Xie Mingzhe worked on the cards until 1:30 in the morning before going to bed.

In the dream, the Twelve Hairpins of Jinling and Jia Baoyu that he made all appeared in the Grand View Garden, recreating many classic scenes in A Dream of Red Mansions. Those vivid characters seemed to exist in reality, and when Xie Mingzhe woke up the next morning, he felt as if he had watched the TV series A Dream of Red Mansions again.

The Grand View Garden is a luxurious residence built by the Jia family to welcome Empress Yuanchun home to visit her relatives. Most of the stories in A Dream of Red Mansions take place in the Grand View Garden, where Jia Baoyu and several of the Twelve Hairpins live. The young children recite poems, paint, play the zither and drink tea here every day, as if they were living in a paradise far away from the chaos, leading a carefree, poetic life.

However, although the Grand View Garden seems far away from the world, it cannot escape the influence of the family's fate. The four major families go from prosperity to decline, and the atmosphere of the Grand View Garden also changes from joy to sorrow. This process of change closely revolves around the main line of the story - when talking about the Dream of the Red Chamber, the first scene that comes to mind is naturally the Grand View Garden.

As early as when he was making the Jinling Twelve Hairpins character cards, Xie Mingzhe had thought of making the Grand View Garden into a scene card.

However, the setting of the Grand View Garden is too large and too complex. It would be a blasphemy to the original novel to just make a courtyard and name it "Grand View Garden". But to fully reproduce the grandeur of the Grand View Garden is not something that can be achieved simply by drawing one or two paintings.

Xie Mingzhe had not mentioned this scene card before because he had not yet figured out how to draw it.

However, seeing the butterfly fantasy chosen by Ye Zhu and the misty forest chosen by Xu Changfeng during the competition yesterday, these complex battle maps gave him a lot of inspiration. In addition, the fragmented events in last night's dream reappeared, which made Xie Mingzhe suddenly think of a brilliant idea.

Since the entire Grand View Garden is too complex and large to be made into a battle map, why not make the map into a series of decomposition maps? Cards can be made into decks, and scene cards can also be made into sets!

He could draw the places where the main characters in the Dream of the Red Chamber lived separately as a scene card. Then he could piece together all the small courtyards into a complete map of the "Grand View Garden" using corridors, green plants, ponds and other exterior scenes. This is just like when making complex cards, first drawing the body, weapons and other parts separately, and then integrating the various parts.

In the future, when playing games, you can choose a courtyard from the Grand View Garden as the game scene. This way, not only can the grandeur and luxury of the Grand View Garden be fully presented, but it can also give Nirvana players more map choices.

When this idea came to mind, Xie Mingzhe immediately took out his laptop and began to carefully recall the residence of each person in the Red Mansion, taking notes of the key points while recalling.

In the Grand View Garden, Jia Baoyu lived in a place called "Yihong Courtyard". There were white walls outside the courtyard, poplars and willows were planted around it, and there was a rockery in the middle of the courtyard. On the plaque was written the words "Yihong Kuailv" written by Yuanchun. Yihong Courtyard was magnificent and elegant, just like a gentleman, and such a residence was also very suitable for Jia Baoyu's identity.

Facing Yihong Courtyard from a distance is the "Xiaoxiang Pavilion" where Lin Daiyu lives. The style of Daiyu's residence is completely different. It is surrounded by green bamboos and a clear spring flows under the bamboos. Xiaoxiang Pavilion lacks the luxury of aristocratic families, but is more quiet and elegant, which is more in line with Lin Daiyu's noble and aloof character. The "Hengwu Garden" where Xue Baochai lives is full of fragrance, with flowers blooming in the yard and many vines growing up around the rocks, looking vigorous and full of vitality.

Tanchun's "Qiu Shuang Zhai", Yingchun's "Zi Ling Zhou", Xichun's "Ou Xiang Xie", Li Wan's "Dao Xiang Village", Miaoyu's "Long Cui An"... every residence is closely related to the fate of its owner.

The original novel focused on describing the residences of Bao, Dai, and Cai, so Xie Mingzhe was deeply impressed by Yihong Courtyard, Xiaoxiang Pavilion, and Hengwu Garden. However, the living environments of other people were mostly just briefly described, and Xie Mingzhe could only make some environmental settings based on the owners' personalities and vague memories.

For example, Qiu Shuang Zhai is planted with many banana trees and sycamore trees, creating a carefree mood of listening to the rain on a moonlit night in the clear and crisp autumn weather, which fits Tanchun's decisive style. Ou Xiang She is built beside a pond, surrounded by lotus flowers and winding corridors, which has the elegant charm of a Jiangnan garden. Long Cui Nunnery is a temple where Miaoyu practiced as a monk. The place where monks live is very simple, with blue bricks and white walls, and everything is kept simple.

Xie Mingzhe tried his best to design the environment of each courtyard and drew several sketches according to his ideas. He spent a whole day sketching the sketches of a few small courtyards and was so exhausted that he was about to explode.

Drawing scenes was indeed his weak point, so he still had to ask Qin Xuan for help on how to perfect it.

Xie Mingzhe sent a message to Qin Xuan and Yu Ke asking them to come over when they were free, and the two of them came to the studio together after school that evening.

As soon as Yu Ke saw Xie Mingzhe, he ran over excitedly and asked, "Azhe, how was the result of your previous competition with the players from Fenghua Team 2? Did you win or lose?"

Xie Mingzhe raised three fingers and said with a smile: "Three consecutive wins."

In front of his senior, he was embarrassed to be too proud and had to show an attitude of "I am humble" and "I want to study hard", so that his senior would allow him to continue PK with the people from Fenghua Team 2.

However, in front of the innocent Xiao Ke, Xie Mingzhe could not suppress his joy. After all, he was playing against a professional player, and it was not easy to win three consecutive games. He had made great progress during this period and wanted to prove his strength in front of his teammates.

Yu Ke stared in disbelief: "Wow, so awesome! Did you really win three games in a row?"

Xie Mingzhe smiled and said, "Yes, after winning three games in a row, they were too embarrassed to play against me. It is said that the girl who lost to me had a nightmare after the game. She dreamed that she was persuaded by Qin Keqing to hang herself."

Yu Ke: “…”

Yu Ke had wanted to compliment him, but after hearing this, he swallowed back the compliments that were about to come out of his mouth - thinking of the nightmare he had had after the match with Xie Mingzhe, in which he dreamed of Wang Xifeng's laughter, he really didn't want to compliment him anymore.

Yu Ke felt a little sympathetic towards the girl who had a nightmare. He ignored Xie Mingzhe and turned to find Qin Xuan. He said excitedly, "Qin Xuan, did you bring the scene drawing you made? Show it to everyone!"

Xie Mingzhe was puzzled: "What scene picture?"

Qin Xuan explained: "It is the 3D model of the second scene card, the Vampire Castle."

Xie Mingzhe remembered that the vampire castle that Qin Xuan mentioned was the dark map he showed at the art exhibition. He decided to change it into a scene card for Xiao Ke to use. He had only made a sketch before, but he didn't expect that it would be made into a 3D model so quickly.

Just then, Chen Qianlin came down from the building. Xie Mingzhe immediately put away his smile, put on the attitude of a good disciple who was studying hard, walked over and said, "Master, come and sit down. Qin Xuan brought a new scene card!"

Chen Qianlin nodded, and sat down at the dining table with his younger brother Chen Xiao.

When everyone arrived, Qin Xuan turned on the holographic projection screen and played the 3D scene card demonstration image he made from the beginning.

Unlike the "Blood Pool Hell" where health is lost all over the map, the setting of this "Vampire Castle" is that a flock of crows will fly across the sky at regular intervals. The black crows cover the sky and block the already not-so-bright moonlight, plunging the entire scene into complete darkness.

Yu Ke is good at assassination. He can find the position of an opponent's card in advance when a flock of crows flies by, and send out ghost cards such as Nie Xiaoqian and Hei Wuchang with teleportation skills to kill the opponent unexpectedly in the dark.

This was a scene idea proposed by Qin Xuan himself, and Xie Mingzhe, Chen Qianlin and Chen Xiao all thought it was very good.

Yu Ke was extremely happy and gave Qin Xuan a nice guy card like crazy: "Qin Xuan, you are so nice that you made another map for me! I like this map very much. I will definitely practice it well and use it often in the future when I play individual games!"

Qin Xuan felt embarrassed by the compliment and coughed lightly, saying, "I just drew it casually. As long as you like it."

Since Qin Xuan brought the second scene card today, Xie Mingzhe wanted to discuss the scene design of the Grand View Garden with him. Xie Mingzhe took out a stack of papers, laid them out on the dining table, and used a computer to project all the pictures onto the holographic screen so that everyone could see them more clearly.

People were surprised to see so many rough drafts.

Yu Ke was quick to ask, "What are these?"

Xie Mingzhe said: "I have drawn a few sketches for you to see of the scenes we are going to make next."

When everyone took a closer look, they found that they were all scene compositions - the Yihong Courtyard with red walls and green willows, the Xiaoxiang Pavilion surrounded by green bamboos, the Hengwu Garden full of flowers, the Ouxiang Pavilion located beside the pond, etc., all of which were scenes named with three characters.

Qin Xuan asked in confusion: "So many courtyards? Aren't the scenes a bit repetitive?"

There are also many courtyard-type battle maps in the official gallery, such as libraries, botanical gardens, zoos, amusement parks, etc. No matter how innovative the environment design is, they are essentially the same type - obstacle maps.

For example, the tables and chairs in the library scene and the various amusement facilities in the playground. When playing the game, the card phantoms need to avoid these obstacles. For professional players, the playing methods of all obstacle maps are similar. As long as the movement of the cards is coordinated and the distance between the cards of both parties is controlled, the skills can be released as usual.

But Xie Mingzhe did not want to make the Grand View Garden series into a traditional obstacle course.

He had a very interesting idea - he wanted to turn the scene cards of the Grand View Garden into "event scenes".

Thinking of this, Xie Mingzhe pointed to the sketches and said, "This series of drawings, all put together, form a large scene, called 'Grand View Garden'. Such a large scene would be too complicated to make into a competition map. The cards would be hard to find, and it would become a game of hide-and-seek. The official would definitely not approve it, so I broke the large scene into many small scenes."

Chen Qianlin quickly understood what his disciple meant and said, "It's like dividing a large park into many different corners, and then taking out each corner to hold a competition?"

Xie Mingzhe nodded vigorously: "That's right!"

Chen Qianlin said, "Fenghua Club has made such a large scene map before. It was designed by your senior brother, a large forest scene, including fog area, swamp area, trap area, jungle area, flower bed area, vine area, etc. He broke a large forest into more than a dozen scene cards with different effects. The final forest scene is very grand, but each battle map has its own characteristics."

Xie Mingzhe was stunned. It turned out that his senior brother had also proposed such a design. They really had the same idea. He couldn't help but smile and said, "I thought so too. I want to make each small courtyard in the Grand View Garden into a different scene effect."

He took out a draft of Xiaoxiang Pavilion from the table and said, "For example, Xiaoxiang Pavilion is Lin Daiyu's residence. In this scene, I want to set up an event of 'Lin Daiyu died of tears'. When the event occurs, all the cards in the scene will fall into a sad state, and their defense will automatically decrease, which is equivalent to a negative effect scene card that reduces defense."

Chen Xiao nodded appreciatively after hearing this: "This is a good idea. The random event scene card will allow both sides to participate in the scene event during the game. It is fair to both sides and should be approved by the alliance. Under what circumstances will the event be triggered? Have you thought of a design?"

The key to scene card design is fairness. All cards are affected by the scene effects, and there can be no favoritism. Moreover, during the competition, since the first step is to choose the scene, when different scenes appear, players can also adjust their decks according to the scene.

Chen Qianlin suggested, "You can do this. When one of the players loses 4 or more cards, an event is triggered. In a single-player 7v7 match, when 4 cards are lost, it is usually the late stage. At this time, the group defense is reduced by 80%. The disadvantaged party can look for opportunities to counterattack, and the advantaged party can also take the opportunity to reap the rewards."

Xie Mingzhe only provides ideas, and the master is obviously more professional in checking the specific data.

As long as one side loses more than 4 cards, the Xiaoxiang Pavilion triggers the event "Lin Daiyu died of tears", and all cards in the scene fall into a sad state, and their defense is automatically reduced by 80%. Cards with only 20% defense left are easy to die. During the game, both players must not only pay close attention to the card skills, but also pay attention to the scene events. Once the event is triggered, they must respond as quickly as possible.

This kind of event scene card is really a huge test of the players' awareness.

Xie Mingzhe became more and more excited as he thought about it. He pointed to the draft of the "Longcui Temple" scene card and said, "Longcui Temple is Miaoyu's residence. You can set up a 'tea making' scene event. It will be triggered at regular intervals, and a batch of new tea made by Miaoyu will appear in the scene. All cards in the field can recover health by touching the tea, but the amount of tea is limited and needs to be fought for."

Yu Ke's eyes lit up: "In this way, this scene card becomes a map with a blood recovery effect. The blood recovery event will be triggered at regular intervals. During the game, you can use the scene blood recovery to save your life!"

Chen Xiao nodded in agreement: "Yes, with the scene health recovery, the card will be difficult to kill."

Chen Qianlin said: "If there are a limited number of teacups, we can design four of them, located in different positions in the east, south, west and north, which are equivalent to four health recovery pools, allowing both players to adjust the position of the cards to compete for them."

"Master, what you said makes sense. This will make the competition more interesting!" Xie Mingzhe pointed to the sketch of Hengwu Garden and said, "Hengwu Garden is full of flowers. I want to make it into an illusion control card. Every once in a while, the fragrance of flowers will float in the air, and all the cards in the scene will fall into the illusion of a sea of ​​flowers, and they can't see the real scene in front of them clearly."

"This kind of hallucination scene is usually triggered every 3 to 5 minutes." Chen Qianlin suggested, "The specific time can be set to 3 minutes first, and then modified in actual combat later. Qin Xuan, please make a note of it."

"Yeah, I've been taking notes." Qin Xuan listened while carefully writing down his ideas and suggestions in his light brain.

"Thank you for your hard work!" Xie Mingzhe coughed to clear his throat, then continued, "Qiu Shuang Zhai is full of sycamores and banana trees, and I want to make it into a rain scene. Listening to the rain on a moonlit night, rain hitting the banana trees, the whole scene is raining, and after all the cards are wet, the group attack speed is reduced."

"This is great! Many players in the league who love attack speed will definitely hate your rain scene picture." Yu Ke rubbed his hands excitedly and said, "What about Zi Lingzhou? How should we design it?"

Zi Lingzhou is Yingchun's residence. After she was forced to marry by her father, this place became idle. There was a description in the original novel that Baoyu often wandered around Zi Lingzhou and saw that there were only a few old women left here, the windows were lonely, and the flowers and plants on the shore were messy, unlike other places full of vitality. The whole scene of Zi Lingzhou was lonely and desolate, as if foreshadowing the owner's tragic fate after marriage.

Xie Mingzhe thought for a moment and said, "Qin Xuan, when you draw this map, try to make it as desolate as possible. Design it as a silent map. Every once in a while, the entire map will be silenced, preventing both sides from using skills."

This makes it easier to use normal attacks that don't rely on skills. However, the map is a double-edged sword. As long as you grasp the silence time of the map, you can also treat the silence of the entire map as a forced crowd control that cannot be lifted, avoiding the opponent's key skills.

Xie Mingzhe followed closely and said, "Ou Xiangxie is designed as a pure water battle scene, with the battle taking place in a pond with many lotus leaves. Cards standing on the lotus leaves will not be affected, but after falling into the pond, they will lose a lot of health every second."

Li Wan, the owner of Daoxiang Village, is a non-confrontational person and the president of the Begonia Poetry Society. Xie Mingzhe said: "Daoxiang Village can be set to make the entire map immune to control. Every once in a while, a range will be drawn in Daoxiang Village that is immune to control, and all cards in the scene will be immune to control."

Chen Qianlin thought thoughtfully: "In this way, if you bring Li Wan's card, you will be free from double control in the Daoxiang Village scene."

Xie Mingzhe nodded: "Yes, against control decks, using this scene can greatly reduce the probability of being controlled."

There is still one picture left of Yihong Courtyard where Jia Baoyu lived.

Xie Mingzhe recalled the classic "Yihong Courtyard Night Banquet" scene in A Dream of Red Mansions. The elders were not at home at that time, and it was Jia Baoyu's birthday. The maids in Yihong Courtyard raised money to hold a night banquet for him, inviting many guests including Daiyu, Baochai, Xiangyun, etc. This was also the busiest night in Yihong Courtyard.

If the scene events are too complicated, it will affect the battle and the noise will steal the show, so the scene events can only be set as the background, and not too many scene characters can appear. Xie Mingzhe decided to draw several of Jia Baoyu's maids into the scene to serve as NPCs.

At the beginning of the game, NPCs such as Raiders and Qingwen prepare a dinner. When the game reaches a certain stage, the night banquet begins, the whole place is brightly lit, and laughter and joy are endless. All cards are affected by the joyful atmosphere of the night banquet, and their attack, attack speed, and critical strike are comprehensively improved. In other words, as soon as the night banquet begins, both sides will enter a fierce firepower confrontation, and the game will be more exciting.

Xie Mingzhe shared his ideas with everyone, and his teammates expressed their approval.

Yu Ke sighed, "There are so many scene cards! Qin Xuan will be very busy next. Can he draw them?"

Qin Xuan said calmly: "I have seen the draft. It is not difficult to draw a single courtyard. The most difficult part is actually what Azhe said about the integration of the Grand View Garden. How to connect all the courtyards is a big project."

Xie Mingzhe nodded and said, "Yes, I will help you with the merging work. I will then make a floor plan of the Grand View Garden, place each courtyard in a fixed position, draw some stone paths, green plants, corridors and the like in the middle to connect the courtyards together."

"What about the weather and light?" Qin Xuan asked, "It will rain in Qiu Shuang Zhai, and Yi Hong Yuan is a night scene. Is it daytime everywhere else?"

"Let's design the weather and light and dark independently for each small scene." Xie Mingzhe thought for a moment and said, "At the beginning of Xiaoxiang Pavilion, it should be daytime. As long as one side loses four cards, the event of Daiyu's death from tears is triggered, and it becomes night. Yihong Courtyard is the opposite. It starts at dusk, and after the night banquet is ready, it becomes a brightly lit night... Isn't this too complicated?"

"Fortunately, the scene remains unchanged, it's not difficult to just change the light and dark." Qin Xuan said calmly.

"…If you think you can do it, it's fine!" Xie Mingzhe currently doesn't know how to do 3D conversion of map scenes, and Qin Xuan is really good at this. In fact, the "Vampire Castle" he designed also has light conversion, and the map will be completely dark when a flock of crows flies over. With such a powerful teammate, Xie Mingzhe's heart was immediately relieved. He smiled and patted Qin Xuan on the shoulder and said, "I will help you these few days and do some detailed settings. Let's make this series of scene cards as soon as possible."

Qin Xuan nodded decisively: "Okay."

After everyone agreed on the design of the map, Chen Qianlin reorganized the data again. For each map, the specific time period, the event or scene effect that triggered it. With the presence of the master, all the things that confused Xie Mingzhe became particularly clear.

Qin Xuan wrote dozens of pages of notes alone, which shows the complexity of the Grand View Garden series of maps.

Next, it depends on whether Qin Xuan has the ability to fully present Xie Mingzhe's vision of a huge, complex, detailed and luxurious - the Grand View Garden of the Red Mansions!