameras are required by federal law as of 2018. The intent of the law was to reduce the number of children killed by being backed over because the driver couldn't see them behind the car.

It is crazy how many things are downstream of the structural issue where US regulations favor ginormous SUVs and pickups where this is a problem, but if we introduced legislation to fix this we would end up ruining US automakers which have pivoted almost entirely to this segment alone

You can give people more. You cannot give people less.

That's it. That's all our problems.

Re: Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter

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Post by globular-toast »

badc0ffee wrote: post #49
bobthepanda wrote: post #43

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It is crazy how many things are downstream of the structural issue where US regulations favor ginormous SUVs and pickups where this is a problem, but if we introduced legislation to fix this we would end up ruining US automakers which have pivoted almost entirely to this segment alone

It's not just ginormous SUVs with this problem, though, right? You're not going to see a 18 month old out the back window of your compact hatchback if they're too close to your car. Especially now that windows seem to be tinier than they used to.

Why are infants materialising out of nowhere behind cars? There must be something else going on here.

When I reverse, there can't possibly be something behind my car, because I've just driven forwards over that area. When I begin to reverse, I'm looking all around behind and I'll be able to see if an infant, or dog or whatever, runs into the path I intend to take.

A lot of people tend to drive forwards into parking spaces then reverse out. I've no idea why, because it's far easier to reverse in then drive forwards out. And I reckon much safer too. If people are sitting in their cars for extended periods then beginning to drive in reverse, I can see this being a problem. But there are also vehicles that you wouldn't be able to see an infant in front of the car either.

Re: Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter

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Post by Kelteseth »

debugnik wrote: post #86
Aurornis wrote: post #51

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This is specifically designed to embed into Flutter apps, which have specific requirements how they interact with the GPU and renderer. They already tried other engines, such as Unity. The team didn't just go off and build something without trying existing solutions first.

Toyota complained about poor performance on all of Unity, UE and Godot, but also about long startup times with Godot. I don't know how bloated Godot is, but AFAIK libgodot development started as part of Migeran's automotive AR HUD prototype so I'm surprised to hear it has poor startup time for a car.

> long startup times with Godot

As a user of libGodot embedded into our existing c++ tech stack, I can say we do not have this issue.

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Post by BartShoot »

mdtrooper wrote: post #279

It's sad, but in the battle for a free ecosystem in video games, we must all join forces towards a single goal. IMHO, it's Godot.

the real free ecosystem is your programming language of choice, audio and graphics drives with I/O from the system

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Post by oceansky »

osullivj wrote: post #278
oceansky wrote: post #199

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"Nice car. What kind of engine does it have?" "V8" "Which kind of V8?"

Flat plane or cross plane? Cross plane cranks necessitate an asymmetric firing order, which produces the wonderful burble from US V8s. Flat plane is more common in Europe - think Ferrari - and has a symmetric firing order that produces a toneless metallic howl.

I was talking about the Chrome kind of v8.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V8_(JavaScript_engine)

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Post by harel »

germandiago wrote: post #258
harel wrote: post #193

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This. I find bringing in the LLM when there is a good structure already in place is better. I also use it sparingly, asking it for very specific things. Write me tests for this, or create me a function that does this or that. Review this, extend that etc.

They are pretty good at "scaffold this for me" and you adapt as a second step. That is one of the three uses I give them. The other two are: infra scripting, which tends to be isolated: "generate a python script to deploy blabla with oarameters for blabla...". That saves time. The third use is exploring alternative solutions, high level, not with code generation, to stimulate my thinking faster and explore solutions.…

Yes, I agree on all points. Also, I keep finding new use cases all the time. So, going all poetic; part of me laments the death of my craft, and the other rejoices at the superpowers of what rises from the ashes...

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Post by testdelacc1 »

badc0ffee wrote: post #187
testdelacc1 wrote: post #117

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What’s really crazy was Trump forcing the UK to change road safety rules so they could sell more American pick up trucks in the UK. So pedestrian deaths would start rising again.

I'm having trouble imagining American pickup trucks fitting on the road in the UK. Aren't the lanes and the cars all much narrower?

You’d think people would buy cars that fit the streets. And yet I see more than a few people with American pickup trucks on the streets.

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Post by silon42 »

alt227 wrote: post #83
Fwirt wrote: post #64

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Backup cameras do contribute significantly to safety, to the point that I installed one in my 2002 vehicle with a cheap aftermarket head unit. The important thing to realize is that all the modern conveniences can be decoupled from the drivetrain. My $50 Android head unit does basically all the things that the OEM head unit on our 2018 vehicle does. It even does many things better. The problem with modern cars is tha…

> buy one of those tablets that you stick on your dashboard and plug into the aux port Every single car I have been in in the last 5 years or so has Bluetooth. No need for aux ports in this day and age, especially when devices dont have headphone jacks anymore. Are you stuck in the 2000's?

On this site I read about Bluetooth security problems and then turn it off for a few months...

I've now seen that Android has an option to turn on Bluetooth every day... I turned it off.

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