Chapter 32 Planning Meetings
A brand-new projector was placed on the long table in the conference room, already connected to the laptop next to it, Xu Zhuce sat behind the notebook, skillfully operating the keyboard and mouse, and displayed the pictures, documents, tables and other contents that need to be displayed on the slide screen one by one. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The four planners sat opposite Xu Zhuce, each holding a signature pen in their hands, and kept copying the contents of the display on the slide screen as their own meeting minutes.
"Have you finished the planning documents for the equipment system and prop system?" asked Xu Zhuce, looking at Cao Zheng.
Cao Zheng nodded and said, "It's almost done." β
"When can you give it to me?" asked Xu Zhuce.
"No more than two hours. Cao replied affirmatively.
"Did you go with the art side today?" and how is the progress of the art resources of the 'man' and the 'demon girl'?" Xu Zhuce nodded and immediately changed the topic.
According to the game setting tentatively titled "Legend of the Six Paths Online", the six paths are divided into the Heavenly God Dao, the Demon Spirit Dao, the Earth Immortal Dao, the Bodhisattva Dao, the Human Dao, and the Netherworld Dao, which is actually the six races that players can play, or six professions, plus the difference between men and women, there are a total of twelve protagonist models.
Of course, as a demo version, you don't need to complete all the art resources of the protagonist, according to the plan of the production outline, you only need to complete the two parts of human men and monster women as a display, and the "men" and "demon girls" referred to by Xu Zhuce refer to this.
In fact, according to the planned production schedule, the corresponding resources of these twelve protagonists will be added in three stages: demo, alpha, and beta (i.e., demo, beta, and open beta, and the beta is sometimes divided into two parts: closed beta and open beta), and will not be completed until the official version.
Scheduling the completion of art resources so long is not only to save money and manpower in the early stage of game development, but also to make it easier to adjust the art style according to the feedback from each stage of testing, so this is also a common practice in game development.
"I went to ask Min Zhumei in the morning," Cao Zheng turned the record book forward, looked at the summary on the notebook and reported in an orderly manner, "The original painting, bust, head, model and texture of the 'man' have been completed, and the bone movements are still being adjusted; β
In the Holy Grail Studio, the art department is divided into two parts: 2D and 3D, which are subdivided into the original art group and the UI group, which are mainly responsible for the original character paintings, avatars, busts, scene original paintings, scale maps and various interfaces, etc.; The process of coloring the model is called skin mapping, which is responsible for transforming the character or scene from a flat concept map into a three-dimensional static model, while the action group is responsible for adding "bones" to the stationary model, so that it can complete various actions according to the needs of the game;
Therefore, there is a strict relationship between the original painting, the model and the skeleton, and it is impossible to start modeling without completing the original painting, and it is naturally impossible to start the work of the skeleton without the model.
"The progress of the original painting group is good, the model group and the action group have to go and urge it twice, and tell Min Zhumei that the related work of the 'demon girl' is the highest priority. Xu Zhuce nodded, tapped the keyboard to record the progress reported by the Cao system into the progress table of the notebook, and then continued to ask, "What about the program, when will the test server be set up?"
"By the end of this week at the latest. Cao said simply.
"It will take three days...... "Xu Zhuce tugged at the corners of his mouth, "Did you say which systems can be tested at that time?"
Cao Zheng continued to flip forward a page of the notebook, bowed his head and said, "Uh...... At present, it seems that only the scene system is partially completed, and you can test the character's four-way walking and collision with the teleportation points on the map, and the front end of the mission system is not finished, and the back end of the NPC system is not finished. β
Generally speaking, a certain system of an online game, in the case of "the front-end is not finished with the back-end", can actually be tested, but it can only simply test the interaction between input devices such as keyboard and mouse and the game, such as opening or closing the interface, which has little practical meaning, because all these behaviors do not transmit data to the back-end for verification, calculation and storage, nor can they read any real data from the back-end, in other words, it is a faΓ§ade project.
In the case of "the back-end is done and the front-end is not finished", the front-end cannot perform the corresponding operation at all, and there is no possibility of testing at all.
Moreover, after the front and back ends are completed independently, a joint debugging process must be carried out to become a complete system and have practical test significance.
"It's too slow. Tell Li Zhucheng and Gong Zhucheng that I said it. Xu Zhuce shook his head and threw up the long hair that fell down from his forehead to cover his eyes, "Let them not only worry about their own affairs, but coordinate the progress of their subordinates, the task system and NPC system must complete the front-end and back-end joint debugging before the weekend, no matter what time they have to get it these days, or they will come to the company to work overtime on the weekend." Next Monday, the planning department must test these three systems, and ask Li Zhucheng and Gong Zhucheng to watch and do it themselves. β
Speaking domineering words in a tone that was neither light nor serious, Xu Zhuce stared at Cao System opposite without expression, and saw that the other party nodded sincerely and immediately copied it quickly in the record book, so he nodded with satisfaction, and then moved his gaze to the other three planners.
Although Liu Kewei and She Guankan did not respond to the content of the conversation just now, they both looked at themselves intently. After all, the work just mentioned is not directly related to the two of them, so it is normal not to speak and not to record...... However, what happened to the new copywriter next to them?
He looked down at his notebook, but in his hand...... Playing with a pen?
In fact, Xu Zhuce didn't know that the reason why the fat man looked down at the record book was because he had been at home for too long, so he was really not used to looking directly at others.
As for turning a pen, it was a habit when he was a student, whenever he looked down at a book in class, in order not to be mistaken by the teacher for dozing off, he would take a pen and turn it around in his hand.
Even if the system planning work just mentioned has nothing to do with your copywriting, you look like you are careless, when this is an unimportant elective course in college?
Xu Zhuce was angry in his heart and snorted softly.
When the fat man heard this, he raised his head in confusion, and as soon as his eyes made contact with Xu Zhuce's gaze, he immediately lowered his head and continued to stare at his notebook seriously, as if he wanted to see a flower.
witnessed the whole process of interaction between Xu Zhuce and the fat man in just a few seconds, Liu Kewei quietly bumped the fat man with his elbow at a hidden angle, the fat man was stunned, and finally put down the pen in his hand and stopped playing.
But he still stared down at his notebook......
"What about the level, how is the progress of the completion of the scene map?" asked Xu Zhuce, turning his gaze to Liu Kewei.
"The original map has completed the Chang'an City of the main city scene, the Daoxiang Village of the field scene, and the Imperial City Water Prison of the copy scene. Liu Kewei didn't go through the record book, paused slightly, and added to himself without waiting for Xu Zhuce to ask, "According to the art side, these three map models can be submitted this weekend." β
"Let the model team give priority to completing the 'Demon Girl', and the map can not be so urgent. Xu Zhuce thought for a moment and continued, "If you can't complete the second map this week, if you want to test the collision teleportation point function, let the program copy two Chang'an maps to use them for the time being." β
"Okay, I'll tell them. Liu Kewei nodded simply.
"In the early stage of research and development, the priority of system planning was relatively high, and the current progress of the level can be busy by Lao Liu alone. Xu Zhuce turned his head to look at She Guan, "Xiao She, can you help Lao Cao out a few system documents during this time?"
"Good. She nodded briskly, "Which ones are for me?"
"I don't care about this, you will ask Lao Cao yourself later, and the two of you can coordinate privately. Xu Zhuce said lightly, "Lao Cao, you have your own ideas, Xiao She's document will be read for you first, and you will transfer it to me after you read it." β
"Ok, I see. Cao said with a smile.
Xu Zhuce stared at the copywriter who was still looking down at his record book in a slightly complicated mood, this guy's work at hand includes the plot outline, world background, chronicle, lv1βlv30 tasks, etc., not only completed in advance, but also made an additional "Xianxia Baojian System Planning Document" out, and it seems that he has started to write plot dialogues in the past few days?
The design of "Xianxia Treasure" is not a big problem, but after all, it is the icing on the cake and is not a necessary ingredient for this project......
"Duan Shanshan. Xu Zhuce is still accustomed to watching the other party talk about work, and can judge some of the other party's emotions and reactions from his expression, so he called out the name of the fat man with a little impatience, forcing the other party to look up at himself, "I have read your "Xianxia Treasure", it is an element that adds color to the game, and it can be done, but the priority should be ranked last." β
The otaku man nodded, submissively indicating that he had no objections, and then continued to look down at his notebook.
Come on, you can't have a 3D perspective on your notebook, right?
"Do you still have any questions?" said Xu intending to end the meeting.
At this time, for the first time since entering the conference room, the fat man took the initiative to raise his head.
"Well, I have a little idea about the dialogue system......
The tone is not high, but it is very firm.