Technological Hegemony

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, and logic engines, and such core engine technologies have long been a big business worth tens of billions of dollars.

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

The old rival of Unity is called epic game, they master the most advanced game engine in the world, 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 mobile game Chicken Eater, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds uses the same engine. Unreal Four.

The Unreal Engine 4 is free to use, 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, the total revenue of Epic Games, the parent company of the Unreal Engine, had Breaking through a staggering 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 those Pixar animation masterpieces we are familiar with, all use the RenderMan rendering engine.

The rendering effect of mental Ray 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 lighting and other renderers that are difficult to achieve. Effect.

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

Anyway, to sum it up, 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 just 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. The gap between China and North America in the field of culture and entertainment is not only in terms of influence, but also in technology aspect.

Now that Star Technology is here, this huge and ambitious Huaxia No. 1 Technology Group has brought their own Star Rendering Engine and shown it to friends from Tencent. Boss Ma and several leaders of Tencent were stunned. .

"This turned out to be the engine you made!?"

Brother Xiaoma opened his mouth wide and reached out to take 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, Brother Xiao Ma swallowed a mouthful of foam, restrained his craving for cigarettes, and put the cigarette back.

Several bigwigs from Tencent expressed shock one after another. Judging from the demonstration animation, the level of the Star Engine seems to be higher than that of Unreal IV, especially the most difficult light and shadow processing in the rendering industry. The performance of the Star Engine is extremely amazing. Sunshine Projected into the depths of the cave, forming a clear boundary between light and darkness, dust floats into the light one after another, 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. Domestic chicken eating games are popular all over the world. I like to play very much.

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. This is the first time in the history of a domestic film. Previously, no matter the Great Wall or the Golden Armor, those special effects were done by foreigners. Only in Wandering Earth, 70% of the special effects come from local productions.

But we also need to 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 selling points are used to publicize and announce to players all over the world that we have used an advanced foreign engine, everyone, 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 would like to point out that the star engine that 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 for self-entertainment in spare time. It was only released a week ago The project was formally approved 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 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 is it a light and shadow rendering engine, nor is it a modeling engine, but a general-purpose engine. Regarding the technical details, our theoretical mathematics team will My colleague, Jiang Dong, is here to explain it to you.”

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

Under everyone's gaze, Jiang Dong stood up slowly. A young man under thirty years old, his face was a little pale due to lack of exercise at home all year round, 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-based deferred rendering, referred to as TBDR." Jiang Dong said, "This is the core solution of our rendering technology. This solution can optimize the three major drawbacks of Deferred rendering. The principle is that the entire light intensity RT 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 number of writes."

"The main idea of ​​TBDR is to divide the screen into small tiles, and then obtain the bounding box of each tile according to these Depth, and intersect the bounding box and light of each tile, so that the tile has Sequence of lights to act on."

"Finally, according to the obtained sequence, calculate the lighting effect of the tile where it is located, 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. The company is good enough to be the chief executive of the technology department, but in Xingchen Technology, Jiang Dong can only do theoretical mathematics. In an instant, many executives of Tencent have started to recruit Jiang Dong.

The straight man of steel talked about technology, simple and rude, and everyone present was about to blow their heads. At this time, Jiang Dong finally made a conclusion, "Simply speaking, our star engine can not only be used as a logic engine for games, but also for movies. The special effects are based on the four crossover technologies I just mentioned, plus our second-generation artificial intelligence little star."

clap clap clap clap ~

Brother Xiaoma and the executives of Tencent applauded one after another, secretly admiring that Xingchen Technology is really awesome, what Unreal 4, the Xingchen engine can not only drive games, but also use it for special effects in movies, with less resource scheduling and better effects excellent.

Moreover, this is only a beta version. The strong research and development force of Star Technology has entered the market, and is making 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. It is planned to let him lead the star engine project team, but unfortunately he has no interest in it."

Oh!

I see!

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, an amazing, multi-disciplinary expert!

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, then you are putting the cart before the horse."

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

Brother Xiaoma 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 their theoretical mathematics can write a top-level rendering engine. Frame, is this a monster company?

Brother Xiao Ma suddenly felt that he was completely passive. The technology of Xingchen Technology is really awesome, and the hardcore is really hardcore. I'm afraid there are 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 an upstream original website like Qidian can only be used in your hands. As an IP supplier, it 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 I really look forward to who will win the game. Where is Boss Ma?"

. Nine Heavens Emperor

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