Almost every one of us has played some games, but few of us know that the core technology of a game is the game's engine.

There are many engine technologies in the world, such as game engines, light and shadow rendering engines, modeling engines, and logic engines, and this kind of core engine technology has long been a big business with tens of billions of dollars.

As early as 2016, games designed with Unity engine tools reached 15 billion downloads, 59% of VR games use Unity tools, and 38% of the top 1,000 free games are developed based on Unity engines.

At present, Unity has occupied half of the console and PC game market, especially in the mobile game field, and 70% of mobile games use Unity's engine.

Unity's old rivals, called Epic Games, are currently the world's most advanced game engine, Unreal Engine IV.

Dawn, Gears of War, Kingdom Heart, Dead by Daylight, Ark, Weapons and Equipment, these game masterpieces all use the Unreal fourth-generation engine, and the recently very popular chicken mobile game, the exciting battlefield of PUBG, the engine used is also the fourth generation of Unreal.

Unreal Engine IV is free to use, but games built on Unreal Engine pay a usage fee of five percent of sales once they hit the market, and back in 2016, Unreal Engine's parent company, Epic Games, surpassed a staggering $10 billion in total revenue.

In addition, there are many world-famous rendering engines, RenderMan has a powerful Shader compiler, and anti-blur function, which is a powerful tool for Pixar Studios to conquer the world.

Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Toy Story, etc., all of the familiar Pixar animation masterpieces use the RenderMan rendering engine.

ental Ray's rendering is also world-class, but it's much easier and more efficient than RenderMan, and it has a smart renderer that can easily achieve reflections, refractions, caustics, global illumination, and other effects that are difficult to achieve with other renderers.

Star Wars prequels, Terminator 3, and the day after tomorrow, these global box office hits are all based on the ental Ray rendering engine.

Anyway, to sum up, we can come to the following conclusions, games and movies are not just a game about creativity and imagination, but also a feast of top-notch technology.

Without professional engine technology, the imagination will eventually be just a castle in the air, do you think Hollywood's strength is only creativity and scripts?

It's naïve.

Hollywood has almost all the most powerful rendering engines in the world, many engines are not sold at all, you can't buy them if you want to, and the gap between China and North America in the field of culture and entertainment is not only in terms of influence, but also in terms of technology.

Now that Xingchen Technology is here, this huge and ambitious Huaxia No. 1 Technology Group has brought their own Xingchen rendering engine to show to Tencent's friends, which directly stunned Boss Ma and several leaders of Tencent.

"This is the engine you made!?"

Brother Pony opened his mouth wide and reached out to find a box of cigarettes from his pocket, he was an old smoker, the kind of cigarette that had three boxes of cigarettes a day.

Brother Xiao Ma handed the cigarette to Luo Jia, Luo Jia shook his head slightly, indicating that he had quit, Brother Xiao Ma swallowed a mouthful of spit, restrained the addiction to smoking, and put the cigarette back.

Several bigwigs of Tencent,Shock,Judging from the demonstration animation,The level of the star engine,It seems to be above the four generations of Unreal,Especially the most difficult light and shadow processing in the rendering industry,The performance of the star engine is extremely amazing,The sunlight is projected into the depths of the cave,Forming an obvious junction between light and darkness,Dust drifts into the light one after another,Refracting a rainbow-like illusion。

Huaxia is already the world's largest movie box office and game market, the slogan of the rise of domestic movies and games, has been shouted for many years, and has made some achievements, the wandering earth has opened the era of Chinese science fiction, domestic chicken games are popular all over the world, foreigners also like to play.

However, the general public may not know that movies and games are not only cultural products, but also technological products.

The movie The Wandering Earth opened the era of domestic special effects, most of the special effects scenes are completed by domestic studios, this is the first time in the history of domestic films, whether it is the Great Wall or the Golden Armor, those movie special effects are done with the help of foreigners, only The Wandering Earth, 70% of the special effects come from local production.

But we also have to see that the engine used by the ontology special effects company is still imported, as for the game field, it is more dependent on foreign engine rendering technology, and recently everyone is looking forward to the new swordsman romance, so the use of Unreal fourth-generation engine as a selling point to promote, announcing players all over the world, we use advanced foreign engines, let's try it, it's cool.

Anyway, a company like Tencent that produces a large number of games every year, the engine is their lifeblood, and Xingchen Technology has brought a sharper engine technology than the fourth generation of Unreal, which is definitely a huge temptation for Tencent.

Luo Jia said lightly: "I want to point out that the Xingchen engine you see now is not the final version, before that, the Xingchen engine was just a product of an interest group within our company, entertaining ourselves in our spare time, and it was officially approved a week ago and became a key development project of the company." ”

What the?

A product of self-amusement?

Brother Xiao Ma is stupid, who can imagine that a few technical nerds of Xingchen Technology are messing around in their spare time, and they have made such an amazing thing, and the strength of the tough guy Tiantuan is too terrifying, right?

Luo Jia paused and said, "In addition, Xingchen is not a game engine, nor a light and shadow rendering engine, nor a modeling engine, but a general engine. ”

After that, Luo Jia sat down, but the bigwigs on Tencent's side pouted again and again, such an important engine system, but looking for a person who is engaged in theoretical mathematics to explain, took the wrong medicine, right?

Under the gaze of everyone, Jiang Dong slowly stood up, a young man less than thirty years old, due to the lack of exercise at home all the year round, his face was a little pale, with huge black-rimmed glasses, and his hair was a little messy.

Jiang Dong adheres to the style of the tough guy Tiantuan, and he doesn't talk much nonsense, he even saves himself from introducing himself, and directly starts to talk about technical theories.

"Tile-based deferred rendering, TBDR for short." Jiang Dong said, "This is the core solution of our rendering technology, which can optimize the three major drawbacks of the Deferred rendering method, the principle is to first divide the entire light intensity RT into many square areas, calculate which light sources are affected by each area, and save them, and then accumulate all the lights in a batch in each area, so as to reduce the number of frequent reads and writes to a pixel on the light intensity RT." ”

"The main idea of TBDR is to divide the screen into small tiles, and then find the bounding box of each tile according to these depths, and intersect the bounding box and light of each tile, so as to obtain the sequence of lights that have an effect on the tile."

"Finally, according to the obtained sequence, calculate the lighting effect of the tile where it is located, and determine the pixel of its effect..."

As soon as Jiang Dong's speech began, the technical bulls of Tencent on the other side were stupid, too professional, they really couldn't imagine that the otaku in front of them was actually engaged in theoretical mathematics in Xingchen Technology, at this level, it was enough to be the general manager of the technology department in Tencent, but in Xingchen Technology, Jiang Dong could only engage in theoretical mathematics, and in an instant, many Tencent executives had the intention of recruiting Jiang Dong.

The straight man of steel talks about technology, simple and rude, and the heads of the people present are about to explode, and then Jiang Dong finally made a summary, "To put it simply, our star engine can not only be used as the logic engine of the game, but also can do light and shadow special effects for the movie, based on the four major crossover technologies I just talked about, plus our second-generation artificial intelligence little star." ”

Papapa~

Xiao Ma and Tencent's executives applauded one after another, secretly admiring that Xingchen Technology is really awesome, what is the fourth generation of unreal, Xingchen Engine can not only drive games, but also be used to make movie special effects, with less resource scheduling and better results.

And this is only the beta version, Xingchen Technology's strong R&D force has entered, and is making the final product layout and optimization of Xingchen Engine, I believe that when the official version is launched, the game and movie special effects industry will definitely produce a huge sensation.

After Jiang Dong sat down, Luo Jia stood up and said with some regret: "Although Jiang Dong is engaged in theoretical mathematics and computational mathematics, he is the framework writer and system architect of this Xingchen Engine, I originally planned to let him lead the Xingchen Engine project team, but unfortunately he is not interested in it." ”

Oh!

I see!

The people on Tencent's side suddenly realized, no wonder a person who is engaged in mathematics is so awesome, it turns out that even the Xingchen engine framework is written by Jiang Dong, amazing, a cross-professional expert!

Jiang Dong said lightly: "Hehe, I still like to study mathematics, write frameworks, and study algorithms, but it's just my hobby, if I treat my hobby as a job, it will be putting the cart before the horse." ”

I'll go, this forced pretend, can score 120 points!

Brother Xiao Ma and Tencent's executives are simply crazy, I have long heard that Xingchen Technology lacks everything, that is, there is no shortage of geniuses, and now it seems to be true, even they are engaged in theoretical mathematics, they can write top rendering engine frameworks, is this a monster company?

Brother Xiao Ma suddenly felt that he was completely passive, Xingchen Technology's technology is really awesome, hardcore is really hardcore, Tencent even if it is crazy, it never wants to be the enemy of the tough guy Tiantuan, on the contrary, if you follow Xingchen Technology in the future, I am afraid there will be great benefits.

At this time, Luo Jia smiled, "I like to tell the truth, to be honest, Tencent is the most successful Internet company in the world, I personally appreciate it very much, but an upstream original website like the starting point can only be used as an IP supplier in your hands, which is too condescending." ”

"If I get the starting point, it will become a war planning site against the hegemony of Hollywood entertainment, a new starting point, the foundation of the future star universe and the Chinese hero system."

"Marvel and DC's superhero system VS the starting point of the Xianxia fantasy fantasy sci-fi system, everyone is the product of imagination, but who will kill the deer, I am really looking forward to it, what about Boss Ma?"

。 Nine Heavenly God Emperors