Chapter 178 Why do all the protagonists have a younger sister?
On the eighth day of the first lunar month, Chen Ba passed away.
He stayed in bed in his hometown for half a month and originally wanted to stay there for a few more days, until after the Lantern Festival, before leaving. But Old Chen said that there was no rice at home and he couldn't afford to support an idle person.
All right!
Old Chen's words were full of disgust, which made Chen Ba feel very disappointed. He could only pick up various bacon and sausages and drive away under Old Chen's gaze that said "get out of here".
I drove at high speed for more than ten hours.
When Chen Ba returned to Jiangning, he was so exhausted that he lay in bed and didn't want to move at all.
"Brother Ba, do you want a wife or not?"
"oh?!"
Upon hearing this, Chen Ba quickly got up from the bed and asked happily, "Where is it? Bring it here for me to see!"
“Here it is!”
Xiao Lu held up the 60 series graphics card in his hand and said proudly, "This is the new wife that Lao Huang just sent you. She's a virgin girl who hasn't been released yet!"
Chen Ba: “…”
He stared at the graphics card in Xiao Lu's hand, then looked at the proud Xiao Lu, with veins bulging on his forehead.
This is not the wife he wants!
Damn Xiao Lu, he actually dared to tease him with a broken graphics card, making him happy for nothing. It seems that the salary is still too high.
"Take it away quickly, don't try to fool me with these things, I don't like any graphics card girl!"
After waving his hands to indicate that he was not very interested in this thing, Chen Ba turned around and asked, "What was the result of the investigation I asked you to do?"
"Well..."
Seeing that Brother Ba was extremely cold towards his new wife, Xiao Lu quickly put it away, preparing to keep it for himself to prevent it from being snatched away by others.
After hearing Brother Ba's question, he sorted out his thoughts and then introduced: "There are not many teams in China that have this technical strength and have participated in the production of 3A games. I have contacted them all."
"What do they say?"
"The attitude is good. He also said that if we need anything, just let us know and we can help you by paying money."
At this point, Xiao Lu scratched his head and added: "It was that motion capture team that was indifferent to our acquisition. They only accepted cooperation but not acquisition."
So disrespectful?
Chen Ba was shocked. He didn't expect that there was still a team these days that couldn't be bought even with money.
No...why?
Apart from taking some animation, special effects and game orders, this motion capture team doesn't get much work on a regular basis. At most, they can just make ends meet. Why don't they want to be acquired by Tianba?
"The price is relatively high!"
Xiao Lu explained: "Teams like these are very ambitious. If our offer doesn't satisfy them, then naturally the deal won't work out."
"Then forget it..."
When Chen Ba heard that they could not agree on the price, he guessed that the other party was asking for an extremely high price.
Tianba Studio is not short of money, but it is impossible for them to spend money recklessly. Anyone who wants to be a sucker can do so, but Chen Ba will never be the sucker.
If you can’t buy a plug-and-play motion capture team, then just build one yourself. It’s all about money, so it’s not a big deal! “As for buying equipment, hiring employees, and setting up a motion capture studio, let Brother Dong contact a headhunter to help find the right people.”
Chen Ba said confidently: "If Tianba Studio wants to become bigger and stronger, we must have our own motion capture team."
Motion capture, the full name is motion capture.
This is a technology with a wide range of applications. It is not only used in film and television production and game development, but is also widely used in many fields such as military, entertainment, sports, medical applications, computer vision, and robotics.
Let’s not talk about the role of this technology in other fields. Just talking about the gaming industry, it can be summarized in one sentence:
The foundation of 3D games! For ordinary 2D games, you don’t need to care about motion capture technology, but when it comes to 3D games, motion capture must be used.
Because this technology is so important for improving and enhancing 3D games.
Let me put it this way.
99% of 3A games at home and abroad basically use motion capture technology. In fact, the better the 3A masterpiece, the higher the precision of the motion capture and the crisper and sharper the movements.
If Chen Ba wants to do 3A, motion capture is an indispensable part.
In fact, when developing "Star Emperor", he had thought about setting up a dedicated motion capture team for Tianba Studio.
only……
This thing is not cheap, and compared to the cost of setting up a team, the subsequent maintenance cost is the most troublesome.
It is easy to form a team, but the biggest challenge is how to support the team.
There are no fixed projects, no special scenarios required. Is it possible to form this team just for fun?
Now, the time is ripe.
Tianba Studio has already met all the conditions for developing 3A games. In this case, it is necessary to form a motion capture team.
There is no need to worry about not being able to support it. With fixed projects and sufficient funds, supporting a motion capture team is a piece of cake.
The key is to find the right person.
Little-known fact: there are actually quite a few technical experts in this field in China, but they are all in the film and television industry. After all, many Hollywood movie special effects are outsourced to Chinese companies.
This is a bit of a headache.
He is doing well in the field of film and television special effects, but you poached him to work on games. Let’s not talk about whether he is willing or not. How can you guarantee him a bright future? When Chen Ba said this, he himself didn’t believe it.
Working in film and television special effects is definitely a stable job. As long as people still have entertainment needs and as long as people still watch movies, they will not be afraid of not having enough food to eat.
If you engage in game development, your future is really uncertain.
Who doesn't know about domestic games, especially domestic stand-alone games? What if you come to make stand-alone games, especially AAA games, which are the most risky, and you get laid off after completing this order? "Try your best to negotiate."
Chen Ba sighed and said, "Talking about future prospects and ideals is nonsense. We just give money, real money."
Giving money is the most practical thing.
How can there be so many idealists? Everyone comes out to make a living, so just talk about salary and benefits. Talking about ideals and the future is useless except for making people laugh.
In this regard, Tianba Studio is still very confident.
After all, they have "Shen'en Animation" as their ATM, so it is impossible for them to go bankrupt in a short period of time. If they pay enough money, they will not have to worry about not being able to recruit people.
"What about the game engine?"
After talking about the arrangements for the formation of the motion capture team, Xiao Lu immediately asked, "Brother Ba, didn't you say that you wanted to build a special Tianba engine?"
"It's almost time, don't rush me!"
Chen Ba was speechless.
A game engine is not a piece of cabbage, how can you just make it?
Although he can cheat, the performance of Tiehanhan's system is really worrying. It takes at least two months to develop a game engine.
This is already exaggerated! In just two months, a brand new game engine was created from scratch, which is a miracle in the game industry.
Chen Ba took a look.
The system's progress bar has reached 51%. It is estimated that in about 20 days, Tianba Studio will have a brand new game engine.
So looking forward to it!
The physical calculation engine developed independently is so realistic and powerful, so what will this all-round game engine specially designed for 3A be like? Can it catch up with Dream Building 6?
…
Tianba Studio was secretly developing a game engine and did not deliberately hide the news from others.
The main reason is that Chen Ba didn't want to hide it.
Release the news in advance, whether true or false, real or fake, to give everyone a heads-up in advance, so that an unprecedented game engine will not pop up and leave the entire industry confused.
Players are full of expectations about this mysterious Tianba engine.
No one dared to imagine that the engine could reach the level of well-known game engines such as the Dream Engine and the Origin Engine, nor did they think that the first-generation engine developed by Tianba Studio could be comparable to such mature engines.
After all, you are just starting out, how can you compare with others whose engines have been updated and iterated for several versions?
But based on the powerful and realistic physics engine of the game "Need for Speed", everyone also has high expectations for this unknown Tianba engine.
The same is true for Chen Ba.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
But he knows more, so he thinks differently from ordinary players. The physics engine used in "Need for Speed" is specially built for racing games and has little to do with this game engine.
The main function of this game engine is to cover most of the games developed by Tianba Studio in the future, and is not limited to racing themes.
In other words.
The physics engine of "Need for Speed" is very good, but it is not the core of the Tianba engine. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a small plug-in.
The core element that Chen Ba added to the Tianba engine is actually AI artificial intelligence!
That’s right!
This is completely different from the traditional game engine. It can even be understood that this is a substitute that Chen Ba specially tinkered with to make up for the shortcomings of Tianba Studio in art.
In addition to image rendering and physical simulation, Tianba Engine also includes the most popular AI drawing and AI animation functions.
“A game engine that changes the times.”
This is the only comment Chen Ba gave about this engine.
After nearly a month of hard work, he finally got the finished product. After multiple rounds of testing, he finally understood why everyone hated the hack.
Cheating is really shameless!
While others are still struggling to write code, Tianba Studio has already begun exploiting AI and using it to develop games.
“That’s amazing!”
Yang Dong also tried the new engine. Although he only tried it briefly, he could see that this Tianba engine was indeed more powerful than he had imagined.
The most intuitive experience is that this engine can automatically generate all kinds of art resources needed for the game without the need for "alchemy".
"Alchemy" is a technical term.
It means letting AI learn from a certain painter and a certain painting style, so that it can draw various works in that style. This training process is also called alchemy and picture feeding.
The new engine doesn't have to be so troublesome.
If you use this engine to develop a game, you only need to get started, provide some early game art resources, and set a basic framework and art tone for AI.
The rest can just be left alone.
This is very convenient and saves time and manpower. Tianba Studio does not need to hire too many full-time art designers.
One or two people are more than enough.
These one or two full-time art designers are responsible for determining the game's art tone and style, and the rest can be left to AI to automatically generate.
"To draw map resources, you only need to draw a village, and the AI can generate map art resources for the entire continent..."
At this point, Yang Dong smiled and said: "This is really convenient, and this AI not only draws, but also automatically generates the corresponding code."
This is the most amazing thing.
There's nothing wrong with just being able to draw pictures, but after drawing them, turning the content of the pictures into game content is a bit outrageous.
For example, Yang Dong let AI draw a church building in the Tianba engine.
This building is not only an art resource picture, but also a part of the game project. It can be interacted with, such as opening the door to visit, or NPCs coming to the church to pray, etc.
"But then again, AI is still AI. When making a game, you can't rely too much on these things. It's unrealistic to completely replace human labor."
"nonsense!"
Of course Chen Ba knew that this was unrealistic.
No matter how powerful the Tianba engine is, it is just a game engine. It is impossible to do what Yang Dong said, to automatically generate a game by inputting specific commands.
At present, these functions of Tianba Engine only play an auxiliary role. Whether they are useful or not depends on how developers use it.
Now that we have the engine, we have the motion capture team in place.
Chen Ba immediately decided to use this new Tianba engine to create a super cool open world role-playing game with a modern city as the background.
He has already thought of a name.
"Global Evolution"! This is a game about the "revival of spiritual energy", the evolution of all things, the fall of mankind from the altar, and the re-taking of the throne of the head of all races under the leadership of the protagonist.
In 2045 AD, the world changed suddenly.
Various extreme thunderstorms occurred all over the world, with lightning, thunder, and heavy rain, creating a scene that looked like the end of the world.
This rain is not simple...
"Those that have been caught in the rain have evolved?" Xiao Lu suddenly had an idea.
“That’s right!”
Chen Ba glanced at Xiao Lu and guessed that this kid usually read a lot of online novels, so he nodded and said: "This rain lasted for a whole month, and all the animals and plants that were exposed to the rain have undergone strange changes."
Humanity has fallen from grace.
Ferocious beasts rose up, human firearms became completely ineffective, and even plants became extremely terrifying. Humans were so weak that they could only abandon large tracts of territory and retreat to one base after another.
The story originates in Jiangning Base City.
The protagonist of the game, Chen Yun, lost his parents in the first beast tide attack after the great changes in the world, and struggled to survive with his sister Chen Jia.
"Why do protagonists like this have a sister?"
Xiao Lu really wants to complain, who started this? All subsequent works, whether games, animations or novels, have a sister.
"How would I know? Everyone has a sister anyway, so let's have a sister too..."
Chen Ba thought it was not important.
Whether it's a younger sister or a younger brother, they are there to enrich the male protagonist's personality. In the final analysis, they are just tools, so there is no need to care too much about them.
Besides.
The other protagonists all lost their parents, and they start out with a sister and a house. It's not easy for Tianba Studio to make any special arrangements, so since everyone has a sister, why don't they have one too!
Just don't be a burden...
(End of this chapter)