Rewrite the Technological Landscape

Meng Qian is quite confident in the development of "Audition", because this brand-new game type, coupled with the influence of Dafeng Entertainment and the care in game design, will attract a group of players to some extent.

The former "Audition Company" could become popular like that, but Meng Qian believes that the current "Audition Company" at least won't be too bad.

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

At the same time, Blizzard also released a set of pictures and a few small videos at the press conference, and of course there are some instructions.

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

Meng Qian deliberately asked questions to see how the current employees would react.

"We can achieve this kind of game quality." Li Feiqing almost blurted out, without any ambiguity when he said this.

"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 deduct the details, it's very rough."

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

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

"The main reason is that Blizzard's game is really not too amazing. If it is released now, it may be regarded as the first-line quality in online games, but he said that it will not be released until the end of the year." Song Zhenluo looked around the people around him, "I think We have nothing to worry about."

Meng Qian was relatively calm on the surface, but he felt very relieved in his heart. The ability and confidence of this group of employees in the game development department have been established. The backwardness of Huaxia Games is also a problem of experience and lack of self-research. Meng Qian made plans in advance Cultivated a group of talents and forced everyone to do their own research, but the effect is still coming out.

Games are not that difficult, especially in this era, if an elite team can be cultivated, it is enough to continue the brand of a game company, "I haven't seen the 3D game engine you just developed, it seems that I should go to it Enjoy it."

Coming to the game development department, Song Zhenluo opened a set of comparison pictures on his computer.

"Mr. Meng, we 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 look at the light and shadow effects first." Light and shadow effects are one of the three cores of the game engine. It involves the influence of various light sources on the characters, which is especially important for the simulation of the game.

Players who often play 3A masterpieces can understand the positive impact of high-quality light and shadow effects on games, because the essence of the colorful human world and the three-dimensional world we perceive is light. It is conceivable that once this world loses Light, will fall into a kind of despair.

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

The rendering engine is another core of the game engine. To put it simply, after the model is produced, the artist starts to map, and then calculates and generates the model, animation, light source, special effects and other effects on the screen in real time through the rendering engine, so the rendering engine decides , which is the final output game quality that the player can see.

This time it was replaced with more than a dozen sets of dynamic comparison pictures, and after viewing the renderings, Song Zhenluo's expression suddenly changed slightly, "Mr. Meng, let's take a look at the physical system at last."

The physics system is the last one of the three cores of the game engine. It sets the gravity, acceleration and other physical foundations through the system to determine the jump height and trajectory of the characters in the game.

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 few scenes, where the character rides a mount in different harsh environments. The state of turbulence, the handling performance while flying, and the immediate impact of character manipulation on objects."

Meng Qian could see that in different environments, such as grasslands, snow fields, deserts, hills, etc., the mount's bumping range and bumping state are clearly different, and even the speed of travel is different. During the flight, different altitudes have different effects on the flight, which are done very meticulously. Finally, there are some immediate effects, such as footprints when walking, grooves generated when mining, etc.

After seeing everything, Meng Qian understood something in his heart, only to see Song Zhenluo continue, "Mr. Meng looks at this again, this is a landscape, this is the performance of the characters here in a sunny environment, this is a rainy day The performance of the characters here."

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

"Mr. Meng continues to look down."

Looking at the expressions of Song Zhenluo and others, Meng Qian waited patiently for a while, and then saw the game character slipping and rolling down to his death while going up the mountain.

Looking at the small expressions of pride on everyone's faces, Meng Qian pointed out the root cause, "Artificial intelligence."

"Mr. Meng is right." Song Zhenluo called up the code, "The performance of the deep learning taught by Mr. Meng in the game exceeded our expectations. The larger the data we provide, the more the deep learning can show. Strong learning ability, although we all understand that this is actually a big data analysis, but putting the results of this big data analysis into the game greatly improves the intelligence of the game."

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

Meng Qian nodded. He is clear about the performance of the future generations of artificial intelligence in the game. Meng Qian is more pleased that his employees can think of using deep learning. After all, in terms of current computing power, the potential of deep learning is not enough. It was too obvious, "Is this why you think World of Warcraft is not to be feared?"

"Not only that." Song Zhenluo looked at everyone, "Our company has another advantage. We mentioned this matter to Mr. Gu before, and he said that today we will 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 wants to change the traditional motherboard structure. This year, Harris proposed to use GPU for general computing. Our team has done some research on this idea. discuss.

We think this may become a major trend, so I don’t know if Mr. Meng has arranged for 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 is successful.

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

The relief that Meng Qian held back for a day finally showed on his face. These employees of his are not only hardworking and capable, but now they have a bigger structure. They no longer simply listen to the orders of the leaders and only care about themselves. Employees who do their job well.

Everyone has grown up.

Looking at the eager eyes of everyone, Meng Qian nodded without hesitation, "No problem, the project will be established tomorrow."