Technological Supremacy Chapter 358: Star Engine

Almost all of us have played some games more or less, but few people know that the core technology of a game is the game engine.

There are many engine technologies in the world, such as game engines, light and shadow rendering engines, modeling engines, logic engines, and such core engine technologies have long been a big business worth tens of billions of dollars.

Taking Unity and Unreal as the two giants in the game engine industry, as early as 2016, games designed using Unity engine tools reached 15 billion downloads, and 59% of VR games Using Unity tools, 38 percent of the top 1,000 free games are based on the Unity engine.

At present, Unity has occupied half of the console and PC game market, especially in the field of mobile games, 70% of mobile games use the engine of Unity.

Unity's old rival, called epicgame, they master the world's most advanced game engine, Unreal IV.

Dawn, Gears of War, Kingdom Hearts, Dead by Daylight, Ark, weapons and equipment, these game masterpieces all use the Unreal 4 engine. In addition, the recently popular chicken-eating mobile game, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds: Exciting Battlefield, uses The engine is Unreal Four.

The use of the Unreal Engine 4 is free, but once a game developed based on the Unreal Engine is launched, you have to pay 5% of the sales as a royalty. As early as 2016, epicgame, the parent company of Unreal Engine, had a total revenue of It has already broken through an astonishing 10 billion US dollars.

In addition, there are many world-renowned rendering engines. RenderMan has a powerful Shader compiler and anti-animation blur function, which is a sharp weapon for Pixar Studios to conquer the world.

Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Toy Story, etc., behind the animation masterpieces of Pixar that we are familiar with, the RenderMan rendering engine is used.

entalRay's rendering effect is also world-class, but its operation is much simpler than RenderMan, and its efficiency is very high. It has an intelligent renderer, which can easily realize reflection, refraction, caustics, global illumination and other renderers. Difficult to achieve effect.

Star Wars Prequel, Terminator 3, The Day After Tomorrow, these global box office masterpieces are all based on the entalRay rendering engine.

In summary, we can draw the following conclusions, games and movies are not just a game about creativity and imagination, but also a feast of top technology.

Without professional engine technology, unrestrained imagination will be nothing but a castle in the air. Do you think that the strengths of Hollywood are only creativity and scripts?

Too naive.

Hollywood controls almost all the most powerful rendering engines in the world. Many engines are not for sale at all, and you can’t buy them if you want to. The gap between China and North America in the field of culture and entertainment is not only in terms of influence, It's more about technology.

Now that Xingchen Technology is here, this huge and ambitious Huaxia No. 1 Technology Group has brought their own Xingchen rendering engine and shown it to friends from Tencent. Boss Ma and several people from Tencent were stunned. leaders.

"This is the engine you made!?"

Brother Xiao Ma opened his mouth wide, reached out his hand and took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket. He was an old smoker, the kind who smoked three packs a day.

Brother Xiao Ma handed the cigarette to Luo Jia. Luo Jia shook his head lightly, indicating that he had quit.

Several bigwigs from Tencent expressed shock one after another. Judging from the demonstration animation, the level of the Star Engine seems to be above Unreal IV, especially the most difficult light and shadow processing in the rendering industry. The performance of the Star Engine is extremely high. Stunning, the sunlight is projected into the depths of the cave, forming a clear boundary between light and darkness, and the dust floats into the light, refracting a rainbow-like illusion.

China is already the largest movie box office and game market in the world. The slogan of the rise of domestic movies and games has been shouted for many years, and some achievements have been made. The Wandering Earth has opened the era of Chinese science fiction, and domestic chicken eating games are popular all over the world. , foreigners also like to play.

However, ordinary people may not know that movies and games are not only cultural products, but also technical products.

The movie The Wandering Earth ushered in the era of domestic special effects. Most of the special effects scenes were completed by domestic studios. It's done, only the Wandering Earth, 70% of the special effects come from local production.

However, we must also see that the engine used by the ontology special effects company is still imported. As for the game field, it relies more on foreign engine rendering technology. The first-generation engine is used as a selling point to publicize and announce to players all over the world that we have used an advanced foreign engine. Come and try it, it’s cool.

Anyway, for a company like Tencent that produces a large number of games every year, the engine is their lifeblood. Star Technology has brought a sharper engine technology than Unreal IV, which is definitely a huge temptation for Tencent.

Luo Jia said lightly: "I want to point out that the star engine you are seeing now is not the final version. Before that, the star engine was just a product of an interest group in our company. It was officially approved before and became a key development project of the company."

What?

The product of self-entertainment?

Brother Xiao Ma was stunned. Who would have imagined that some technical nerds from Xingchen Technology were messing around in their spare time, and they actually came up with such an amazing thing. The strength of the tough guys is too terrifying, right?

Luo Jia paused and said, "In addition, Xingchen is not a game engine, nor a light and shadow rendering engine, nor a modeling engine, but a general engine. Regarding the technical details, our Jiang Dong, a colleague from the Theoretical Mathematics Group, is here to explain to you."

After all, Luo Jia sat down, but all the bigwigs on Tencent's side pouted. Such an important engine system, but found a theoretical mathematics expert to explain it. Did you take the wrong medicine?

Under everyone's gaze, Jiang Dong stood up slowly. A young man under 30 years old, due to lack of exercise at home all year round, his face was pale, he wore huge black-rimmed glasses, and his hair was a bit messy .

Jiang Dong adhered to the style of the tough guys, and he didn't talk too much nonsense. He didn't even introduce himself, and started talking about technical theory directly.

"Tile-baseddeferredrendering, referred to as TBDR." Jiang Dong said, "This is the core solution of our rendering technology. This solution can optimize the three disadvantages of Deferredrendering rendering method. Divide it into many square areas, calculate which light sources are affected by each area, save them, and accumulate all the light in a batch with each area as a unit, so as to reduce the frequent reading of a certain pixel on the light intensity RT The number of writes."

"The main idea of ​​TBDR is to divide the screen into small tiles, and then obtain the boundingbox of each tile according to these Depth, and intersect the boundingbox and light of each tile, so that the tile is obtained A sequence of lights that work."

"Finally, according to the obtained sequence, calculate the lighting effect of the tile, and determine the pixel it acts on..."

Jiang Dong's speech had just started, and the technology giants of Tencent on the opposite side were dumbfounded. They were too professional. In Tencent, it is enough to be the head of the technology department, but in Xingchen Technology, Jiang Dong can only do theoretical mathematics. In an instant, many executives of Tencent began to recruit Jiang Dong.

Steel Straight Man talked about technology, simple and rude, and the heads of the people present were about to explode. At this time, Jiang Dong finally made a conclusion, "Simply put, our star engine can not only be used as the logic engine of the game, but also for the game. The light and shadow special effects for movies are based on the four crossover technologies I just mentioned, plus our second-generation artificial intelligence star."

Papa Papa Papa~

Xiao Ma and the executives of Tencent applauded one after another, secretly admiring that Xingchen Technology is really awesome, what about Unreal 4, the Xingchen engine can not only drive games, but also make special effects for movies, with less resource scheduling , the effect is better.

Moreover, this is only a beta version. The strong research and development force of Star Technology has entered the market, and is doing the final product layout and optimization of Star Engine. I believe that when the official version comes out, the game and movie special effects industry will definitely cause a huge sensation. .

After Jiang Dong sat down, Luo Jia stood up, and said with some regret: "Although Jiang Dong is engaged in theoretical mathematics and computational mathematics, he is the framework writer and system architect of this star engine. , I originally planned to let him lead the star engine project team, but unfortunately he has no interest in it."

Oh!

So it is!

The people at Tencent suddenly realized that it was no wonder that a person who was engaged in mathematics was so good at it. It turned out that even the star engine framework was written by Jiang Dong.

Jiang Dong said lightly: "Hehe, I still like to study mathematics, write frameworks, and study algorithms. They are just my hobbies. If you treat your hobbies as your work, you will be putting the cart before the horse."

I'll go, this pretender can score 120 points!

Brother Xiao Ma and the executives of Tencent are going crazy. I have heard that Xingchen Technology lacks everything, but it does not lack geniuses. Now it seems to be true. Even those who are engaged in theoretical mathematics can write Top rendering engine framework, is this a monster company?

Brother Xiao Ma suddenly felt that he was completely passive~IndoMTL.com~ The technology of Xingchen Technology is really awesome, and the **** is really hardcore. If you follow Xingchen Technology in the future, I am afraid there will be great benefits.

At this time, Luo Jia smiled, "I like to tell the truth, to be honest, Tencent is the most successful Internet company in the world, I personally appreciate it very much, but upstream original websites like Qidian are in your hands But it can only be used as an IP supplier, which is really too inferior.”

"If I get the starting point, it will become a war plan against Hollywood's entertainment hegemony, a brand new starting point, and the foundation of the future star universe and China's hero system."

"Marvel and DC's superhero system VS the starting point's fantasy fantasy science fiction system, everyone is the product of imagination, but who will win the game, I am really looking forward to it, where is Boss Ma?"

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