Rewrite the Technological Landscape

Meng Qian is relatively confident in the development of "Audition", because this new type of game, coupled with the influence of Dafeng Entertainment and the dedication in game design, will somewhat attract a group of players.

Once "Audition" can be like that, now Meng Qian of "Audition" believes that at least it will not be too bad.

However, on the second day of "Audition" launched, Blizzard immediately launched the most classic version of Warcraft, "Warcraft 3 Ice Throne."

At the same time, Blizzard also put a set of pictures and a few short videos at the press conference, and of course some explanations.

"This is their large-scale online game, "World of Warcraft"." Meng Qian and the people in the game development department watched these things released by Blizzard. "From the perspective of the game screen and the game world view, it is better than our current domestic online games. Excellent, what do you think?"

Meng Qian deliberately raised questions, wanting to see how these employees will react.

"We can achieve this kind of game quality." Li Feiqing almost blurted out, there was no ambiguity when he said this sentence.

"The picture is nothing more than that." Si Yuhang followed Li Feiqing's words, "It's just the pursuit of an overall visual impact, but if you want to buckle the details, it's very rough."

"Indeed, the overall picture feels too rough, emphasizing the light and shadow effects but ignoring the agility. At first glance, it is very attractive, but it can't stand scrutiny at all, and it is uncomfortable to look at." Fu Qinyi Also put forward his own views on the content released by World of Warcraft.

"You seem to be very confident?" Meng Qian pretended to be surprised.

"The main reason is that Blizzard's game is really not too amazing. If it is launched now, it may be regarded as the first-line quality in online games, but he said that it will not be launched until the end of the year..." Song Zhenluo looked at the people around him. "I don't think we have anything to worry about."

On the surface, Meng Qian is relatively calm, but in his heart he feels very pleased. The ability and confidence of this group of employees in the game development department have been established. The backwardness of China Games is also the problem of experience and lack of self-research. Meng Qian has made arrangements in advance. After training a group of talents and compelling everyone to conduct self-study, the effect is still coming out.

The game is not that difficult. Especially in this era, it is enough to cultivate an elite team to continue the brand of a game company. "I have not seen the 3D game engine you just developed. It seems that I should go well. Enjoy it."

...

When he came to the game development department, Song Zhenluo opened a set of comparative pictures on his computer.

"Mr. Meng, we have made a comparison with the Unreal 2 game engine that was also developed this year, because Unreal 2 provides a lot of public data. Let's first look at the light and shadow effect." The light and shadow effect is one of the three cores of the game engine. What is involved is the influence of various light sources on the characters, which is particularly important for the simulation of the game.

Game players who often play 3A masterpieces can understand the positive impact of high-quality light and shadow effects on the game, because the colorful human world and the three-dimensional world we perceive, the essence of which is light, can imagine once this world is lost Light, what kind of despair will fall into.

Song Zhenluo gave dozens of sets of comparison pictures, and Meng Qian, as an art layman, can also see some differences. "Meng, let’s take a look at our rendering engine next."

The rendering engine is another core of the game engine. Simply put, after the model is made, the artist starts to map, and then the model, animation, light source, special effects and other effects are calculated and generated on the screen in real time through the rendering engine, so the rendering engine determines , It is the game quality of the final output that the player can see.

This time it was replaced with more than a dozen sets of dynamic comparison pictures, and after watching the rendering effects, Song Zhenluo's expression suddenly showed a subtle change, "Meng, let's take a look at the physical system last."

The physics system is the last one of the three cores of the game engine. It determines the jumping height and movement trajectory of the characters in the game by setting the physical basis such as gravity and acceleration through the system.

At the same time, the core collision test of the physics system can detect the physical edges of all objects in the game. "We will not compare basic actions such as jumping and running. We mainly compare these scenes. The characters ride in different harsh environments. The turbulence, the operational performance during flight, and the immediate impact of the operation of the characters on the object."

Meng Qian can see that in different environments, such as grasslands, snow, deserts, hills, etc., the bumps and bumps of the mount are different. Even the speed of travel is different. During the flight, the impact of different altitudes on the flight has different manifestations, which are done very carefully, and finally there are some immediate effects, such as the footprints when walking, the grooves generated when mining, etc.

After watching everything, Meng Qian understood something in his heart, and saw Song Zhenluo continue to say, "President Meng will look at this again. This is a mountain and river. This is the performance of the characters here in a sunny environment. This is a rainy day. The performance of the characters here."

"Under a unified environment, different weather conditions will also lead to different walking speeds and jumping heights, and the depth of the footprints is also obviously different." Meng Qian followed Song Zhenluo and said his observations.

"President Meng continues to look down."

Looking at the expressions of Song Zhenluo and others selling Guanzi, Meng Qian waited patiently for a while, and then saw the game character slipping and rolling down and falling to death.

Seeing the small proud expressions of everyone, Meng Qian pointed out the root, "Artificial intelligence."

"Meng is right." Song Zhenluo called out the code. "The performance of the deep learning that Meng taught us in the game has exceeded our expectations. The greater the data we provide, the more deep learning can show Strong learning ability. Although we all understand that this is actually a big data analysis, putting the results of this big data analysis into the game ~www.ltnovel.com~ has greatly improved the intelligence of the game."

"It can even bring a lot of surprises to players and improve the fun of the game." Li Feiqing added.

Meng Qian nodded. He knows the performance of future generations of artificial intelligence in the game. His own employees can think of using deep learning, which makes Meng Qian more gratified. After all, as far as the current computing power is concerned, the potential of deep learning is not enough. It was too obvious to show, "This is how you feel that World of Warcraft is not enough to be afraid of?"

"Not only that." Song Zhenluo glanced at each other. "Our company has another advantage. We mentioned this to Mr. Gu before. He said that today, let us directly connect with you."

"What advantage?"

"We have our own chip design team." Song Zhenluo was a little excited. "And I heard that Mr. Meng is going to change the traditional motherboard structure. This year Harris proposed to use GPU for general-purpose computing. Our team has worked on this idea. discuss.

We think this may become a big trend, so I don’t know if Mr. Meng has arranged a chip design team to develop graphics cards. We want to develop a common language by ourselves. We are considering the combination of graphics hardware and software, if this attempt succeeds.

Not only can we improve the quality of our games, we can also control the core foundation of future GPU development! "

The gratification that Meng Qian had been holding back for a day finally showed on his face. These employees of his own not only have hard work and ability, but now they also have a larger structure. They are no longer just listening to the leaders' orders and only caring about themselves. Employees who do their jobs well.

Everyone has grown up.

Seeing everyone's longing eyes, Meng Qian nodded without hesitation, "No problem, the project will be established tomorrow."