Behind the scenes technology company

Chapter 129 Interface Testing
It can be said that since the beginning of autumn, Wei Lai has been looking forward to what the final product of the first stage of the Breathing Shadow Generator will look like.Day and night of research and development has finally ushered in the final test.

It is said to be the final test, but it is actually the finished product display after the integration of various technologies. After all, from the finished product to the external promotion, it still needs to be unanimously decided by the company's top management. Although Wei Lai has this authority to force the launch, but let more people provide More opinions would be a nice thing too.

The same room, the same computer screen, the difference is that more responsible persons appeared in the room.In fact, Wei Lai knew the results of this test well. Unlike the previous research and development, Wei Lai basically participated in the whole process of this research and development, and witnessed the process of the software gradually forming a graphical interface from a line of code.

For a huge and complex software, the development cycle of less than one quarter seems so short.Without the predecessor of the Breathing Shadow Generator, the development progress of the Breathing Shadow Generator could not have been completed so quickly.

The software logo has not yet been determined, the software icon on the desktop is the logo of the behind-the-scenes technology, Wei Lai said to everyone: "Do you have any ideas for the software logo?"

"Writing codes is fine, but designing logos is not good. Why don't you ask the UI design team?" the person in charge of the algorithm said to Wei Lai.

"I don't know, why not just use the company's logo. As far as the current software's functions are concerned, it fits well with the company's logo."

"Let's take a look together first." Wei Lai thought about it and said to everyone.

After opening the software, the appearance of the finished software is displayed in front of everyone.What is different from other [-]D software is that the start interface does not look like a software for design, but more like a game interface. The four interactive options in the lower right corner of the interface are create, load, setup and exit.

The background animation is not recorded and played, but simulated in real time. The initial interface shows the movement of the blue sky and white clouds, as well as the soil, vegetation, mountains and rocks. With the changes of various parameters, various objects in the screen also appear changed to varying degrees.

The start interface is actually not simple. At least when the computing power is sufficient, it allows real-time simulation of animations. Wei Lai did not rush to select various interactive options, but watched the 5-minute startup animation.

The extent to which the software's environment simulation is achieved is firstly small enough and large enough. Only small enough elements to fill in various parameters can make the entire environment more realistic for everyone.Only when it is large enough can users fill in the details and finally gather them into a whole.

However, such a starting interface does not satisfy Wei Lai. Although the changes of objects have a taste of environmental evolution over time, but in a modern society where the pace of life is quite fast, it is not right for everyone to stare at the entire interface in a daze. A good way.What's more, the blue sky, white clouds, mountains and rivers did not highlight the aspect of software that can be used for industrial design at all.

"The idea is fine, but the parameters we can simulate now are not enough to describe the whole world so realistically. If this can really simulate the evolution of the sun, moon, stars and everything in the world, then each of us will become a god." Wei Lai Said to the crowd.

"Environment and industry must have. At least in terms of publicity, we need more gimmicks. We can only see the changes of mountains and rivers and the changes of day and night. This is the beauty of time, but we cannot see the artificially carved trace."

The person in charge of the interface team said to Wei Lai: "But the database materials we can use now only have basic natural resource materials."

"The problem is that the effect of this display is not good. The random and controllable parameters of each object are different. Don't you think it's a little weird to change at the same time? Others think it's a horror game at first impression. The changes in the environment are mainly set in the natural world. Within the scope of change, at the same time put our own Suzaku in the middle."

"Also look at how long our products can survive in the natural environment we built. After starting the animation, I will specialize it independently. Every time I update or release a new product, I can pull it in and try it out. The premise is that The quality of our products is excellent. As for the distant and near views of the blue sky, white clouds, mountains and rivers, each update also needs to give users a sense of freshness."

"Do as I say for the first edition, and I'll hold a meeting with other departments to talk about it later." Wei Lai said to the crowd.

Click Create, and you will officially enter the main interface of the software. The clean and tidy screen does not list all the complicated options on the interface at the first time. What appears is a spherical frame and a cube frame. At the same time, the following There are also small characters showing curved surfaces and flat surfaces.The three simple options above the interface are the three interactive options of design, view and simulation.

This is a view of the frame structure. The black space occupies the entire computer screen. The patterns and text appearing in the lower left corner allow people to intuitively select the most basic geometry to start their own modeling journey.

In fact, the design scheme of hiding various functions is the mode adopted by most complex and various software, which can display the workspace to the user in the most intuitive way, after all, the screen size is limited.However, the use of hidden multi-functions requires users to click and search layer by layer, which is not convenient for users. This is also an unchangeable fact in the two-dimensional system.

Especially for a software like this that is almost involved in the three-dimensional field, the realization of various functions also requires multi-level display.Wei Lai is still a little regretful about this situation. After all, there is no way to break through the two-dimensional limit. The total amount of information we can observe and obtain is the screen size.

For a [-]D design software, at least users should be able to immerse themselves in it and unleash their creativity.Instead of letting users face complicated models and content, or a blank space, they have no way to start.

The initial interface of the frame view and smooth guidance allow users to explore the various functions of the software layer by layer like a player.In addition to the frame view, the view mode also has the three-view mode that every company uses, the rendering view mode.In order to display the objects inside the scene more clearly and comprehensively, the R&D team also added the overall view mode and the basic unit view mode to facilitate size adjustment.

From the perspective of view, we can basically understand the entire industrial design process, and we can also more comprehensively observe the objects we create. There is another key point in the entire software, which is the environment simulation that appears in the startup screen.

(End of this chapter)