Chapter 358: Star Engine

Almost everyone of us has played some games, but few people know that the core technology of a game is the game engine.
There are many engine technologies, game engines, light and shadow rendering engines, modeling engines, logic engines in the world, and such core engine technologies have long been a billion dollar business.
In terms of the game engine industry giants, Unity and Unreal, as early as 2016, games designed using the Unity engine tool reached 15 billion downloads, and 59% of VR games use Unity tools. Of the top 1000 free games, 38% 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. Seventy percent of mobile games use the engine of Unity.
Unity's old rivals, called epigame, have mastered the most advanced game engine in the world, Unreal Four Generations.
Dawn, Gears of War, Kingdom Hearts, Killing Dawn, Ark, Weapons and Equipment. These game masterpieces use Unreal Engine IV. In addition, the recent hot mobile game of chicken eating, Jedi Survival stimulates the battlefield, and the engines used are Unreal four generations.
The use of Unreal Engine 4 is free, but once a game developed based on Unreal Engine is released, you must pay 5% of the sales fee as a usage fee. As early as 2016, the total revenue of Unreal Engine ’s parent company, epigame, has already exceeded A staggering $ 10 billion.
In addition, there are many well-known rendering engines in the world. RenderMan has a powerful Shader compiler and anti-animation blurring function, which is a great weapon for Pixar Studios to fight the world.
Finding Nemo, Superman, Toy Story, and so on. Behind those familiar Pixar animation masterpieces, we use the RenderMan rendering engine.
The rendering effect ofentalRay is also world-class, but its operation is much simpler and more efficient than RenderMan. It has an intelligent renderer that can easily implement reflection, refraction, caustics, global light illumination 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 theentRay rendering engine.
Anyway, we can conclude that games and movies are not only a game about creativity and imagination, but also a feast of top technology.
Without professional engine technology, the wild imagination will eventually be just a castle in the air. Do you think that the powerful place in Hollywood is only creativity and script?
too naive.
Hollywood controls almost all of the world ’s most powerful rendering engines. Many engines are not sold at all. You cannot buy them if you want to buy them. 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 Xingchen Technology is here, this huge and ambitious China First Technology Group brought their own Xingchen rendering engine and showed it to the friends of Tencent, which directly stunned Boss Ma and several leaders of Tencent. .
"This turned out to be your engine !?"
Pony opened his mouth wide and reached for a pack of cigarettes from his pocket. He was an old cigarette, three packs of cigarettes a day.
My little brother passed the cigarette to Luo Jia, and Luo Jia shook her head slightly to indicate that she had quit, and she took a spit of spit, restrained the addiction on the head, and put the cigarette back.
Several Tencent-level figures from Tencent have expressed shock. From the perspective of the demonstration animation, the level of the star engine seems to be above the fourth generation of Unreal, especially the most difficult light and shadow processing in the rendering industry. The performance of the star engine is extremely amazing. Projected into the depths of the cave, a clear junction of light and darkness is formed, and the dust rises into the light, refracting a rainbow-like illusion.
Huaxia is already the world ’s largest movie box office and game market. The slogan of the rise of domestic movies and games has also been called for many years, and has achieved some results. The wandering earth has opened the era of Chinese science fiction. The domestically produced chicken game has become popular worldwide. Love to play.
However, ordinary people may not know that movies and games are not only a cultural product, but also a technological product.
The movie Wandering Earth opened the era of domestic special effects. Most of the special effect scenes were completed by domestic studios. This is the first time in the history of domestic movies. Previously, no matter the Great Wall or Golden Armor, those movie special effects were helped by foreigners. Only Wandering Earth, 70% of the special effects come from local production.
However, we must also see that the engines used by the ontology special effects companies are still imported. As for the game field, they rely more on foreign engine rendering technology. Recently, everyone is looking forward to the new version of the swordsman love, which uses the Unreal 4th generation engine as the Selling points to publicize, announce all players around the world, we use advanced foreign engines, everyone please try it, it's great.
Anyway, companies like Tencent that produce a large number of games every year, the engine is their lifeblood. Xingchen Technology brings 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 see now is not the final version. Prior to this, the Star Engine was just an interest group within our company. It was a product of self-entertainment in my spare time. It was only a week ago. The project was formally established and became the company's key development project. "
what?
The product of self-entertainment?
My little brother sounds stupid. Who can imagine it? A few technology houses of Xingchen Technology are messing around in their spare time, and they have come up with such an amazing thing. The strength of the tough guy sky group is too scary, right?
Luo Jiadun said again, "In addition, Xingchen is not a game engine, nor is it a light and shadow rendering engine, not a modeling engine, but a general-purpose engine. For the technical details of this, our theoretical mathematics group Jiang Dong, my colleague, let me explain to you. "
By the way, Luo Jia sat down, but a lot of big guys on Tencent's side twitched. Such an important engine system, but found a theoretical and mathematical person to explain, took the wrong medicine?
Under the watchful eye of everyone, Jiang Dong stood up slowly. A young man under the age of thirty, due to lack of exercise at home all year round, was pale, with huge black-framed glasses, and his hair was a bit messy.
Jiang Dong adhering to the style of the tough guy sky group, but also a lot of nonsense, even self-introduction is saved, and began to get rid of technology theory.
"Tile-based deferredrendering, TBDR for short." Jiang Dong said, "This is the core solution of our rendering technology. This solution can optimize the three major disadvantages of the Deferredrendering rendering method. The principle is that the entire light intensity RT is divided into many first. For a square area, calculate which light sources are affected by each area, save them, and accumulate all the lights in a batch for each area. This can reduce the number of frequent reading and writing of a pixel on the light intensity RT. . "
"The main idea of ​​TBDR is to divide the screen into small tiles, then get the boundingbox of each tile based on these Depth, and intersect the boundingbox and light of each tile. light sequence. "
"Finally, based on the obtained sequence, calculate the lighting effect of the tile in which it is located, and determine the pixel that it plays ..."
Jiang Dong ’s speech has just begun. The technology bulls on the opposite side of Tencent are stupid. They are too professional. They ca n’t imagine. The otaku in front of him is actually engaged in theoretical mathematics by Xingchen Technology. At this level, it is on Tencent. The company is enough to be the chief manager of the technology department, but at Xingchen Technology, Jiang Dong can only engage in theoretical mathematics. At the same time, many senior executives of Tencent have the idea of ​​soliciting Jiang Dong.
The straight steel man talked about technology, it was simple and rude, and everyone at the scene was exploding his head. At this time, Jiang Dong finally concluded. Special effects are based on the four crossover technologies I just mentioned, plus our second-generation artificial intelligence star. "
Poppy poppy
My little pony brother and Tencent executives applauded, secretly admiring the star technology is really awesome, what kind of unreal four generations, the star engine can not only drive the game, but also can be used for movie special effects, less resource scheduling, the effect is more excellent.
Moreover, this is only a beta version. The powerful research and development force of Xingchen Technology has already entered the market. The final product layout and optimization of Xingchen Engine is being done. I believe that the game and movie special effects industry will definitely make a huge sensation when the official version is released.
After Jiang Dong sat down, Luo Jia stood up and said with some regrets: "Although Jiang Dong is engaged in theoretical mathematics and computational mathematics, he is the framework writer and system architect of this star engine. I was originally It is his intention to lead the Star Engine project team, but unfortunately he has no interest in it. "
Oh!
That's it!
People at Tencent suddenly realized that no one who is engaged in mathematics is so powerful. It turned out that even the star engine framework was written by Jiang Dong, a powerful and cross-professional Daniel!
Jiang Dong said faintly: "Oh, I still like to study mathematics, write frameworks, and study algorithms. It's just my hobby. If I take hobbies as work, then it's the upside down."
I'll go, this forced one can hit 120!
Pony and Tencent's executives are almost crazy. It has long been heard that Xingchen Technology lacks everything, but it does not lack talent. Now it seems that it is true. Even if they do theoretical mathematics, they can write top rendering engines. Framework, is this a monster company?
My elder brother suddenly felt completely passive ~ EbookFREE.me ~ The technology of Xingchen Technology is real, the is real hard core. Even if Tencent is crazy, it would never want to be against the tough guys. If it is mixed with Xingchen Technology, 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 admire it, but upstream original websites like the starting point can only be in your hands. As an IP supplier, it's just too hard. "
"If I get the starting point, it will become a war planner against Hollywood entertainment hegemony, a new starting point, the foundation of the future Star Universe and the Chinese hero system."
"Marvel and DC ’s superhero system VS the starting point of the fairy tale fantasy fantasy science fiction system, everyone is the product of imagination, but who is the deer, I really look forward to it, boss Ma?"
. Emperor Jiutian
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