Making a video of a historical map looks very easy - just collect a bunch of historical maps of China and put together maps from different periods.

But in fact, different versions of the map have different styles and sizes, and it is impossible to make a smooth and coherent animation directly with these maps with different "painting styles".

Therefore, these historical maps must be remade.

Just like the animation zuò, first draw some "original paintings" with the same painting style. Then, insert a large number of intermediate paintings between the original paintings to make the picture move smoothly.

According to the way of TV animation production, 12 maps are drawn per second, 72o pictures per minute, and 4o minutes is over 288oo pictures.

Even the animation of the historical map can cut corners compared to other animations, because the historical map is static for most of the period, and only a few periods will change.

Even so, it is conservatively estimated that there are more than 100 original paintings, and thousands of middle paintings. Such a workload, even if it is handed over to a professional animation company, is relatively heavy. Not to mention letting Wang Qinian, Hao Yi, Du Jie, and Li Xie do it.

On this issue, Wang Qinian asked for advice on Shuimu Tsinghua BBs, in which he posted more than 100 maps of ancient Chinese history, and also cooperated with text descriptions, which attracted the interest of many BBs netizens on the Internet.

"I think it's enough to make zuò in the traditional way of animation! No money, no one, unless you are willing to spend a few years of hard work, you can't do it! Id is a netizen who "failed Dugu's marriage proposal" said.

"Is there a more feasible and efficient way to make zuò?" Wang Qinian asked.

"Yes, use the computer to make zuò! Just like the game map in Microsoft's "Age of Empires" game, it is easy to make a 'game map editor' first, and then use the map editor to open it! Dugu failed to propose and replied in the post.

That's right!

Like a real-time strategy game!

When Wang Qinian heard this, he couldn't help but feel cheerful, in fact, the "Detailed Version of Chinese Historical Map" on the Internet in 2o14 was made with a map editor. It can only be done with software to save time.

But......

Wang Qinian and the others studied film, not computers. I know that I can do it with a map editor program, but who knows how to program and who has the ability to make a map editor?

"Actually, I can do it! If you can let me join the team, I can program you and make a 'map editor', but the copyright of the 'map editor' is my personal and only licensed to you! Dugu suddenly raised the unsuccessful marriage proposal.

"Good! If you can make it, you are more than welcome to join our team! Wang Qinian replied very happily. And online, the better the time and place to meet with it.

……

Afternoon of January 15.

Wang Qinian and others were at the gate of Beiying School, and they saw a master with an online ID of "Dugu Failed to Propose Marriage".

"You're Dugu, aren't you?" Wang Qinian asked with a smile.

"Yes, are you that Wang Qinian?" Lonely smiled and said, "Why do you want to make a historical map video?" ”

"Because, we want to make a student work that is different and has a certain meaning." Wang Qinian explained, "Making a video of China's historical map is a low-cost work with the lowest cost and the best idea we can think of!"

"If you have ideas, I support you!" Dugu patted Wang Qinian on the shoulder and said.

Wang Qinian then led him to his bedroom to show him the progress of their work—Hao Yi and Du Jie were working together to color the high-definition satellite map and mark it as an ancient map of different historical periods.

The satellite map with the same specifications is used to make corrections, so as to "have the same style". It's just that modern satellite maps can't show the changes in the landscape. For example, the Yellow River was diverted, and the geographical location of the Yellow River in ancient and modern times was different, so everyone could not make it. But this is also something that can't be helped.,Everyone is not a large team with state funding.,It's already very serious to be able to do the error between the original reference map of the school team and the map redrawn by everyone.。

Now, the "original drawing" of the map has been completed is more than 1o pieces. In total, there are more than 1oo original drawings to complete, and the rest is the animation.

However, if the animation were done manually, the amount of work would be too great.

Therefore, everyone is looking forward to Dugu, a master who can write a "map editor", but they are looking forward to it!

Dugu failed to propose marriage, tall and thin, with a pimple face, and the lenses of his myopic glasses were as thick as wine bottles, and it was estimated that he was highly myopic of more than 800 degrees. Naturally, it is very bad in appearance, but the key is talent.

Dugu's marriage proposal failed, and his real name is Lin Xiaoshu.

According to Lin Xiaoshu's own statement, he is a senior student in the Department of Computer Science at Tsinghua University, and his grades are needless to say, and he can often get scholarships at Tsinghua University, which can be regarded as a top student.

Lin Xiaoshu usually likes to play PC games, and due to his personality, he prefers "real-time strategy games". Because of the influence of "Age of Empires", which just came out this year, Lin Xiaoshu also wants to make a domestic even strategy game. To make a real-time strategy game, it is inevitable to make a program related to the "map editor".

In this regard, Wang Qinian can only "admire", players of real-time strategy games are generally the most picky hardcore players, and they are picky about game balance, background and playability.

However, if you can endure loneliness and make a real-time strategy game first, and then make a zuò RPG game according to the setting of a real-time strategy game, this will also make the RPG game more in-depth and can attract long-term hardcore players.

For example, Blizzard, which later became famous, had spent a lot of time on real-time strategy games like "Warcraft" before opening "World of Warcraft". With real-time strategy games as the foundation, "World of Warcraft" has very good innate conditions in terms of world view, setting, etc., and has the quality of a high-quality game.

Later, many game companies directly opened RPG games, instead of making real-time strategy games like Blizzard, first deliberating the world view, number balance, economy and other settings. As a result, most of these hastily launched pRg games have become fast food games, and players will soon get bored.

After Lin Xiaoshu joined, Wang Qinian's four-person team became a five-person team, and Lin Xiaoshu served as a computer technical consultant, responsible for making a "map editor".

Of course, Lin Xiaoshu opened a "map editor" for Wang Qinian, so that he could complete the production of the video of "Historical Map of China".

But Wang Qinian also agreed to Lin Xiaoshu's condition - to help him make real-time strategy games.

The game's materials, world view, art, etc., Lin Xiaoshu could not complete it independently. And Wang Qinian's team has no shortage of art and imagination. In essence, the cooperation between the two sides is also to take what they need, and the complementarity is very strong!

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