Chapter 44 Lao Huang, my good buddy!
The DreamBuilding 5 engine is a new thing.
Everyone is familiar with the fourth-generation engine, but many game manufacturers are currently waiting and watching the new fifth-generation DreamBuilding Engine.
A groundbreaking gaming performance?
The promotional slogan is quite intimidating, but mainstream game manufacturers all feel that before the release of the next-generation game console in the true sense, the slogan of the DreamBuilding 5 engine can only be a slogan.
There is no need to rush for large 3A companies to delve into console platforms. It will be plenty of time to wait for the release of new next-generation consoles and then develop an exclusive game.
And those small factories that do not produce 3A products are even less anxious.
They have no use for the new features promoted in Dream Building 5, and the mature Dream Building 4 platform can already meet their various needs.
As a result, a strange scene appeared in the gaming industry.
The first game developer to officially announce the use of the DreamBuilding 5 engine to develop a new game was actually a small studio that had never been heard of before.
Take a look at their masterpieces...
Uh! What kind of plane are you working on? Do you need the engine of the Dreamliner 5? I think the Dreamliner 3 is enough!
No one took the official announcement of "Star Emperor" seriously, because in their opinion, Tianba Studio's first use of the Dream Building 5 engine was no different from an overkill.
If you really want to see the power of the Dream Building 5 engine, you have to watch 3A masterpieces.
certainly!
Not everyone thinks that Tianba Studio is unable to make good use of the Dream Building 5 engine and is just trying to create hype.
NVIDIA, the world's largest graphics card manufacturer, which has been working hard to popularize its "gaming graphics" technology, noticed Tianba.
To be precise, they hope that the first game developed using the DreamBuilding 5 engine will support their ray tracing graphics technology and be specially optimized for their graphics cards.
As for whether the game is fun?
Not important! Nvidia soon approached Chen Ba with a box of the latest 30 series graphics cards and put forward their requirements.
"Ah?"
Chen Ba, who received a box of graphics card sponsorship for no apparent reason, was a little confused: "Let's use the RTX ray tracing and AI technology platform to fully demonstrate the advantages of this platform?"
When did Huang become so kind? The graphics cards he sent are in short supply, and you can’t even buy them on the market. And what Huang sent is definitely not a mining card.
"Many players are paying attention to the DreamBuilding 5 engine. The new engine has made great progress in game graphics."
Yang Dong said thoughtfully: "As one of the first games developed with the DreamBuilding 5 engine, it is normal for NVIDIA to come and take advantage of the popularity of Star Emperor."
To put it bluntly.
It doesn’t matter whether the game is a piece of shit or not. What matters is that they want to use the game "Star Emperor" to promote their game graphics technology.
This is so common!
Game graphics technology requires the help of game developers to promote it, which is why Huang likes to sponsor new games.
In addition, there is a hidden reason, which is to make special optimizations for N cards to consolidate the existing market share of the game.
"Isn't this a coincidence?"
Xiao Lu laughed and said, "Our new game focuses on first-hand graphics. Even if Lao Huang doesn't sponsor it, we have to optimize it for him."
"really!"
Chen Ba nodded.
Lao Huang still thinks too highly of Tianba Studio.
Even if he doesn't send this batch of graphics cards, Tianba Studio will still optimize the N cards. After all, the market share of N cards is too high.
Steam platform once conducted a statistical survey to find out what computer configurations players are using to play games.
The results were surprising.
The graphics card with the highest share is actually the 1060 series released many years ago, and it is far ahead of the second place. The usage rate of N cards by players also far exceeds that of A cards.
In other words.
Nowadays, PC games are basically dominated by N cards. There are only a few games where the A card experience is better than the N card.
If Tianba Studio wants to make a living on the PC side, it has to optimize the N card even if it is reluctant, otherwise the players will complain.
However, I can get a box of graphics cards from Huang for free, as well as the right to use a large amount of game graphics and AI technology, so it's still quite a profit.
Lao Huang, good buddy!
Chen Ba, who has always been loyal, has to do things for Lao Huang since he accepted the graphics card from him, otherwise he would feel guilty using the graphics card.
Lao Huang’s requirements are also simple.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
It's nothing more than a technical demonstration during the promotion of the game "Star Emperor", especially ray tracing and image quality, which must be shown off! It's a commercial blow- by-blow! You praise my game, I praise your technology, we look at each other and smile, calling you and Cao the only heroes in the world, leaving the players looking at each other in bewilderment.
It just so happened that Tianba Studio had originally planned to make a preview video of the game "Star Emperor" before the Spring Festival holiday.
Huang arrived just in time! The video is actually a CG animation, not a real machine demonstration.
The game currently only has a big framework and the models of a few characters. It is definitely unrealistic to do a real-machine demonstration. Just use CG to arouse curiosity.
The CG was produced by an outsourced company.
The content is very simple, mainly introducing the type of game, the background of the game, and highlighting the main selling points of the game.
What is the selling point? Of course, it is the cool battle scenes created by the Dream Building 5 engine, RTX platform technology, and oriental fantasy fairy art design.
Because the game has just started, there is not much to show, so the battle scene that appears in the CG only lasts about 10 seconds.
In these ten seconds, there is only one move! The protagonist, Star Emperor, stood in the depths of the universe with his back to all living beings, pointed forward with one finger, and infinite starlight gathered in an instant, and wherever his fingertips touched, the stars were annihilated...
This is a CG special effect, not a real game scene.
However, the Star Emperor does have such a skill, and in theory, the special effect of this skill is to gather starlight at the fingertips, so this CG is not fictional.
“Why is it facing away from all living beings?”
"Are you stupid? We haven't pinched the Star Emperor's face yet. If we don't turn our backs to all living beings, won't we be exposed?"
Reaching out and knocking on Xiao Lu's wooden head, Chen Ba said speechlessly: "I guess you still want to ask, where are the enemies of the Star Emperor?"
Forget it! The protagonist, Star Emperor, has not even had his face sculpted properly, so it is even more impossible for other characters to "show their faces".
Just turn your back to everyone.
As long as you don't turn around, who would have known that the great emperor had no eyes, mouth or nose? The prototype of the game is like this.
After I finish sculpting the character's face and perfecting the modeling, I can almost make a live demonstration video, and then each character will show their face.
As for early access trials?
Facing the WeChat question from his good friend Wang Kun, Chen Ba thought about it and gave a very vague time.
"The earliest will be summer, the latest is uncertain, maybe autumn or next year..."
(End of this chapter)