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Chapter 333 World View (4000 Recommendation Tickets Plus Updates)
In the world view of "Ink and Water", the story takes place in the ancient times of China. There is an evil beast named Nightmare, which feeds on people's negative emotions such as fear, hatred, despair, and resentment, and grows stronger day by day.

Nightmare beasts are entrenched in Yangmeng City in the center of the world, causing everyone in the entire city to fall into a dream.At the same time, its power has spread to every corner of the whole world. Many originally gentle monsters in the whole world have become violent, and the world has become dangerous.

"Ink Cloud 2" inherits the world view of the original work, but adds many details.

The scholar's mission is still to defeat the nightmare beast, but he is no longer going head-to-head to fight the nightmare beast directly, because his strength is insufficient, he must first gain strength to make himself stronger.

He needs to travel around, obtain the power of the four holy beasts, and constantly weaken the power of the nightmare beasts, in order to finally defeat them.

The whole world is roughly composed of five parts, the center is earth, Yangmeng City and Nightmare Beast are in the central area, and the four areas in the east, west, north, south, and four holy beasts are Qinglong, Baihu, Suzaku, and Xuanwu. They are controlled by Nightmare Beast. The influence of the evil spirit became restless, and the scholar must obtain the power of the four holy beasts in order to fight the decisive battle with the nightmare beast.

The areas where the four holy beasts live are closely related to their attributes. For example, the Eastern Qinglong lives in the coastal area, where the seasons are like spring and there are frequent thunderstorms. In addition to the fishermen by the sea, there are also legendary sharks on the sea.

Merman is a magical race in Chinese mythology. They have a beautiful appearance, and they transform into fish-tailed human beings in the water, and handsome human beings on land.Sharks are good at weaving, and they can make dragon silk that does not get wet in water, and tears form beads. The ignition point of oil is extremely low, and one drop can burn for several days without extinguishing.

Because of these characteristics, many humans hunted and killed mermaids, sold them as slaves, flogged them day and night to obtain pearls, and even tortured them to death and squeezed their fat to make everlasting lamps.

To obtain the power of the Azure Dragon, the protagonist must resolve the hatred between humans and the merman, and gain the trust of the entire merman group, in order to successfully appease the Azure Dragon Sacred Beast.

The white tiger in the west belongs to gold, in the Kunlun Mountains.It is autumn all year round here, the autumnal equinox is bleak, and the fallen leaves are falling. There are various beast races in the mountains, including wolf demons and fox demons. The metallurgy skills of the beast races are the best in the world.

The Suzaku in the south belongs to fire, and the Yu tribe lives in the jungle at the foot of the volcano in the south. They are proficient in archery and can shoot arrows burning with flames. They use Suzaku as their totem, and they are not afraid of flames. The ability to regenerate.

Xuanwu in the north belongs to water, and the snow field in the extreme north can go north to the North Sea, where Xuanwu lives.This is the territory of the Nuwa tribe. The Nuwa tribe has a snake-tailed body and is good at divination.

The main plot of the game is that the protagonist travels all over the world and comes to the territory of the Merman, Yaozu, Yuzu, and Nuwa, completes their tasks, gains trust, and helps the four holy beasts get rid of the control of the nightmare beasts, and finally merges with the four holy beasts. The power to defeat the nightmare beast, so that the whole world back to life.

In addition, the game also has a very rich collection of elements.

It is rumored that in ancient times, there were saints of calligraphy and painting in the world.These two people traveled all over the world, and every time they went to a place, they had some insights, and they would leave their insights there.

What the master of painting leaves behind is the painting realm. After realizing the true meaning of the painting, he can enter the painting realm. After unlocking the painting realm, the scholar can improve his ink power.

What the book sage left behind were words one by one, which were scattered in different corners of the world, and there were a large number of them. After collecting them, they could increase the capacity of their brushes and scrolls.

There are 81 pictures and 1000 characters in the game, enough for players to find the world.

In addition to these, there are all kinds of magical creatures scattered throughout the world, such as strange beast Qiongqi. This kind of monster is distributed on remote hills in various places. It is as strong as a tiger, with two wings on its back, and its body is covered with Spiky, likes to eat people.

Bi Fang, a strange beast, looks like a crane, but has only one leg, with red markings, a blue body, and a white mouth. Wherever it goes, it often sparks strange fires.

Lu Shu, a strange animal, looks like a horse, but its head is white, its body stripes are like tigers, and its tail is red. It is extremely rare to encounter, and it is said to bring good luck.

All kinds of these strange beasts are distributed all over the world. If they can be killed, not only can they get a lot of precious materials, but they can also be made into medicine or food, which will have some special bonus effects.

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After the design concept draft of "Ink Cloud 2" was shown to everyone, the game immediately entered the preparatory stage of development.

The preparation is mainly two aspects: physics engine and art setting.

In "Ink Cloud 2", the player's degree of freedom will be very high. This game will add various unique systems like "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", such as throwing the fruit on the fire to roast it , After the object is still, hit it to release the accumulated power instantly. When you go out with metal products in a thunderstorm, you will be struck by lightning. After igniting the grass, an updraft will be generated...

All these settings belong to the category of the physics engine. These complex settings need repeated debugging to achieve a perfect balance between imagination and realism.

At the same time, because the game has a particularly high degree of freedom, the physics engine must take into account all aspects of influence.

For example, the painting skills of a scholar can erase a part of the object in the scene, such as a certain large rock in the scene, or erase a part of the object, such as cutting off a tree from the bottom.

Then after using the painting skills, the stagnant time will flow again, and the destroyed scene will change according to the physical rules. For example, the truncated tree will fall down, or the monster standing on the stone will fall on the ground due to the disappearance of the stone. on the ground.

These contents are a great improvement in playability, but it is bad news for the program team.

On the other hand, the art team needs to make a lot of art settings for many contents in "Ink and Cloud 2".

For example, the Four Holy Beasts, Alien Beasts, Merman, Yu Clan, etc. in the game are all original content.Although there are corresponding prototypes of such monsters in myths and legends, these images are too vague to be directly used in the game.

Take Xuanwu for example. In mythology, it is a combined image of a turtle and a snake, but what it looks like, including details such as its scales, shell, tail, etc., requires careful conception and design by the art team.

This "Ink and Cloud 2" is a very difficult task for the design team, program team and art team.

Zhong Ming himself was discussing with Lin Xiaoguang about the holographic projection display.

There are some holographic projection equipment on the market, but to really make it into a game-specific equipment, there are still many aspects to consider.

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