Toyota unveils its Fluorite gaming engine

Toyota, through its subsidiary Toyota Connected North America, has announced the creation of its own game engine called Fluorite. Eurogamer reports this with reference to Automaton and Game*Spark.

Fluorite is tightly integrated with Google’s Flutter framework and uses the Dart programming language to implement logic and user interface. The main task of the development is to ensure high performance even on low-power or specialized equipment, including processing 3D graphics and interactive interfaces in the car cabin.

Features of the Toyota Fluorite game engine

Among the key features of the engine is the Entity Component System core, written in C++ and optimized for work on devices with limited resources. Fluorite also offers a system of trigger touch zones defined at the model level. This allows artists to work in Blender and more precisely place interactive areas, simplifying the creation of three-dimensional interfaces.

Another important feature is support for 3D rendering of game consoles, implemented on the basis of the Filament library from Google. This solution allows to improve the quality of graphics on car displays. In addition, the engine supports the Hot Reload function with Flutter, which allows you to update scenes and interface elements without restarting the system.

According to Game*Spark, Toyota initially considered the possibility of using existing game engines, but faced high licensing costs and resource requirements. This led to the creation of its own solution.

Toyota is positioning Fluorite as a fully open source engine. Although the company has no plans to enter the video game market, the tool will be available to independent developers who can use it in their own projects.