Chapter 178 Why does the protagonist have a sister?

Chapter 178 Why does the protagonist have a sister?

On the eighth day of the first lunar month, Chen Ba left.

He had been lying in his hometown for half a month. He originally wanted to stay there for a few more days and leave after the Lantern Festival, but Lao Chen said that there was no rice at home and he could not afford to feed idle people.

All right!

The various disgusts in and out of Old Chen's words made Chen Ba's heart feel cold. He could only carry various bacon sausages and drive away under the gaze of Old Chen's "get out of here" eyes.

I ran at high speed for more than ten hours.

By the time Chen Ba returned to Jiangning, he was already half dead from exhaustion and lay on the bed without wanting to move.

"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? Come and have a look!"

"Here it is!"

Xiao Lu held up the 60 series graphics card in his hand and said with a showy face: "Lao Huang just sent you a new wife, a yellow flower girl who hasn't been released yet!"

Chen Ba: "..."

He stared at the graphics card in Xiao Lu's hand, and then glanced at Xiao Lu who was full of pride, with veins popping up on his forehead.

This is not the wife he wants!

Damn Xiao Lu, he actually dared to tease him with a broken graphics card, which made him happy for nothing. It seemed that the salary was still too high.

"Take it away quickly and stop fooling me with these things. I don't like the graphics girl!"

After waving his hand to indicate that he was not very interested in this thing, Chen Ba turned around and asked: "What happened to the investigation I asked you to investigate?"

"Well..."

Seeing that Brother Ba was extremely cold towards his new wife, Xiao Lu quickly put it away and planned to keep it for himself to avoid being taken away by others soon.

After hearing Brother Ba's inquiry, he organized his thoughts and then introduced: "There are not many teams in China that have this technical strength and have participated in 3A game production. I have contacted them all."

"What did they say?"

"The attitude is pretty good. He also said that if you need anything, just ask and you can help us by giving us money."

At this point, Xiao Lu scratched his head and added: "That same motion capture team is indifferent to our acquisition and only accepts cooperation and not acquisition."

So disrespectful?

Chen Ba was shocked. He didn't expect that these days there would be a team that money couldn't buy.

No... why?

Apart from taking some orders for animation, special effects and games, this team that engages in motion capture usually doesn't get much work. At most, it can only maintain food and clothing. Why doesn't it want to be acquired by Tianba?

“The asking price is relatively high!”

Xiao Lu explained: "This kind of team has relatively high ambitions. If we cannot satisfy them with the price we offer, we will naturally not be able to negotiate."

"forget about it……"

Upon hearing that the price could not be negotiated, Chen Ba guessed that the other party was asking for an extremely high price.

Tianba Studio is not short of money, but it is impossible to spend money recklessly. Whoever wants to be taken advantage of can be someone who wants to be taken advantage of. Chen Ba cannot be taken advantage of anyway.

If you can’t buy a plug-and-play motion capture team, then you can build one yourself. It also costs money, what a big deal!

"In terms of buying equipment, recruiting employees, and setting up the fishing shed, I asked Brother Dong to contact the headhunter to help find suitable candidates."

Chen Bayan said firmly: "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 that has a wide range of applications, not only in film and television production and game development, but also 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. Let’s just talk about the game industry. It can be summarized in one sentence:

The foundation of 3D gaming!

Ordinary 2D games don’t care about motion capture technology, but when it comes to 3D, motion capture must be used.

Because this technology is so important for the improvement and blessing of 3D games.

Put it this way.

99% of 3A games at home and abroad basically use motion capture technology. Even the more outstanding 3A masterpieces, the higher the precision of motion capture and the crisper and sharper the movements.

If Chen Ba wants to be a 3A player, motion capture is an indispensable part.

In fact, when "Star Emperor" was being developed, he had thought about setting up a dedicated motion capture team for Tianba Studio.

only……

This thing is not cheap, and compared with the cost of setting up a team, the subsequent maintenance costs are the biggest headache.

Forming a team is easy, but how to feed the team is the biggest problem.

There are no fixed projects and no particularly required scenarios. Is it just a matter of fun to form this team?

Now, the time is ripe.

Tianba Studio has met all the conditions for developing AAA 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. There are fixed projects and sufficient funds. Supporting a motion capture team is just a piece of cake.

The key is to find the right person.

Trivia: There are actually quite a few technical masters in this field in China, but they are all in the film and television field. After all, many Hollywood movie special effects are outsourced to Chinese companies.

This gives me a headache.

If you are developing well in the field of film and television special effects, if you recruit someone to make a game, let alone whether they are willing or not, how can you guarantee a bright future for them?

Chen Ba himself didn't believe it when he said this.

Working in film and television special effects is definitely a guaranteed job. As long as people still have entertainment needs and as long as people watch movies, they won't be afraid of not being able to afford a living.

Engaging in game development is really precarious.

Who doesn’t know what’s going on with domestic games, especially domestic stand-alone games? Running a single-player game is still the riskiest AAA game. What if you are laid off after completing this order?

"Try to talk."

Chen Ba sighed and said: "Talk about future prospects and ideals and ambitions are all nonsense. We only give money, real money."

Giving money is the most practical thing.

How can there be so many idealists?

Everyone is here to make a living, so just talk about salary and benefits directly. Talking about ideals and the future is of no use except making people laugh.

In this regard, Tianba Studio is still very confident.

After all, they have the cash machine of "God's Grace Animation", and it is impossible for them to go bankrupt in a short time. If they give them enough money, they won't have to worry about finding people.

"What about the game engine?"

After talking about the relevant arrangements for the formation of the motion capture team, Xiao Lu immediately asked: "Brother Ba, didn't you say that you want to build a Tianba engine?"

"It's almost here, don't rush it!"

Chen Ba was speechless.

A game engine is not a big deal, so how can you just say it is ready?

Although he could cheat, the performance of Tiehanhan's system was really worrying. It would take at least two months to develop a game engine.

This is already an exaggeration!

In just two months, creating a brand new game engine from scratch is a complete miracle in the gaming industry.

Chen Ba took a look.

The system's progress bar has reached 51%, and it is expected that Tianba Studio will have a brand new game engine in about 20 days.

So looking forward to it!

The physics calculation engine developed alone is so real and powerful, so what will this all-round game engine specially designed for 3A look like?

Can you catch up with Dream Building 6?

…

The news that Tianba Studio is secretly developing a game engine has not been deliberately hidden from others.

Mainly because Chen Ba didn't want to hide it.

Release the news in advance, whether it is true or false, and give everyone a vaccination in advance, so that an unprecedented game engine will not pop up at some time and the entire industry will be confused.

Players are full of expectations about this mysterious Tianba engine.

No one dares to think about reaching the heights of well-known game engines such as Dream Engine and Origin Engine, nor do they think that the first-generation engine developed by Tianba Studio can compete with such a mature engine.

After all, you have just started, how can you compare with others who have updated and iterated the engine for several versions?

But based on the powerful and realistic physics engine of the game "Speed", everyone also has high expectations for this unknown Tianba engine.

The same is true for Chen Ba.

But he knows more, so he thinks differently from ordinary players.

The physics engine used in "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 "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 adds to the Tianba engine is actually AI artificial intelligence!

That's right!

This is completely different from traditional game engines. It can even be understood that this is a substitute specially created by Chen Ba to make up for the shortcomings of Tianba Studio's art.

In addition to screen rendering and physical simulation, Tianba engine also includes the most popular AI drawing and AI animation functions.

"A game engine that transcends generations."

Regarding this engine, Chen Ba only gave this evaluation.

After nearly a month of hard work, he finally got the finished product and conducted multiple rounds of testing. He finally understood why everyone was shouting about the hanging dog.

Cheating is really shameless!

While others are still struggling to write code, Tianba Studio has begun to exploit AI and use AI to develop games.

"Amazing!"

Yang Dong also tried out the new engine. Although he only had a taste of it, he could see that this Tianba engine was indeed more powerful than imagined.

The most intuitive experience is that this engine can automatically generate various art resources needed for the game without the need for "alchemy".

"Alchemy" is a proper noun.

It refers to letting AI learn a certain painter and learn a specific painting style, and then it can draw various works of that style. This process of conditioning and training is also called alchemy feeding.

New engines don'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 the AI.

The rest can 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 completely enough.

These two full-time art designers are responsible for determining the art tone and style of the game, starting from the beginning, and leaving the rest to the AI ​​to automatically generate it.

"When drawing map resources, you only need to draw a village, and the AI ​​can generate an entire continent's map art resources..."

Speaking of this, Yang Dong said with a smile: "This is so convenient, and this AI not only draws, but also automatically generates corresponding codes."

This is the most powerful thing.

It's okay to just be able to draw a picture, but after drawing it, turning the content in the picture into game content is a bit outrageous.

For example, Yang Dong asked AI to 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 and going in to visit, or NPCs coming to the church to pray, etc.

"But having said that, AI is still AI. Making a game cannot rely too much on these gadgets. It is unrealistic to completely replace artificial intelligence."

"nonsense!"

Of course Chen Ba knew this was unrealistic.

No matter how powerful the Tianba engine is, it is just a game engine. It cannot do what Yang Dong said, which is to automatically generate a game by inputting specific instructions.

At present, these functions of Tianba engine only play an auxiliary role. Whether it is easy to use and how useful it is depends on how developers use it.

The engine is there and the motion capture team is in place.

Chen Ba immediately decided to use this new Tianba engine to create a cool open world role-playing game with a modern city as the background.

He had already thought of the name.

"Global Evolution"!

This is a story about the "revival of spiritual energy", the evolution of all things, the fall of human beings from the altar, and the lead of the protagonist to regain the throne of the leader of all races.

In 2045 AD, the world changed suddenly.

Various extreme thunderstorms occur all over the world, with lightning, thunder, and heavy rain, making it look like the end of the world.

This rain is not simple...

"Everyone who has been exposed to the rain has evolved?" Xiao Lu suddenly thought.

"That's right!"

Chen Ba glanced at Xiao Lu and guessed that this kid usually read online novels, so he nodded and said: "It has been raining for a whole month, and all the animals or plants that have been exposed to the rain have undergone changes."

Humanity has fallen off the altar.

With the rise of ferocious beasts, human firearms are completely ineffective, and even plants have become extremely terrifying. Human beings are so weak that they can only give up large areas of territory and retreat to bases one after another.

The story originates from the base city of Jiangning.

The protagonist of the game, Chen Yun, whose parents died in the first beast attack after the sudden change in the world, struggled to survive with his sister Chen Jia.

"Why does this kind of protagonist have a sister?"

Xiao Lu wanted to complain, who was the one who started this, so that all subsequent works, whether they are games, animations or novels, all have a sister.

"I didn't know, everyone has younger sisters anyway, so our protagonist should also have a younger sister..."

Chen Ba thinks this is not important.

Whether it's a younger sister or a younger brother, after all, it gives the male protagonist a rich personality. In the final analysis, he is just a tool, so there is no need to care too much.

Moreover.

The other protagonists have both parents died, and they start with a sister and a house. It’s not easy for Tianba Studio to do anything special. Since everyone has a sister, they can have one too!

Just don’t be a dragster...