Chapter 141 Real Physics Engine

Chapter 141 Real Physics Engine

Emperor Dermatitis is the anchor of "Star Emperor", and most of his fans are loyal players of this game.

Therefore, most of the questions from the audience in the live broadcast room revolved around the game "Star Emperor".

As everyone knows.

Brother Ba is an otaku. Apart from chatting in forums and communities, it is difficult to meet him in person offline.

It's rare to be encountered by an anchor and a real person is arrested offline, so why not give him a hard whip?

"Brother Ba, someone asked in the live broadcast room, when will you cook new shit?"

Chen Ba: "..."

As soon as this question came out, Xiao Lu, who was sitting aside, burst out laughing.

Who are these people?

What is new poop? If you want to know about the new game, just ask directly. Did you ask such disgusting questions on purpose?

"No more poop."

Chen Ba took a long breath to regain his composure and said slowly: "I will bet my career on the next new game, it will not be shit."

"good!"

When Xiao Lu and Emperor Pi Yan heard this, they applauded in a dignified manner.

The audience in the live broadcast room is not so easy to fool. After hearing Brother Ba's words, they have already begun to help Brother Ba find a new entrepreneurial direction.

Just kidding?

It would be good if one of the ten sentences that Brother Ba said is true. Especially when he guarantees that the game is foolproof, there is no need to think about it, he must be bragging.

It’s an old tradition to talk loudly during the development stage, to be silent in early access, and to talk nonsense about the official release.

"Brother Naha, can you tell me what the theme of the new game is? Will Tianba Studio develop an Eastern fairy-type game similar to "Star Emperor"?"

"The new game is a racing game."

"Oriental Immortal? It depends on the situation!"

Chen Ba shook his head and said: "I also like Eastern Xianxia very much. After all, the previous works such as fairy swords and ancient swords have indeed had a great influence on me."

"But you also know that this subject matter is difficult to do, and it is difficult to do well."

Immortal swords and ancient swords are the memories of a generation.

Many people have a fairy dream in their hearts. It is also Chen Ba's dream to make a successful fairy game.

But this is really hard to do...

"Star Emperor" is a deviant approach. Although it is an Eastern fairy tale, the subject matter has little influence on it. What matters is the game graphics and special effects.

To put it another way, "Star Emperor" is really not as pure as Sword and Ancient Sword. At least it doesn't have so many fairy elements. The character just has a fairy name, and the core is still the same as the King of Fighters fighting game.

A pure Xianxia game may have to be role-playing to have that flavor.

"What about the picture?"

Without waiting for the audience in the live broadcast room to ask questions, Emperor Piyan asked: "Even if you don't consider the theme of fairy tales, are there any games like "Star Emperor" that are heavy on special effects?"

"There will be, but not now."

Chen Ba gave an answer that no one expected, that is, the average configuration of players is a bit too low.

"Star Emperor" is the first game developed using the Dream 5 engine, and other Dream 5 games have since been released.

But these games all have a common problem, that is, the configuration threshold is too high. Without good computer configuration, it is difficult for this kind of game to run smoothly.

Therefore, since "Star Emperor", Chen Ba has never considered developing another game with the same top-notch graphics and special effects.

There's no need to know, right?

For this kind of game, one "Star Emperor" is enough. No matter how many more games are developed, they can only satisfy the experience of a few people, and most players will not be able to experience it.

"'Star Emperor' is like a high-end sports car owned by a car manufacturer. It is very powerful and top-notch, but the threshold is too high and it is destined to be only a carnival for a few people."

"Do you know what are the main sales models of giants in the automobile industry such as Volkswagen, Toyota and General Motors?"

When Chen Ba said this, the audience in the live broadcast room and Emperor Dermatitis both understood.

For a game like this that requires too much configuration, it’s not that we don’t want to develop it, but that the market is too small. Tianba Studio still focuses on mainstream player configurations and develops some "family car" and "grocery cart" games.

This is determined by market demand. It’s not just what game Brother Ba says he wants to develop.

If he were to be so willful and insistent, Tianba Studio might be close to bankruptcy.

"Well, that's a shame."

"What's a pity?"

Chen Ba said angrily: "I've already hinted like this, but you still haven't understood what I mean? You have to say it clearly, right?"

"Huh? What did you imply?"

"Brother Ba means..."

As the best substitute, Xiao Lu decisively spoke his mind for Brother Ba: "Want to play a game with huge graphics and special effects? Yes! But can you go to Fairyland Digital to upgrade your computer configuration first? Otherwise, Ba It’s hard for me to do things!”

Emperor Dermatitis: "..."

As expected of Brother Ba!

It's a pity that he still puts this aside. He thinks the reason why Brother Ba doesn't make "Star Emperor 2" is that the market is too small.

I never expected that Brother Ba’s subtext was actually: Want to play “Star Emperor 2” with better graphics? Go to Xianyu Digital to consume!

If you don’t consume and you don’t upgrade the configuration, where will Brother Ba get the motivation to make a sequel?

"The one who knows me is Xiao Lu!"

After giving Xiao Lu a thumbs up, Chen Ba waved his hand and said, "Okay, let's answer one last question. We have to go back to the studio."

"Okay, okay!"

Brother Ba said that the last question was the last question. Emperor Piyan, who knew that the opportunity was rare, did not watch the barrage this time, but asked his most curious question.

"Brother Ba, the new game is about racing. What is it like? Can you expand on it?"

"Well……"

Chen Ba almost said the words "What's so interesting about PPT?"

But when he saw Emperor Dermatitis's expectant eyes and the large number of viewers in the live broadcast room, he was really embarrassed to tell the truth.

Forget it, let’s break the news.

Seeing that the other party treated him and Xiao Lu to two bowls of pig's trotter rice, Chen Ba felt that he should return the favor and reveal something that had not been made public yet.

"The new game will be an online racing game. Players will drive vehicles with other players in the online mode, travel through the streets and alleys of Jiangning City, and experience the excitement of soaring adrenaline..."

"What I can reveal is that the new game will be different from other similar games, and that is the choice of racing cars. It may not have the various sports cars or luxury cars that everyone is looking forward to."

Chen Ba also knew that many people who play racing games may be used to driving good cars, so he took precautions in advance and said: "In our game, most of the models entered are cheap family cars."

"Of course, just because there are no luxury cars and sports cars, it doesn't mean that our game has very few car models to choose from."

"On the contrary, although some sports cars and luxury cars are missing, we have included almost all household models you can buy on the market, whether they are electric cars or gasoline cars, SUVs or cars, and even the Wuling series of sacred cars..."

Wow!

Hearing this, Emperor Piyan was a little excited and said: "Does it really include all cars? Is it all cars that can be bought on the market?"

"certainly!"

"We will do our best to include car models that everyone is familiar with. Don't be disappointed if some unpopular cars are not included. Feedback will be given to us when the time comes and we will solve it."

The diversification of car models has always been the focus of Chen Ba, and he will also work hard to let everyone play the models they are familiar with in the game.

Fortunately, Brother Dong did a great job in this regard.

Yang Dong collected information on models on sale from domestic and foreign mainstream car brands, and after eliminating more than 500,000 car models, he reached cooperation with the brands for the rest.

The price is very affordable.

In fact, it is not expensive in the first place, after all, it is equivalent to free advertising space. Other car manufacturers are not fools. If someone is willing to add their own car model to the game, why wouldn't they be happy?

Although the player's car purchasing potential is not very high, the score is still there.

For example, on the Steam platform, do these people who like to play stand-alone games really have no potential to purchase cars? joke! This group of young people is exactly the main group of people buying cars!

BBA has gone to sponsor League of Legends events. Doesn’t their marketing department not know the consumption potential of gamers?

If you are willing to sponsor, you must have analyzed it in advance and found it profitable before sponsoring.

Therefore, car manufacturers do not reject this type of racing game. After all, everyone wants to promote it. What a good publicity opportunity, why not accept cooperation?

As long as you don't deliberately smear or slander a certain brand's models, it actually doesn't matter.

Of course Chen Ba would not discredit it.

"Speed" has a numerical system that determines the actual performance of each vehicle based on its power configuration.

This is all fair.

There is no such thing as optimizing a certain car brand's models to make their cars run faster than others...

"This is quite common in the industry."

Yang Dong gave an example of a well-known sports car brand that likes to engage in shady deals with game developers. His sports cars are like "gods" in the game, and players love to drive them.

It's a real car...

It can only be said that games cannot represent reality! The performance in other people's games and the performance on the track in reality are completely different.

"It's just self-deception."

Chen Ba feels that this kind of shady approach in the game to make a certain car perform better than similar cars, or even kill similar cars, is really a bit abstract.

So what if you win the game?

If you have the ability to run two laps in real life, would you dare to get off the track? How come you can play so well and yet have diarrhea as soon as you hit the track?

Moreover, it is a bit low-key for car manufacturers to use this method.

It's enough for dealers to exaggerate and publicize, but if car manufacturers themselves end up engaging in such unrealistic and false publicity, it can only be said that marketing is more important than anything else.

"Ignore them, we just do our thing."

Chen Ba was too lazy to think about the chaos in the car industry. This was a famous cesspool on the Internet, smellier than the mobile phone industry, and he didn't want to be implicated in the bad luck.

"How is the game engine?"

"great!"

Speaking of the game engine, Yang Dong was shocked and said: "Brother Ba, where did you get the physics engine?"

This is too awesome!

As a game practitioner, Yang Dong also knows that the key to determining the success or failure of a racing game lies in its "physics engine."

A good physics engine can make a racing game more exciting.

And a physics engine that is so bad that it oozes pus, regardless of whether the game is fun or not, the endless game bugs alone are enough to cause a headache.

He thought that Brother Ba was going to buy a ready-made racing physics engine.

Unexpectedly, Brother Ba was already prepared.

Unknowingly, he took out a real physics engine specially used in racing games. It is simply extremely powerful!

"As long as it works."

Chen Ba curled his lips and said, "Don't worry about where this physics engine comes from. Just tell me, did you find any problems during use?"

"No!"

Yang Dong admired it very much and said: "It's amazing. I think it would be a waste to use such a great physics engine to make a game."

no problem?

Chen Ba frowned, feeling that there was a lot of mystery in this matter.

This physics engine is a new auxiliary function unlocked after the Tiehanhan system upgrade. It can simulate physical phenomena and effects to the maximum extent, and calculate motion trajectories and collision reactions.

He tried it too.

The products produced by the system are indeed excellent!

In his opinion, the power of this engine is two decades ahead of the industry. Yang Dong is right, it is really a waste to use this thing to develop games.

But the problem is that this can only be used to develop games! The Tiehanhan system won't let him use it for other purposes...

Moreover, based on Chen Ba's understanding of his golden finger, this engine probably has some deep-hidden flaws that have not yet been discovered.

But it’s easy to use.

Even if the engine is really faulty, the basic physics simulation is still very good, and it is absolutely perfect for developing racing games.

"Good guy..."

Yang Dong explained vividly: "I used this physics engine to simulate the scene of a car hitting the guardrail. The effect was a perfect reproduction of the car accident scene."

If the collision is done well, the game will not be bad.

The core of this type of racing game is how powerful the physics engine is. The more powerful the physics engine can simulate, the better the game will be.

Moreover, the powerful physics engine can simulate effects beyond the collision, rolling, and rebound phenomena that everyone roughly understands.

It can also simulate more complex mechanical devices such as cylinders, valves, drive shafts and hinges.

what does that mean?

This means that the reason why the racing cars in the game can run is not that the game itself has this mechanism, but the physical phenomenon simulated by the physics engine based on the combination of spare parts.

Don’t quite understand?

To put it in a simple and crude way, in other games, no matter how serious the collision is, the car will still be driven as it should, and its performance will not be affected at all.

But in the game "Speed", the car collides with other objects, which may damage the internal parts, affect the performance of the car, and even cause it to lie on the spot.

"We have the most realistic physics engine to restore the most realistic car accident scene!"

Yang Dong said with a smile: "The era of brainless banging is over. If you are still playing our game without brains, then just wait to be blacklisted by the insurance company."

"There is actually an insurance company?"

Xiao Lu was greatly surprised. This was a new setting that he had never heard of.

"Of course there are insurance companies!"

Chen Ba explained: "Otherwise with this kind of physics engine, if the player crashes too seriously and has no money in his pocket, wouldn't it be impossible to repair it?"

It is said to be an insurance company, but in fact it is a different form of repairing cars for free to players.

Otherwise, due to the savagery of the players, they may suddenly go bankrupt and not be able to repair the car while driving it.

certainly!

Insurance companies also have claims limits. If players don't know how to restrain themselves and continue to be reckless, the premiums will increase in the second year.

If the premium increases for three consecutive years, insurance will be refused in the third year and you will not be able to buy insurance at all.

What?

You ask which insurance company this is with such a bad attitude? You actually choose customers?

In this regard, Chen Ba just wants to say, our Tianba insurance is like this. If you don’t agree, go buy insurance from other companies!