"The login interface doesn't look much better than the dance troupe, and the background textures are not as good as the dance troupe's hand-drawing."

"Wait...... No way? These background images on the login screen are also calculated with the physics engine? This action ...... This shake is so real! ”

As a demolition native and an Internet café owner, Liu Min has little culture. But I've been an Internet café owner for a few years, and I still have a lot of game-related expertise, after all, it's a guy who eats. Not long after he and Sun Hongda landed in the game, they saw the first extraordinary feature of "Hatsune Singer".

Although the login screen and the new character interface are not as good as the Korean version of Audition, every picture of Hatsune Singer seems to be polygonal modeling, and there is not a single plane map!

A game with a beautiful art style does not mean that its technology is strong, maybe it is just that the artists have a lot of work and work meticulously. However, if the physics engine is used well and the characters' movements are delicate and realistic, then it requires a very solid technique. Even if the engine is bought, it will cost hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars in licensing fees.

Needless to say, this game, in terms of animation calculations, is really solid.

Sun Hongda's quality is naturally much more professional than Liu Min's wild way. He studied computer science, and he is Lu Wenjun's senior, and now there is a faint tendency to work in the game division of Hatsune Network after graduation, so he naturally knows much more insider.

Looking at Liu Min's rustic look next to him, Sun Hongda proudly introduced: "This game, Hatsune Network has developed it at a great price. In March, I bought the source code of the Audition from a Korean. At the same time, we also bought the license to use and modify the original physics engine of AGEIA from AGEIA, and invested a lot of R&D efforts to completely remake it. ”

Liu Min obviously didn't understand. So much so that Sun Hongda was forced to pretend to be white, and he had to continue to explain.

"What? Haven't heard of AGEIA? That's a very awesome American physics engine company, it was established at the end of 02, it took more than two years, and on March 9 this year, the world's first hardware-accelerated physical processor Phys-X was announced at the 'Game Developers Forum'. There's also a companion game/animation physics engine. Hatsune is a leading user in this field. ”

A physics engine that appeared in March was used in a game released in July, which is already very fast, after all, the development cycle of a large game can often be a year or two. If Gu Mojie hadn't had the plug-in of Hatsune Niang, and a lot of use of existing resources to patchwork and graft, it would have been impossible to complete.

In contrast, as long as you compare it a little horizontally, you can see the advanced nature of this product: although World of Warcraft also landed in the Chinese market in the early summer of this year, the North American server was tested at the end of October of the previous year. When World of Warcraft came out. It's still 5 months before the appearance of the AGEIA physics engine. But now Warcraft has just been operating in China for three months, which has made many Internet café owners shout that they can't bear it, frequently change computers, and can only run low to medium quality. It's no wonder that the entry threshold for "Hatsune Singer" seems a bit precipitous.

In fact, the visual performance of "Hatsune Singer" and the physical realism of the action are far from what the AGEIA engine itself can do. The AGEIA engine is just a pretense for Gu Mojie to borrow, because his "Hatsune Niang" has a more awesome epoch-making engine core in the built-in "graphics master". It's just that it's quite difficult to transplant it, but even if you reveal a little bit of an advanced algorithm package that can fit with the hardware of this era. Even algorithm optimization is enough for netizens in 05 to be addicted.

If it weren't for that, Gu Mojie would not have chosen to cooperate with the newly debuted AGEIA engine. Because at this point in time in 05, among the three famous engine manufacturers in the future, AGEIA can only be regarded as a fledgling and has not yet been fully explored its potential. The engine company that dominates the high-end game market today is Havok.

It's not that Havok's technology is necessarily better than AGEIA's. It's just that Havok was three or four years earlier than AGEIA from the establishment of the company to the release of the engine, so the qualifications are older. In order to seek stability, many big-name game companies are unwilling to be guinea pigs of rising star new engine companies, and are naturally willing to pay several times the price. With the old engine of the old company.

Gu Mojie's saliva can be said to be a coincidence, and he drank it economically and beautifully.

……

Because there is no charge yet,So after entering the game,The new character can only be played with the default character model at the beginning.,You can only choose a man and a woman.,There are seven or eight character models under each gender.,From uncle、Handsome guy、Zhengtai、Old cadre,To Lori、Royal sister、Meng Niang、Otome...... There are one or two representative images.

In addition, there is also a function that allows players to manually pinch people, but at present, they can't use the image to enter online mode, so they can only pay to open this function after opening the charge in the future. However, for the sake of user experience, the pinched character can be used in the stand-alone practice mode.

Liu Min is not very good at pinching people and pinching clothes, so he directly met a male number with the face of an old cadre and entered the game.

The game has two major modules, one is the singing mode and the other is the hip-hop mode, the former focuses on music, and the latter focuses on dancing.

Liu Min instinctively felt that the singing mode was not a "rhythm master"? Press "1234" or "up, down, left, right" according to the cursor's prompts, and it will pass?

Only after playing did you realize that it was completely different things.

Hatsune Singer provides an onomatopoeic library of a variety of instruments, and the pitch and full keyboard keys are corresponding. To put it bluntly, this product is at least equivalent to the forced frame of a full-keyboard electronic organ that can simulate dozens of timbres. If you press it wrong, the sound that comes out will also be wrong, and it will be whatever it should be.

This product is enough for countless people who want to play musical instruments but can't afford to buy them, so that they can test the water at a very low cost.

But that's not enough, this product can also be accompanied by a synthesized female voice with electronic sound! As far as the technology of 05 years is concerned, it is simply against the sky!

Later, Yamaha's "Hatsune Miku" came out exactly two years later. Moreover, the Hatsune Miku that Yamaha had just made was only unique in terms of audio track synthesis, and the animation was really lackluster. Judging by the development cycle of the game. When Yamaha Corporation developed Hatsune Miku, it basically started game planning around the time of the advent of the AGEIA engine.

In other words, the game that was launched in 07 will only be the engine used in the planning stage of 05. The game engine was released two years before the game time, which is a normal development call cycle in the industry. And Sega and Yamaha collaborated. Further development of Hatsune's 3D holographic projection market will not be available until the beginning of '09, a year and a half later than the original version of Hatsune Miku.

Gu Mojie took out such an anti-heaven thing in 05, how could he not crush the scum of the dance troupe?

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The surprises don't stop there.

Liu Min played the singing mode for an hour heartily, and forgot the time, because the innovation and expansion of "Hatsune Singer" is too powerful, even if you don't want to play games, you just want to experience the innovation points of this product beyond the Audition Troupe, and it is impossible to work in a few days.

In the end, he remembered the purpose of his trip. I resisted the desire to continue fighting in the singing mode, retreated to the main menu, and entered the hip-hop mode.

The hip-hop mode is also full of conscience.

This product is not like the Audition, just press the up, down, left and right arrow keys to make sure you don't press the wrong button.

In the Audition Troupe, all the hip-hop movements are choreographed, and the full set is pressed to form a combo to form a combo. There will be more and more dazzling movements to pick up. And if you press it wrong, the action will come to an abrupt end.

But in Hatsune Singer. If you press the right one, you will press the right action, and if you press the wrong one, you will press the wrong action. And after only playing a few games, Liu Min found that the actions and button combinations in this game are related, and there will never be two obviously different sets of button combinations, which are matched with the same animation actions.

There is only one possibility. That is: the animation of the dance movements in this game is not like the Audition, which presets the animations that write hundreds, or at most thousands of fixed movements. The dance moves of this game are open source and editable!

In other words, there are infinite key combinations. There are endless possibilities for action! Although some of them look silly and not cool at first, it is better to jump out of the action with the right action.

However, as long as there is possibility, there will be an infinite number of players to dig into.

Why are sandbox open-world games so popular after all these years? Because these things can never be tired of playing, and there are always infinite possibilities for novelty.

From the glamorous "The Elder Scrolls", "Assassin's Creed", and "GTA5" to the humble "Don't Starve" and "Minecraft", as long as there are endless possibilities, the game can eventually sell well. Because they are no longer a simple game, they have risen to the height of a mod platform, and have risen to a platform where countless game anchors and self-media make a living and win-win.

However, will Hatsune Network Technology provide such a platform?

With such a question, Liu Min finally stopped the game in his hand and turned around to talk to Sun Hongda. However, when he saw Sun Hongda's computer screen, he suddenly realized that it seemed that he didn't need to ask that question.

Because Sun Hongda is already busy there, it seems that he is testing the waters and using the game of Hatsune Singer to make some money.

Liu Min couldn't help but ask, "What is this doing?" ”

Sun Hongda replied with a little disdain: "You haven't read the official website? Hatsune Network has announced a 'Hatsune Singer' modeling contest, which will be held before the end of the summer. Each player can save and submit their own 3D character models and 3D clothing models. At that time, Hatsune Network will officially provide online voting and evaluation. The first place in the list has a certain amount of prize money.

Even if you don't win the award, as long as you have a certain online investment support rate, you can also join the third-party open source material download library of Hatsune Singer Game. When the time comes, if other netizens think that the model you pinched is beautiful, they will pay to download it. Of course, because the model engine is provided by Hatsune, the game company will earn eighty percent of the revenue generated by this download, and the person who pinched the model can get two percent back - it can be exchanged for game ingots, or it can be sent to Alipay - provided you have an Alipay account. ”

Liu Min was completely dumbfounded: "Is this okay?" Not only is it free to play this game, but there is also money to be made? Will anyone really pay for the character models and clothes models in the game? ”

Sun Hongda had an expression of "what's so good about this, a big general and a little monster":

"What's that? Brother Liu, I won't hide it from you, I still have some gossip: in the future, all audio files arranged by Hatsune Singer can be shared and sold in the game store. If there are players who are tired of listening to those genuine HIGH dance songs that the official buys the copyright, there will be people who buy custom arrangements. ”

Liu Min couldn't sit still, and slapped his thigh: "Ma Dan!" No, I'll contact Brother Wu in Cyber City when I go back and ask him to replace all the 600 computers in my Internet café! Isn't it just a discrete graphics card for more than 1,000 yuan a piece? You can afford to burn! ”

In terms of the market potential of Warcraft and Hatsune Singer, the computer in the Internet café must be worth it! (To be continued.) )