Almost every one of us has played some games more or less, but few people know that the most 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. These core engine technologies have long been a big business that costs tens of billions of dollars.

As for the two giants in the game engine industry, Unit and Unreal, as early as 2016, games designed using the unity engine tool reached 15 billion downloads, and 59% of VR games use the unity tool. Among the top 1,000 free games, 38% were developed based on the unity engine.

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

Unity's old rival, called epigame, controls the world's most advanced game engine, the Unreal Fourth Generation.

Dawn, War Machines, Heart of the Kingdom, Dawn Killing Intention, Ark, Weapons and Equipment, these game masterpieces use the Unreal Fourth Generation Engine. In addition, the recently very popular Chicken Eating Mobile Game, the exciting battlefield of PUBG, is also the Unreal Fourth Generation Engine.

The use of Unreal Fourth Generation Engine is free, but once a game developed based on Unreal Engine is launched, it will have to pay 5% of the sales as a usage fee. As early as 2016, the total revenue of Unreal Engine's parent company Epigame had exceeded an astonishing $10 billion.

In addition, there are many world-renowned rendering engines. Renderman has a powerful shader compiler and anti-animation blur function, which is a powerful tool for Pixar Studio to fight the world.

Finding Nemo, Superman, Toy Story, etc., behind those Pixar animation masterpieces we are familiar with, all use the renderman rendering engine.

Entalray's rendering effect is also world-class, but its operation is much simpler than renderman and has very high efficiency. It has an intelligent renderer that can easily achieve effects such as reflection, refraction, caustics, and global lighting that are difficult to achieve by other renderers.

Star Wars Prequel, Terminator 3, and the day after tomorrow, these global box office masterpieces are all created based on the Entalray rendering engine.

Anyway, to sum up, we can draw the following conclusion that games and movies are not just a game about creativity and imagination, but also a feast of top technology.

Without professional engine technology, the imagination will eventually be just a castle in the air. Do you think the powerful part of Hollywood is just creativity and scripts?

Too naive.

Hollywood controls almost all the awesome rendering engines in the world. Many engines are not sold to the public at all. You can't buy them even if you want to. The gap between China and North America in the cultural and entertainment field is not only in terms of influence, but also in terms of technology.

Now Xingchen Technology is here. This huge and ambitious Huaxia No. 1 Technology Group has brought their own Star Rendering Engine to show it to friends of Tencent, which directly shocked Boss Ma and several Tencent leaders.

"This is the engine you made!?"

Brother Ma opened his mouth wide and reached out to take out a box of cigarettes from his pocket. He was an old cigarette gun, the kind of cigarettes that were three boxes of cigarettes a day.

Brother Ma handed Luo Jia the cigarette, and Luo Jia shook his head gently, saying that he had quit. Brother Ma swallowed and restrained his cigarette, and put the cigarette back.

Several big-name figures from Tencent expressed their shock. Judging from the demonstration animation, the level of Star Engine seems to be above the Illusion Four Generations, especially the most difficult light and shadow processing in the rendering world. Star Engine's performance is extremely amazing. The sunlight is projected into the depths of the cave, forming a clear intersection between light and darkness. The dust floats into the light, reflecting a fantasy color similar to a rainbow.

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

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

The movie Wandering Earth has opened the era of domestic special effects. Most special effects scenes are completed by domestic studios. This is the first time in the history of domestic movies. Previously, whether it is the Great Wall or the Golden Armor, those movie special effects were helped by foreigners. Only Wandering Earth, and 70% of the special effects come from local productions.

But we also need to see that the engine used by the main effects company is still imported. As for the game field, it relies more on foreign engine rendering technology. Recently, everyone is looking forward to the new Swordsman Love Love model, so we use the Unreal Fourth Generation Engine as a selling point to promote it, and announce that all players around the world have used advanced foreign engines. Come and try it, it's so cool.

Anyway, companies like Tencent that produces a large number of games every year have engines as their lifeblood. Star Technology has brought more sharp engine technology than the fourth generation of Unreal, which is definitely a huge temptation for Tencent.

Luo Jia said lightly: "I want to point out that the Star Engine you are seeing at the moment is not the final version. Before that, Star Engine was just a product of an interest group within our company and a leisure time entertainment. It was officially launched a week ago and became the company's key development project."

What?

The product of self-entertainment?

Brother Ma was so stupid. Who could imagine that Xingchen Technology’s several technical occupants were doing random things in their spare time and actually created such an amazing thing. The strength of the tough guy group 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-purpose engine. Regarding the technical details, Jiang Dong, a colleague from our theoretical mathematics group, will explain it to you."

After saying that, Luo Jia sat down, but the big guys on Tencent kept sneering. With such an important engine system, he found someone who did theoretical mathematics to explain it. Did you take the wrong medicine?

Under the gaze of everyone, Jiang Dong slowly stood up. A young man under 30 years old, with a pale face and huge black-framed glasses, his hair was a little messy due to his long-term lack of exercise at home.

Jiang Dong adheres to the style of a tough guy group and doesn’t talk much nonsense, so he even saves himself from introducing himself, so he just starts to compete in technical theory.

"tile-based deferredrendering, referred to as tbdr for short." Jiang Dong said, "This is the core solution of our rendering technology. This solution can optimize the three major disadvantages of deferredrendering rendering method. The principle is to first divide the entire lighting intensity rt into many square areas, calculate which light sources each area is affected by, and save it. Then accumulate all the lighting in a batch in each area, so that the number of times a certain pixel on the lighting intensity rt is frequently read and written."

"The main idea of ​​tbdr is to divide the screen into small tiles, and then find the bounbox of each tile based on these depths, and intersect the bounbox and light of each tile, so that the light sequence that works for the tile is obtained."

"Finally, based on the obtained sequence, calculate the lighting effect of the tile and determine its function pixel"

As Jiang Dong's speech began, the technical experts from Tencent opposite were all stunned. They were too professional. They could not imagine that the otaku in front of him was actually Xingchen Technology's theoretical mathematics. At this level, Tencent is enough to be the chief manager of the technology department, but at Xingchen Technology, Jiang Dong can only do theoretical mathematics. In an instant, many Tencent executives had the idea of ​​recruiting Jiang Dong.

The straight man in steel talks about technology, simple and rough, and everyone present is about to explode. At this time, Jiang Dong finally made a summary, "Simply put, our Star Engine can not only serve as a logic engine for the game, but also provide light and shadow special effects for the movie, based on the four major crossover technologies I just mentioned, plus our second generation of artificial intelligence little stars."

Sexy sex ~

Brother Xiao Ma and Tencent executives applauded, secretly admiring that Star Technology is really awesome, such as the Unreal Fourth Generation. Star Engine can not only drive games, but also use it for movie special effects, with fewer resource scheduling and better results.

And this is just a beta version. Xingchen Technology's powerful R&D power has entered the market and is making final product layout and optimization for Xingchen Engine. I believe that when the official version is released, 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 was not interested in it."

oh!

I see!

People on Tencent suddenly realized that no wonder a math person is so good at having such a good level. It turns out that even the Xingchen Engine framework was written by Jiang Dong. It is amazing, a big cross-professional person!

Jiang Dong said lightly: "Haha, I still like to study mathematics, write frameworks, and study algorithms. It's just my hobby. If you regard your hobby as work, it's the cart before the horse."

I'll go, this guy who pretends to be able to beat 120!

Brother Ma and Tencent’s executives are simply crazy. I have heard that Xingchen Technology lacks everything, but it’s not lacking geniuses. Now it seems that it is probably true. Even those who do theoretical mathematics can write a top-level rendering engine framework. Is this a monster company?

Brother Ma suddenly felt that he was completely passive. Xingchen Technology's technology is really awesome, and the hard core is really hard core. Even Tencent is crazy, it will never want to be enemies with the tough guy group. On the contrary, if he is with Xingchen Technology in the future, there will probably be great benefits.

At this time, Luo Jia smiled, "I like to be honest. 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 can only be used as IP suppliers in your hands, which is really insignificant."

"If I get the starting point, it will become a war planner against Hollywood entertainment hegemony, a brand new starting point, the foundation of the future Star Universe and the Chinese hero system."
Chapter completed!