Senxia has been very happy for the past two days.

But the hardware department has been quite nervous for the past two days, and the Order of the Phoenix has been really worried and scared recently.

Giant tough boss, Sony is also a big guy.

When there is a fight between the big guy and the big guy, the ones who die are often the juniors behind.

For example, the world's No. 1 and the world's No. 2 PK are often the world's No. 3 fish.

Because the big guy has a rich family background and strong technical strength, he can reduce the finished product without a lower limit and pull away developers and suppliers.

But the juniors behind were confused.

——The big guy pushed the price down so low and pulled the supplier away, what are we doing?

The Order of the Phoenix is now in such a position that is not embarrassing or embarrassing.

At the beginning, the Order of the Phoenix still had some resentment about Senxia being in such a hurry to develop GS, and this so-called "iterative update" was also unacceptable to many people.

However, Senxia has already decided that the products of the Order of the Phoenix should be iterated with a minimum of one year and a maximum of two and a half years.

In the process of iteration, the new game will probably remain available for 2~3 generations, and the subsequent parts will be phased out.

Of course, none of this has anything to do with the visual development department.

It also has nothing to do with Shizaburo Oho.

Shizaburo Ohho is not an old man of the "Sega line", but a trusted employee who joined Stanford University.

He was originally a member of the North American division of the Order of the Phoenix, and from the time of joint development with IBM, the Order of the Phoenix itself pulled its own development department to develop visual technology.

The development department was originally based in California, but has since moved back to Tokyo.

There's a lot of work here, but now it's the most important thing to do is to develop dynamic resolution.

Dynamic resolution was originally to be applied on the next generation of hosts, so Senxia also began to recruit people to develop it early.

After tackling the dual-core CPU, the goal of the next generation of GS is the triple core CPU and dynamic resolution.

"The core of the CPU must be increased with each generation, so the optimization of threads must be done well, and our development package must be grasped for multi-core efficiency. "That's what Senxia said.

However, even so, the performance of the core is not said to be achieved overnight.

In order to achieve better results, dynamic resolution is required.

To put it simply, when the picture is complex, reduce the game resolution, and then turn on the high resolution when the picture is a static scene or the load is high.

——An explosion scene, users will not care whether it is 480P or 720P, but a beautiful mountain cliff scenery, it must be exquisite to look good.

Of course, Shizaburo Ohbo's job is not actually like this.

Because he's developing ...... In fact, it is neural networks and AI algorithms.

The concept was popular more than a decade later, but in fact, the research began in the eighties.

And his work is also highly confidential.

Well, in other words, what Shizaburo Ohho is researching is actually the "black technology" of the Order of the Phoenix.

"Leverage machine deep learning to optimize the picture...... But this deep learning chip itself is very troublesome......"

He sighed.

"Don't say that, this technology is cool, really cool, and I was thinking, this technology must have a really great future in the future. "The man who spoke was called Brandon Witz.

This man was a former teacher, and if the world line had not changed, this man would have gone on to become a giant hard and then set up a company called "Recognant" in San Jose, California.

What is Recognant?

Well, a competitor of IBM's Watson system, the developer of the NLP engine.

What is NLP?

Well...... It's simple, let the computer understand people, that's it.

All in all, this brother is a great power of the future, a leader in the field of neural networks and artificial intelligence.

That was, of course, twelve years later.

But unfortunately, Shizaburo Ohho didn't know this.

In fact, he was slandering at this time, this guy from the lighthouse country, his English is too non-standard.

When he went to study in the lighthouse country, Shizaburo Oho had a great prejudice against the people in the lighthouse country: these people are obviously crooked nuts, but when they speak English, they don't have a neon gold standard of their own.

Even if you have such a standard English, sometimes the other party can't understand it!

Please, aren't you native English speakers?!

Why can't you understand people's words?

"But it's really hard to do. Shizaburo Oho shook his head.

In order to take care of these lighthouse people who don't speak English well, he speaks quite slowly.

"And some of the technologies are so incredible, this DLSS technology ......"

The so-called DLSS technology, also known as deep learning supersampling.

To put it simply, it is a stretching algorithm, for example, if the desktop wants to display a 4K resolution picture, the system can render it with 1080P or 2K resolution, and then stretch it to 4K in this way.

Of course,It's not a random promotion.,It's to be obtained through system learning.,It's not a random picture.,There's a gap with the native 4K.,But it's definitely more than 2K and 1080P.。

"That's a long-term plan, important but not urgent. Brandon shrugged, "I think the boss's idea is very creative." ”

"But sometimes his ideas are too wild, but this kind of young genius is like that. ”

Senxia also put forward a requirement for the Order of the Phoenix, that is, starting with the next generation of GS, the game needs to support 720P resolution.

It's not that it's just capable of outputting 720P now, but it's that the game can output 720P normally.

This is actually a very troublesome thing, and in the eyes of many people, there is no such demand for current TVs.

But the boss said that it is necessary to consider the next generation of plasma TVs and LCD TVs, so the upgrade of the machine is for sure.

"But this VRS technology, I think if it can be realized, the effect will be much better. ”

Variable_Rate_Shading, that's the name of this technology.

Unlike DLSS, which requires long-term development, this technology, which is scheduled for next-generation machines, needs to be supported from a hardware perspective.

"The adaptive shading system, which is really interesting. Brandon also sighed, "This technology can at least improve the performance by a large margin." As long as you can run games at 480P resolution well, I think it's completely feasible to use this technology with dynamic resolution to support the 720P game performance output. ”

"I also think this technology is more meaningful. Shizaburo Oho also nodded.

In a game, when the game renders the screen, it rasterizes the screen, that is, divides it into grids and then fills in the colors.

But sometimes, this kind of coloring doesn't really need to be so fine.

For example, in a low-light scene, the resolution of this scene is 1080p, but the shading is reduced to 720p, and the black areas that are difficult to see by the human eye are further reduced to 480p or even lower for shading, which can effectively improve the performance.

The human eye is not sensitive to the information of dark scenes, so you can do it casually.

On top of that, the same is true for vigorous exercise and a lot of motion blur.

This is especially true in motion blur screens. Motion blur is completely indistinguishable anyway, so coloring with a larger raster is actually no problem at all - it's all pasty anyway.

"But this analysis itself also consumes resources, and at low resolution, the efficiency is not very high, but the resolution of 720P should be fine. Brandon pondered.

On the development side, the mental work is more intensive than just writing code.

"What are you going to do?"

"My idea is to have the program analyze the light and dark parts of the picture while the game is running, and rough shade the scenes that require motion blur and unimportant shadows. "The darker and more moving places, the best performance improvement is the technology." But in brighter places, it's more subtle. ”

It can also be used with interleaved rendering...... Tsk, I feel like I'm cutting corners......" Shizaburo Oho felt very upset.

Interleaved rendering is also a technology that is currently under development.

To put it simply, the image is to remove the pixels of the black grid from the vertical and horizontal intervals like a chess checkerboard, and only render the pixels that remain in the white grid.

The removed pixels are reconstructed from the average color values of the adjacent unextracted pixels, and then in the next frame of the game, the contents of the black grid are rendered, ignoring the pixels of the white grid, and alternately interpolated, finally becoming the complete image seen by the human eye.

- This method is somewhat similar to the mixing of "interlaced" technology and "picture color shaking" technology in today's televisions.

As for the Order of the Phoenix, this side prefers to call this mode "checkerboard rendering".

"You don't like this technology?"

"Not really. This technology can reduce the amount of work required to render images a lot, and if half of the pixels are removed, the amount of rendering work is cut in half, and the frame rate of the game can be much better......"

It's a good technique, right.

However, there is a downside to this, that is, there will be staggered aliasing at the edges of the interpolation, so the image quality will feel degraded in the fine scene.

Indeed, this is a good thing. ”

"But I felt like I was a fake. Although it is doing the so-called "black technology".

But in fact, Shizaburo Ohbo's job is to study how to "cut corners" on the screen.

"There is also the reduction of the lateral resolution of the evil way, because the human eye is not sensitive to the lateral resolution, so the horizontal resolution is retained to a greater extent, and then the vertical resolution is reduced...... It's said to be a 720P picture, but it's really okay to cut 960×720 to 480×720?"

"In unimportant scenarios, this strategy is a must. ”

"Well, yes, we're not the only ones doing it. He glanced at Brandon next to him.

- Wait, Brandon is next to him, and who is talking to him?!

"Ahh

The person who suddenly appeared was Mori Xia.

Ji Ye promised to help, which made Mori Xia very happy, he is now floating when he walks.

In order to celebrate, Senxia decided to visit the class.

But as soon as I arrived here, I heard employees complaining about the new technology they had developed.

"So, do you think there are any shortcomings in these techniques?" asked Senxia again.

"Ahh......h

This feeling......

It's as if he was complaining to his table mate that the head teacher was a dominatrix, and then found that the head teacher was listening with a smile behind him.

"Although it is about optimizing performance, your work is based on five or ten years, and it needs to be constantly adjusted and improved. Sen Xia said with a smile, "Da Baosang, your technical skills are very strong, so I asked you to join the development here, these technologies are our Phoenix Society's ten-year plan." ”

Some technologies are not possible now, and some are too expensive to implement.

But it doesn't matter, because for the Order of the Phoenix, these technologies are all future technology reserves.

"Hey......" Dabao nodded.

"Think about it, if our game uses better graphics, the performance will definitely not be enough, right?"

"Hmmm......"

This one really is.

The current GS is in its early stages, and there is still room for improvement in image quality, but there is definitely no way to improve the graphics of DC-P and DC.

"However, with these methods, we can use the power of one point to make the player see a three-point picture - even if the picture should be five, but it's better than one, right?"

"Yes......"

And that's really the case.

"So, your work isn't useless!" Mori Xia patted Shizaburo Oho on the shoulder.

Then he added, "But if you really don't like the job, we also have a new project called 'Photo Mode', in which we use a dynamic ultra-HD resolution DSR mode. To put it simply, we render the image at 1080p resolution and then scale to 720p to remove aliasing and improve image quality. ”

This method of "anti-aliasing" can be said to be the perfect anti-aliasing method, but compared to the previous lazy method, this method is a thankless "overwork" method.

Mori Xia took a different approach and came up with such a good idea to take pictures in this way.

He came here this time to add some burden to the department here.

"This ...... I'll be here anyway. ”

Shizaburo Oho felt that instead of going for some photos, it would be better to stay here.

At least it allows players to play a more comfortable game and better graphics, doesn't it?

"Yo Xi, then you can do your best. Mori Xia said, "The Yamato nation is an excellent nation, and even counterfeiting must be organized and chartered." Counterfeiting can't be messed up, and counterfeiting also requires us to work together. ”

"Hey!"

Shizaburo Oho sat down excitedly, he felt that he was energetic again!

"It's this energy, neon gold, even if it's fake, you have to make it seriously!"

"Yes!"

“……？？？”

Brydon next to him had a strange expression.

He always felt that something was wrong......

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Because there is no Chinese a lot of information, so the author's information is checked in the original English information, if there is anything wrong, it is purely the change of the world line and the pot of Gu Niang's translation......

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