Why is a full game engine needed to display a GUI for unlocking a door? There are endless simpler solutions. The apps I use every day don't use game engines (except games).
replyA game engine is sort of just a UI toolkit for interacting with 3d objects. If you want a 3d model you can interact with, you call that a game engine. Should they invent something new because they dislike the word "game"?
replyWorked for a shop that had the hardest time grasping this. We had to tell them UE4 was a "3D Rendering Engine" because they couldn't get over the term "game engine" in planning meetings...
replyBecause modern cars compete with animations that amaze users/buyers.
replyIn either way, it will be open source and quite fun to build stuff on top.
Because you need and want all the fancy features such as
reply - fancy HDR rendering with reflection planes,atmospheric effects, tone mapping, camera effects, all kinds of animations for doors opening, lights turning on off etc
- content pipelines to get all this data from digital creation tools into packages deployable on target
The market for automotive features in the US diverged from "need" long ago.
replyGame engines, UI frameworks, desktop environments, and web browsers all share a lot of features. The Arcan project is my favorite piece of software running with this idea rn
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