A month and a half passed in a flash, and in a blink of an eye, it was Christmas in 2004. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Gu Cheng snatched a large amount of money from Sun Zhengyi, which was in September, so he was very busy throughout October after that—busy buying, buying, and layout.

From the new music and game content distribution platform, to the preparation of the NICONICO video network, to the preliminary layout of artificial intelligence push, and even the release of Lei Jun to do his own hardware business, Gu Cheng's life before November was almost completely filled.

By November, he had been relatively empty. The layout of each piece, after the project is established and planned, can only bear fruit in three or four months, and the slower e-book business, such as Lei Jun's e-book business, will take at least more than a year to see results.

The two businesses of Renren and "Zhu Xian", everything is as calm as water, which can be simply summarized as "natural growth".

The social popularity of image search and face recognition technology continues to ferment among all the girls in colleges and universities across the country, and it can narrow the gap between YY and QQ at least two or three million users every month. By the time of the 2005 New Year, Renren and YY users were estimated to have grown to as many as 80 or 90 million.

The closed beta of "Zhu Xian" ended in early November, and then successfully entered the internal testing period of more than a month, with 1 million registered players, and the number of online users soared to more than 400,000 at the same time, which means that during the peak period, almost half of the internal beta players are crazy in the game to level up and kill people and seize treasures. By December 20th, the closed beta was over, and after a week of maintenance, the archived data during the closed beta was completely deleted, and after reorganizing the server, the public beta officially began two days before Christmas.

The large-scale internal test made Zulong Studio, the developer of "Zhu Xian", find many technical problems, especially the inefficient online interaction of data and insufficient optimization. Because "Zhu Xian" adopts the setting of "personalized pinching" when creating characters, the amount of data interaction when the character model is displayed on the machines of other nearby players is relatively large.

This point is not obvious during the closed beta because of the lack of people and interaction. When it comes to the internal test, once you encounter siege battles and team battles, hundreds of players are gathered together, and the network speed is very stuck when it is displayed, because what kind of model everyone around you is, you have to transmit a considerable amount of data to the player client through the server side.

After discovering this problem, Zulong Studio held an emergency meeting and carried out more than a dozen rounds of hasty model data optimization, simplifying the personalized gradient level that needs to be pinched, for example, the original character's chest size was stepless in size, and now it is changed to ABCDEF six-speed cups. When the player pinched someone, it still looked like it was gradual, but in fact, he was deceived after pinching it, and the actual display was binned. The character's waist, leg thickness, and awl degree of face have also changed from stepless to binning.

At the same time, during the public beta, more model parameters were stuffed into the client and pre-stored on the user's local computer, which greatly optimized the amount of remote data that needs to be temporarily retrieved from the server when the game is running, at the cost of the client file size expanding from 4 more than 4 gigabytes in the internal test to more than 6 gigabytes.

But Gu Cheng insists that this route is the right one, and that an optimized online game should occupy as much hard disk space as possible to reduce the occupation of memory and internet speed. With the same effect, what can be done with in-memory cache textures is less likely to use the GPU's direct physical computing model.

This is a design concept and rules that almost everyone adheres to in later generations, but it is not well known in 2004, because now that 3D games are just rising, many developers who have set up ambitions to "improve on 3D models" are still running on the wrong path of squandering users' Internet speed, so that many games are too poorly optimized to run. The vibrant game represented by "World of Warcraft" does not pursue the ultimate in display, but only seeks to minimize the amount of interaction on the Internet speed.

Gu Cheng is well aware of the importance of "making users with poor Internet speed and computer run", so he wantonly "deceives consumers" in display optimization - do you think the chest size of the character you pinched has fifty levels? In fact, there are only 6 kinds of cups, and those data that are not very important are all confused by blinding consumers.

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Therefore, throughout November and early and mid-December, there were not many things that needed to be personally supervised by Gu Cheng.

During the month and a half, the time between his stay in China and his visit to Fuso was basically half the same. While preparing for the NICONICO video network, he also did publicity work for the movie "Sunset at the Third Chome", and did not hesitate to participate in several pre-screening interviews in person.

In particular, NHK TV was even fortunate to invite Gu Cheng to participate in a celebrity talk show, which made Gu Cheng a little relieved of his original intention of filming "Sunset in Three Chomes".

At the same time, in Huaxia and Dongyi, Gu Cheng also asked his subordinates to spend a lot of effort to help the General Administration send the film for review to ensure that the theater line did not drop the chain.

Liu Hui has been closely watched recently, because of the relationship with the promotion of several programs of Wu Yue Satellite TV, life is very difficult, and Gu Cheng has not embarrassed her anymore. The work of submitting the film for review in China and liaising with distributors is all pressed on the shoulders of Gao Da who helps with temporary cameos. Gao Dasong was reluctant to use his previous contacts in the circle, and invited people to drink and chat, and the specific details were difficult to describe for a while. The final result was fortunately not disgraced, ensuring that the film was officially released in theaters in China before the winter vacation.

As for the introduction of Dongyi, Gu Cheng didn't worry about it at all - Quan Shunyu's job is to do this kind of broker work, and his father Quan Yongtai has just become the deputy director of the Cultural Office in charge of foreign cultural exchanges this year. Help your own people introduce a film and pass a review, is that still a problem?

On December 24, Christmas Eve, "Sunset in Sanchome" premiered at the same time on more than 2,000 screens in major theaters in Fuso.

The distributor, Dongbao Pictures, has spared no effort in the promotion and distribution of the film in terms of Gu Cheng's brand appeal and the huge media resources in the Internet era behind him, as well as Cai Mingliang's Venice Film Festival Golden Lion Award BUFF and Eslite Film's high share of the distribution contract for this film.

Gu Cheng is not bad for money, and he doesn't expect this film to make money for him at all, he just wants to convey his artistic values and tie more creators to his distribution platform chariot - of course, this goal is absolutely impossible to achieve with just a "Sunset of the Three Chomes", this movie just paves the way for Gu's three views. In the future, Gu Cheng will have a more far-reaching and compelling layout.

encountered a local tyrant who had just bought more than a billion dollars of living money a few months ago, and Dongbao Pictures naturally would not help Gu Cheng save his budget.

However, the premiere on Christmas Eve is not the first time that this film has entered the field of vision of Fuso audiences. As early as half a month ago, on December 9th, Toho Pictures helped Gu Cheng select a limited number of cinemas in Tokyo, divided about 20 screens, and conducted a week-long "screening".

The so-called on-demand screening is a limited number of people in one place to try it out, mainly for the media and insiders. The screening will generally be more than half a month earlier than the ordinary public premiere, and the security check and scan when entering the venue will also be stricter, requiring that no mobile phone, DV and other camera equipment be carried to prevent the gun version from flowing out.

The advantage of screening is that some ordinary audiences can not understand the high-end literary films that are not very compelling, and they can be watched by professional film critics and media first, and then send articles to analyze and help the audience lay a tone of interpretation, which is more conducive to absorption. Of course, if the reputation of the screening is very good, it will also affect the audience's choice and have a good publicity effect on the film.

It's just that for Gu Cheng, he promised Dongbao Pictures to collect money to arrange additional screenings, not for publicity and box office, but because he heard that early screenings are conducive to catching up with next year's Fusang Film Academy Awards - in the Fusang film industry, there is also an award that imitates the model of the United States Film Academy Awards (Oscar), and also learns from the 3,000-person voting group and live TV awards, and takes all the sets that the Chinese people have played in Hollywood.

The Fuso Film Academy Awards are awarded on the first weekend of March every year, and all participating films must be films that have been released before mid-December of the previous year. In order to avoid that the release date of some films is too close to the award period, and the box office data and other market reactions have not yet had time to be counted.

Gu Cheng made a literary film that was not bad for money, so he naturally had to go for some awards, so he did not hesitate to pay for all the additional costs caused by the convenience of the competition. After the screening, a large number of Fuso's film critics and media also paid great attention to this film, thinking that it was really a good and profound work, with sharp angles and a spicy but warm narrative.

In the state of unanimous praise from the professional media, the decision of a large number of people who eat melons to watch the Christmas file was naturally affected for the first time, so "Sunset of Sanchome" got off to a good start at the beginning.

Fuso people do not celebrate the Spring Festival, but they will learn from the West to celebrate the New Year's holiday, from Christmas to New Year's Day. So on Christmas Eve, there was no need to go to work during the day, and more than 100,000 ordinary Fuso viewers walked into the cinema in the morning to watch the film. According to the ticket price of 800~1000 yen in 04/05, the box office directly reached 100 million yen in just one morning.

(Fuso's movie ticket prices are relatively expensive, generally exceeding 1,500 yen after entering the 3D era in 09, and converting to yuan after the depreciation of the yen also costs more than 80 yuan.) Before the 3D era, small productions of literary films were relatively cheap, but there were basically no movies under 600 yen. The exact fare depends on the location, and Tokyo is definitely a little more expensive. ）

By noon, the discussion about the revelation of many details of "Sunset in the Three Chomes" suddenly became a hot search entry for Yahoo Fuso. Other major online media and social platforms, including the "YY Network" from "Mi Guo Dad", the number of people who posted movie tickets and sent chicken soup experience suddenly increased.

This movie is destined to have a noisy opening.