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Fun fact: Godot is used by Tesla for their car visualization (including autopilot) in both the mobile apps and the in-car displays.

by flutas 5y ago

Nathanael_M 5y ago
This really is a fun fact, haha! I love hearing practical use cases for game engines.
- nrjames 5y ago
  The Godot editor itself is made with Godot, which is cool. Everything you see in the UI there is available for use in your own projects.
  - Nathanael_M 5y ago
    Another fun fact, wow. That makes expanding its capabilities much more accessible I suppose. If someone goes to the trouble of adding some new functionality, they can use that same knowledge/stack to add a handy UI to the functionality so it's more usable by everyone.
AdmiralAsshat 5y ago
Does Tesla contribute everything back? I see that Godot is MIT license, which unfortunately means that while it's great to see major companies using it, they're not legally compelled to upstream any changes they might be making in the engine for their uses.
- Mikeb85 5y ago
  Does it need to? Also what would Tesla contribute back, considering they're not actually in the gaming business?
  - AdmiralAsshat 5y ago
    No, it doesn't need to, that's part of my lament about using a permissive MIT license rather than a GPL one. > Also what would Tesla contribute back, considering they're not actually in the gaming business? If they use Godot completely out-of-the-box with no customization, then nothing. But the parent commented noted that they use it for their car visualization. If they made an internal fork to add in some performance tweaks, that would be the kind of thing that would benefit the community as a whole if it's upstreamed. And maybe Godot decides those changes actually aren't useful to anyone else and disregards them. But they might be, and that's the key.
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    - Mikeb85 5y ago
      It was rhetorical. Anyhow I'm happy it's MIT it makes selling proprietary apps more straightforward. And the Godot foundation has plenty of sponsors to keep the main devs happy anyway. I also heard the main "tweak" in Tesla's code is they basically just use the renderer on its own versus all the game engine features.
  - ehutch79 5y ago
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Fun fact: Godot is used by Tesla for their car visualization (including autopilot) in both the mobile apps and the in-car displays.

by flutas 5y ago

Fun fact: Godot is used by Tesla for their car visualization (including autopilot) in both the mobile apps and the in-car displays.

Nathanael_M 5y ago

This really is a fun fact, haha! I love hearing practical use cases for game engines.

nrjames 5y ago
The Godot editor itself is made with Godot, which is cool. Everything you see in the UI there is available for use in your own projects.
- Nathanael_M 5y ago
  Another fun fact, wow. That makes expanding its capabilities much more accessible I suppose. If someone goes to the trouble of adding some new functionality, they can use that same knowledge/stack to add a handy UI to the functionality so it's more usable by everyone.

AdmiralAsshat 5y ago

Does Tesla contribute everything back? I see that Godot is MIT license, which unfortunately means that while it's great to see major companies using it, they're not legally compelled to upstream any changes they might be making in the engine for their uses.

Mikeb85 5y ago
Does it need to? Also what would Tesla contribute back, considering they're not actually in the gaming business?
- AdmiralAsshat 5y ago
  No, it doesn't need to, that's part of my lament about using a permissive MIT license rather than a GPL one. > Also what would Tesla contribute back, considering they're not actually in the gaming business? If they use Godot completely out-of-the-box with no customization, then nothing. But the parent commented noted that they use it for their car visualization. If they made an internal fork to add in some performance tweaks, that would be the kind of thing that would benefit the community as a whole if it's upstreamed. And maybe Godot decides those changes actually aren't useful to anyone else and disregards them. But they might be, and that's the key.
  - deleted 5y ago
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  - Mikeb85 5y ago
    It was rhetorical. Anyhow I'm happy it's MIT it makes selling proprietary apps more straightforward. And the Godot foundation has plenty of sponsors to keep the main devs happy anyway. I also heard the main "tweak" in Tesla's code is they basically just use the renderer on its own versus all the game engine features.
- ehutch79 5y ago
  Funding donations