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In fact, Tianqing Niang is naturally lifeless, and even as an artificial intelligence, even if she tries her best to simulate an anthropomorphic image for her, her way of thinking is still very far away from "living".

It's just that the 3D animation is really well done. Although it is only a few simple actions, it subtly shows a lot of details, which makes people have a vivid feeling, which will make Lin Shu and Ju Mingfeng have such an illusion.

Bai Chiwen explained to Lin Shu: "The expression and demeanor are probably like this, and there is no way to be more detailed, because no matter how detailed it is, it must add the number jù of the judgment of the emotion, which will greatly increase the number of jù in the number of jù libraries." I have only set four kinds of emotions, namely positive feelings, negative emotions, neutral emotions and doubtful feelings......"

When he said this, he tuned out the corresponding feelings one by one and showed them to Lin Shu and Ju Mingfeng.

Tian Qingniang on the screen smiled for a while, wrinkled her little face for a while, looked at the people in front of the screen with pure eyes for a while, and bit her fingers for a while and her eyes widened with a puzzled expression......

Although there are only a few expressions, each one is cute and cute, lively and lively, which makes people love it.

To be honest, this animation is much better than Lin Shu expected. In his original expectation, at this time, the most that the average domestic artist could make was some imitation Japanese-style Q version model.

It's not that the Japanese model is not good-looking, but the Japanese model at this time is too proliferated, and the overly standardized cute design is not particularly impressive.

But the 3D version of Tianqing Niang does not give people such a feeling. Her overall design style does not follow the Japanese style, and the color style is much thicker than the bright and bright Japanese style, and the overall feeling is more three-dimensional than two-dimensional. The color composition is biased towards oil painting, but it is not as vivid as oil painting, but the special light and shadow effects make her look very textured from the skin to the clothing.

The overall image of 3D Tianqing Niang is more like a beautiful mixed-race Loli, and it is a Lori whose overall temperament makes people feel very comfortable. Her facial features are generally more oriental, but the bridge of the nose and eyes are slightly deeper, which is stunning at first sight.

This character may not be perfect, but it is extremely distinctive. And many times, among the various product designs, the most rare is this feature.

Lin Shu opened his mouth and asked, "...... Who made this design? ”

Bai Chiwen said: "Tan Yuan of our department. This is the shape design that she completed independently. We've had a lot of people submit designs before, but only this one of her submissions is particularly eye-catching. In fact, I think it would be more comfortable to match Tianqing Niang with a sugar gourd...... However, Brother Zhou disagreed. ”

Fortunately, he didn't agree, Lin Shu thought, otherwise Tianqing Niang would have to become a foodie. Every once in a while, let Tianqing Niang change a snack or something, Bai Chiwen can definitely do this.

Lin Shu silently remembered this girl named Tan Yuan, and thought that if there was a similar job in the future, he could reuse the other party, and then continued to listen to Bai Chiwen introduce the functions of the advanced version of Tianqing Niang.

Bai Chiwen said: "In order to prepare for the future engine program intelligent system, we have added new settings to the advanced version of Tianqing Niang. The advanced version of Tianqing Niang's character design itself is based on the virtual world as the background, and her self-positioning is the guide of the virtual world...... But in fact, she will be the game engine itself, so we combed through her body of knowledge and made her logical processing more in line with the rules of the engine than with the logic of reality. In this way, after cleaning up a part of the number jù, the system can also be more refined. ”

"In the engine, Tianqing Niang's intelligent system is mainly responsible for two parts, the first part is that she has to control the intelligent response of zhìnpc, and let each character react humanized but in line with the rules of the game within specific rules; The second part is to act as the guide character of the main program and interact with the player. So we need to design different rule channels for both cases. ”

Lin Shu nodded.

More than ten years later, it seems that many people think that the intelligent NPCs in virtual online games are independent and have their own personalities, and they will even be obsessed with a virtual character to the point of death.

Lin Shu didn't know how technology would develop hundreds of thousands of years from now, but in fact, by the time he started making virtual online games, any intelligent NPC was still just a surface channel of the artificial intelligence system. They share the same database and a set of logical rules as the main system, but they will show different personalities according to the persona.

But even so, the number of characters is still just a regular number of jù, and the number of characters alone cannot form a perfect anthropomorphic intelligence, but unfortunately many players simply refuse to understand this.

It's like knowing that many idols on TV are acted, but there are countless little boys and girls who come and go, and they are so fascinated that they come back and go. The same is true for virtual idols, even if many people know that the other party is just a program, they still inevitably treat the other party as a real object and invest in it.

So later, some popular characters of well-known online games were separated, and naïve fans thought that the other party's number jù was saved, but the reality was actually that the number jù of the game's main system was copied, and after eliminating some irrelevant number jù, it was re-presented in front of everyone with a specific character setting.

In a program, no matter how many NPCs appear, those NPCs are nothing more than a form of the main program. But even if it is an NPC that uses the same set of personality rules, just because its appearance and personality are different, there will be completely different evaluations among players, and Lin Shu also feels helpless in this regard.

Later, some game companies will try to create a very perfect character design in order to circle money more vigorously in the future, but unfortunately many players will not buy it as long as the character is perfect.

Of course, that's another thing.

After that, it's summer vacation.

During the summer vacation, Lin Shu finally looked a little like the boss of Xingze, and he would come to Xingze to work every day. Not only that, but he also took the initiative to participate in the development of the new engine.

A large part of the company had only heard that the actual owners of the company were two children, or had seen Lin Shu and Ju Mingfeng one or two times. But because the actual manager is Zheng Fangcheng on weekdays, he didn't have any special reaction to these things.

Most of them are just slandering the rich second generation in their hearts.

However, when Lin Shu and Ju Mingfeng really appeared in the company for a long time and began to work like all the others, many people's hearts were almost broken.

I'm rubbing, this peew is typing code!? This child has to be elevated in the chair, does he really know how to type code? Mom, isn't this speed really random typing, he almost doesn't need to stop to think and look at the rules of module design, the speed of this finger is as fast as a typist, okay...... And so on and so forth.

But no matter what, Lin Shu didn't care what everyone thought, and always kept himself very calm and worked every minute and second.

Although Zhou Fan had already understood Lin Shu's skills before, he was still limited after all. And when Lin Shuzhen really reflected his actual ability, Zhou Fan felt stunned and confused.

He is different from Du Sitong and Zheng Fangcheng, who have always taken it for granted, and even different from Jing He, who has a more introverted personality and can't say anything, Zhou Fan doesn't believe that there are geniuses born to know in the world, and always insists that knowledge and technology need to be accumulated.

So he was a little surprised and concerned about Lin Shu's ability.

He thinks that Lin Shu's appearance is very abnormal.

However, this doubt compares with the young people around him who "cross", "reborn", "borrow the corpse to return the soul", and "thousand-year-old demon...... And so on and so on is quite not worth mentioning. Zhou Fan listened to the chatter of his employees for a few days, but he heard a string of black lines every day, but suddenly felt that Lin Shu's situation was not exaggerated to the point of being so mysterious.

Although Lin Shu was just a child, after he joined the research and development, the work of Yang Fan's group began to advance by leaps and bounds.

Not only has the work efficiency improved, but Lin Shu has even searched for bugs and solved bugs faster than the average staff in the technical department. For many problems, he always scans the relevant code a little and can quickly find out where the problem is.

Zhou Fan naturally felt more and more surprised, but Lin Shu didn't care very much. Even if he felt that he was abnormal, as long as Zhou Fan did not have the evidence of the opportunity, it was impossible to make a judgment that was too absurd.

And Lin Shu actually didn't have any tangible evidence to arrest Zhou Fan.

In this case, the development of a new engine is progressing at a rapid pace almost every day. In fact, to be honest, Lin Shu's experience and skill proficiency in game production may be higher than anyone else in the entire company, so he can quickly respond to many bugs and design loopholes, and quickly find solutions.

These are the skills and strengths that he himself has really accumulated in the first week of his life.

In this case, the prototype of the engine of the new system has been established in a very efficient way, and the basic main elements, mod articulation, mission and story system have been determined, only the combat system and the emotional interaction system have not yet been decided.

At present, the planning team has different opinions on these two aspects - as an ARPG game, should we join the emotional interaction system, and if so, should we do what kind of process? What to do with the combat system? Should I lock the target type, or not target the target type? Is it to do the more popular in the world at present, or to do the more popular domestic judgment of the existence of the enemy?

092：

There is a great deal of controversy within the planning team about whether to add an emotional interaction system to the ARPG system. Some people say that the emotional interaction system of the future engine is a very good selling point, and it would be foolish to abandon this part. However, some people said that the emotional interaction system of the previous version of the future engine was too complex to be suitable for a clean, adventure-oriented ARPG-style class.

Both sides insisted on their own ideas, and the planning department and the technical department quarreled every day, arguing with each other on the basis of reasoning from the history of domestic and foreign games this year, and then arguing with the many online games and stand-alone games launched this year, arguing about which format is more popular and in line with the preferences of mainstream players.

In order to stop the arguments between the two sides that burst out from time to time, Lin Shu finally decided to gather the two departments to hold a special meeting to settle the two disputes.

He informed the matter a day in advance, and when everyone heard it, they exchanged their heads and ears, and then began to discuss. Perhaps because of the time set for the discussion, the atmosphere in the office was unexpectedly calm that day, and no one was arguing about the issue anymore.

But there was more deliberation and discussion among the people. In the afternoon of the same day, after Lin Shu and Ju Mingfeng's work came to an end, they continued to discuss their future plans in the office, mainly discussing whether to take the initiative to develop some hardware equipment - in fact, Lin Shu and Ju Mingfeng both thought that they would have to find hardware from software sooner or later. In the past ten years, most of the virtual network software companies will inevitably be a combination of software and hardware, because most of the companies that cannot master the optical brain and biological brain technology will eventually become pure software vendors, and will be excluded from the market of virtual online games and virtual reality.

And now the question is - when to intervene?

The rise of virtual reality technology also came after Lin Shu went to college. And the popularization is even later, Lin Shu is now going to school step by step to learn technology, and starting a company after graduation, he has enough time to catch up with the boom of virtual reality technology.

However, Lin Shu obviously has some corresponding key technologies at hand, and if it is put into use, it will definitely accelerate the development of the entire technology, and there is no reason to cherish himself.

The only thing that needs to be considered is when to make a move. It's early, and the consumption is too great. It's too late to get the first shot.

The two discussed the situation for a while, and then saw that the time was about the same, and then decided to go out and find something to eat. As a result, in addition to the corridor, I found that the planning department and the technical department were still brightly lit.

It is not unusual for Lin Shu that the lights of the customer service department and the technical department are bright, because these two departments are often passive or active overtime departments. Overtime in the planning department is relatively rare - most of them are used to bringing their work back to work.

Lin Shu was a little curious, so he walked to the planning department and took a look, and saw that Tan Yuan and Zhu Weiwei, the only two girls in the technical department, were with two men and women in the planning department, and they were talking about something around the square table, and they kept searching for something with their hands open, and the other girl on the other side kept remembering in a notebook.

Lin Shu looked at the time and found that it was already half past six. Even in the customer service department, only one person was left behind at this time, and everyone else went to eat. He thought about it, but he didn't disturb the other party, so he went out to eat with Ju Mingfeng.

As a result, after the meeting began the next day, Lin Shu was stunned to see a large number of game discs brought in by the otaku in the technical department, and then put on their laptops. The otaku girls in the planning department didn't even twitch their brows, but they each put down a thick or thin stack of materials on the table, and then hugged their chests and waited.

Lin Shu sat on the right side of the conference table and said, "The setting of the new engine seems to be very controversial at the moment, so I hope to listen to the opinions of both sides and then decide the direction of the design." At today's meeting, no matter what opinions you have, you can put them forward as much as you like, and then I will consider the opinions of both sides to decide on the final direction. ”

"There are two main issues that need to be discussed at present, one is whether the ARPG version of the future engine should be added to the emotional interaction system; The second is what form the combat system intends to take. ”

"Let's start with the first question - whether to join the emotional interaction system. Speaking of which, I know that you all have your own ideas this time, so we will not sit in this meeting according to departments, but according to our respective positions. It also makes it easier for me to see where you stand. Those who support joining the Emotional Interaction System should sit on the left, and those who do not support it should sit on the right. I'll give you a moment to adjust your seats. ”

Then Lin Shu gave everyone three minutes to change seats.

As a result, this exchange had an unexpected result - Zhou Fan, as the head of the technical department, ran directly to the left, while Bai Miao usually had the attitude that I want Su Shuang and I love Su Shuang, but at this time he sat on the right.

And most of their colleagues in the department are the opposite choice of them.

Of course, there are the same. There was also a male staff member in the planning department, and two female staff members followed Bai Miao to the opposite side, while the only two female staff members in the technical department ran to the camp of the planning department instead.

All in all, the position is quite confusing. Bai Chiwen glanced at Bai Miao, who was sitting beside him, and muttered in a low voice: "Be careful that Sister Du turns around and gives you little shoes to wear......

As a result, Bai Miao gently knocked his head with Wen Jiàn and said, "Sitong is not so stingy. We are fighting for our own will and thoughts, and we have no personal feelings. ”

Bai Chiwen didn't believe her, and muttered softly again: "Which tendon is wrong with you?" Don't you usually like to kill all sides and hug left and right in the game? ”

Bai Miao said: "I like Su Shuang, I like Su Shuang, but I have watched a lot of pure Su Shuang's things, and that's how it really is...... Our game, I don't want to be made like that. ”

Bai Chiwen was surprised and said, "Why? ”

Bai Miao said: "Because everything is too good, it can't move people's hearts." Didn't I say, how can everything in this world be as you wish? It's because it's rare that some people can't forget it. A game has one cool point, and two cool points will make people feel cool. 100 200 cool points...... It's just going to make people feel bored. It's the same with when we make games, if we want to develop it, we will do it, and if we do role-playing, we will do role-playing. The selling points of the two are not the same at all, isn't it looking for death if you want to please left and right? ”

Bai Chiwen was immediately impressed by her and said, "I didn't expect you to have such knowledge, sister." ”

Why does that sound so wrong? Bai Miao heard the black line on his face, and he couldn't tell whether Bai Chiwen was praising himself or hurting himself, and after a while, he gritted his teeth and said, "Are you looking for death?" ”

Bai Chiwen immediately stuck out his tongue and grimaced, and closed his mouth.

But when the meeting officially opened, the offensive of the two sides was far less relaxed and understated than Bai Miao.

At the beginning, when Lin Shu asked who started talking first, the two sides still pushed each other. As a result, Jing He's personality was direct, and he was impatient to continue to push, so after Du Sitong pushed back again, he didn't continue, but began to bring a large stack of game discs.

They were all game discs with outer box packaging, and Jing He asked people to distribute the game discs one by one, and then Lin Shu saw the names of these discs.

Warriors of the Three Kingdoms series, Shadow of the Tomb Raider series, Resident Evil series, Fallout series, Diablo series...... All of them are well-known action RPGs.

The programmer who distributed the games asked, "How many people have played these games?" ”

Everyone said that they had played some.

The programmer said, "So may I ask, if you add one or more emotional lines to these games, would you like to?" ”

There was a moment of silence in the conference room, and then Zhou Fan said: "Of course I don't want to, because this kind of game itself is positioned to fight happily...... But, Xiao Li, is all we have to do is a game like this? ”

Xiao Li paused.

Zhou Fan said: "I think we all agree that we want to make ARPG games, but not just ARPG games. In contrast, I think we're making a more all-round game, rather than just relying on the fun of fighting to make people vent. ”

"I'll admit that you're giving some very classic examples, but they're carefully filtered and selected, otherwise why don't you cite the Witcher series, and other glorious games like Taiko Rishi, Three Kingdoms, and Age of Discovery? Don't cite games such as Dragon Age, Fables of Gods and Ghosts? ”

"Take "Dragon Age" and "Fable" as examples, these two games actually put a lot of effort into the emotional system, although the direction of the effort is different, but the attitude is the same. Both games open up the free love options of the protagonists, and even the options for gay love very trendy. However, "Dragon Age" has a stronger plot, while "Fable of Gods and Ghosts" has a higher degree of freedom. ”

"However, no matter which work it is, it is actually a very classic and highly regarded work. Far from being a deduct from them, the emotional system is a plus. So in essence, Xiao Li, your example is biased and one-sided, and cannot be used as an argument. ”

After listening to Zhou Fan, Bai Miao looked around and found that the people next to him were either frowning and thinking, or whispering something, and Xiao Li's lips squirmed, but he couldn't speak for a while, so he bit his lip and said: "Manager Zhou, in fact, in my opinion, the emotional system is not equal to the emotional line. I think a good story, like a good novel, should have a fixed plot direction in itself, and should not be ambiguous. ”

"For example, the Legend of Sword and Fairy series, the classics of Xianyi and Xiansi, actually lie in its immutability and tragedy."