Reborn to create a virtual world

In fact, Tian Qingniang is naturally lifeless, and even as an artificial intelligence, even if she tries her best to simulate an anthropomorphic image for her, her way of thinking is still very far from "living".

It's just that the 3D animation is really good.Although it was just a few simple movements, it subtly showed many details, which made people feel vivid, which made Lin Shu and Ju Mingfeng have such an illusion.

Bai Chiwen explained to Lin Shu: "The expression and demeanor are about like this, and I can't make it more detailed, because if it is more detailed, the data of emotional judgment must be added, which will greatly increase the amount of data in the database. I only set four emotions. , that is, positive emotions, negative emotions, neutral emotions and doubtful emotions..."

When he said this, he called out the corresponding emotional expressions one by one and showed them to Lin Shu and Ju Mingfeng.

Tian Qingniang on the screen smiled for a while, wrinkled her small face for a while, looked at the people in front of the screen with pure eyes for a while, and bit her fingers and widened her eyes for a while showing a puzzled expression...

Although there are only a few expressions, each of them is cute and lively, which makes people love it.

To be honest, this animation is much better than Lin Shu expected.In his original expectation, at this time, the most common artists in China can make are some Japanese-style Q-version models.

It’s not that the Japanese-style models are not good-looking, but that the Japanese-style models are too widespread at this time, and the overly standardized cute designs are not particularly impressive.

But the 3D version of Tian Qingniang does not give people such a feeling.Her overall design style does not follow the Japanese manga style, the color style is much thicker than the clear and bright Japanese manga style, and the overall feeling is more three-dimensional than Two-dimensional.The color composition is biased towards oil painting, but it is not as bright as oil painting, but the special light and shadow effects make her look very textured from skin to clothing.

The overall image of 3D Tianqing Niang is more like a beautiful mixed-race loli, and she is a loli whose overall temperament makes people feel very comfortable.Her facial features are generally soft oriental, but the bridge of the nose and eyes are slightly darker, which is amazing at first sight.

This character design may not be perfect, but it is extremely distinctive.In many cases, among all kinds of product designs, this feature is the most rare.

Lin Shu then asked: "...Who made this shape design?"

Bai Chiwen said: "Tan Yuan of our department. This is the appearance design completed by her independently. We have asked many people to submit design proposals before, but only this version submitted by her is particularly eye-catching. In fact, I think if it is given to God It feels more like Qingniang paired with candied haws...but Brother Zhou disagrees."

Fortunately, he disagreed, Lin Shu thought, otherwise Tian Qingniang would have to become a foodie.Asking Tian Qingniang to change snacks every once in a while, Bai Chiwen can definitely do this.

Lin Shu silently remembered this girl named Tan Yuan, thinking that she could reuse her for similar jobs in the future, and then continued to listen to Bai Chiwen's introduction of the advanced version of Tianqingniang's functions.

Bai Chiwen said: "In order to prepare for the future intelligent system of the engine program, we have added new settings to the advanced version of Tian Qingniang. The advanced version of Tian Qingniang's character design itself uses the virtual world as the background, Her self-positioning is the guide of the virtual world... But in fact, she will also be the game engine itself, so we sorted out her knowledge system to make her logic processing more in line with the rules of the engine, rather than the logic of reality .In this way, after cleaning up part of the data, the system can be more refined."

"In the engine, Tian Qingniang's intelligent system is mainly responsible for two parts. The first part is to control the NPC's intelligent response, and make each character behave humanly but in line with the rules of the game within specific rules. reaction; the second part is to communicate and interact with the player as the guiding character of the main program. So we need to design different rule channels for the two situations.”

Lin Shu nodded.

More than ten years later, it seems that many people think that the intelligent NPCs in virtual online games are independent data streams with their own personalities, and they may even become obsessed with a certain virtual character to death.

Lin Shu didn't know how the technology would develop hundreds of thousands of years later, but in fact, when he started to make virtual online games, any intelligent NPC was just a channel for the artificial intelligence system.They share a database and a set of logic rules with the main system, but they will show different personalities according to the personality.

But even so, the character data flow is still nothing more than a rule of data. Personality data alone cannot form a perfect anthropomorphic intelligence. Unfortunately, many players simply refuse to understand this.

It's like knowing that many of the idols on TV are performances, but there are still countless little boys and girls going on and on, fascinated to death.The same is true for virtual idols. Even though many people know that the other party is just a program, they still cannot help but treat the other party as a real object and invest in them.

So later some popular characters of well-known online games were separated, naive fans thought that the other party's data flow was saved, but the reality is that the data of the game's main system was copied, and after removing some irrelevant data, Reappear in front of everyone with a specific personality setting.

In a program, no matter how many NPPCs appear, it is just a manifestation of the main program.But even if it is an NPC with the same set of personality rules, just because of its different appearance and design, players will have completely different evaluations. Lin Shu also feels very helpless in this regard.

Later, in order to collect more money in the future, some game companies will try to create an extremely perfect character design. Unfortunately, many players will not buy it as long as the character design is perfect. Carrots and vegetables have their own love, let alone "idols" this kind of thing.

Of course this is another matter.

Then came the summer vacation.

During the summer vacation, Lin Shu finally looked like the boss of Xingze, and came to work in Xingze every day.Not only that, he also took the initiative to participate in the entire development of the new engine.

A large part of the company had only heard that the actual owners of the company were two children, or met Lin Shu and Ju Mingfeng once or twice.But because the actual manager is Zheng Fangcheng on weekdays, he didn't have any special reaction to these things.

Most of them just slander the rich second generation in their hearts.

However, when Lin Shu and Ju Mingfeng really appeared in the company for a long time and began to work like everyone else, many people's hearts almost collapsed.

Let me wipe, this Douding is knocking codes! ?This guy has to sit on a chair with a raised seat, can he really type code?Damn, isn't this speed just typing casually? He almost doesn't need to stop to think and look at the module design rules. The speed of this finger is as fast as a typist, okay... Wait, wait, wait.

But no matter what, Lin Shu didn't pay attention to what everyone thought, and kept working very calmly.

Although Zhou Fan knew Lin Shu's ability before, it was still limited after all.And when Lin Shu really showed his actual ability, Zhou Fan felt astonished and confused.

He is different from Du Sitong and Zheng Fangcheng, who have always taken it for granted, and even Jing He, who is more introverted and can't say anything. Zhou Fan doesn't believe that there are geniuses who are born with knowledge, and he always insists on knowledge and technology. All need to be accumulated.

So he was quite surprised and concerned about Lin Shu's ability.

He thought Lin Shu's behavior was abnormal.

However, this point of doubt is not worth mentioning when compared with the strange rumors of "time travel", "rebirth", "resurrection", "thousand-year-old demon"... and so on by the young people around.Zhou Fan listened to the gossip of his employees for a few days, but he heard a series of black lines every day, but suddenly felt that Lin Shu's situation was not exaggerated to the point of fantasy.

Although Lin Shu is only a child, after he joined the R&D team, the work of Yang Fan's group began to advance by leaps and bounds.

Not only has the work efficiency been improved, but Lin Shu's speed of searching for and solving bugs is also easier and faster than that of ordinary employees in the technical department.For many problems, he always scans the relevant code a little bit, and he can quickly find out where the problem occurs.

Zhou Fan was naturally more surprised, but Lin Shu didn't care much.Even if he thinks he's abnormal, as long as Zhou Fan doesn't have evidence of timing, it's impossible to make an absurd judgment.

But Lin Shu actually didn't have any tangible evidence for Zhou Fan to arrest.

In this case, the development of new engines is progressing rapidly almost every day.In fact, to be honest, Lin Shu's experience and proficiency in game production may be higher than that of anyone in the entire company, so he can quickly react to many bugs and design loopholes, and quickly find solutions .

These are the skills and advantages that he himself has actually accumulated in the first week of his life.

In this case, the engine prototype of the new system has been established in a very efficient way, and the basic main elements, module connection methods, tasks and plot systems have been determined. Only the combat system and the emotional interaction system are currently still Can't make a decision.

At present, the planning team has different opinions on these two aspects-as an ARPG game, should we add an emotional interaction system, and if so, to what extent?What about the combat system?Should it be targeted or untargeted?Is it the non-existence of friend-or-foe status that is more popular in the world, or the more popular domestic friend-or-foe status?

There is a lot of controversy within the planning team over whether to add an emotional interaction system to the ARPG system.Some people said that the emotional interaction system of the future engine is a very good selling point, and it is very stupid to abandon this part.However, some people said that the emotional interaction system of the first version of the future engine was too complicated, and it was not suitable for a clean and neat ARPG-style occupation with adventure and combat as the main line.

Both sides insist on their own ideas very much. The planning department and the technical department are arguing with each other every day. They try their best to fight all the way from this year's domestic and foreign game history, and they argue about the many online games and stand-alone games that will be launched this year. The format is more popular and in line with the preferences of mainstream players.

In order to stop the sparking disputes between the two parties from time to time, Lin Shu finally decided to gather the two departments to hold a special meeting to settle the two disputes.

He notified this matter one day in advance, and after everyone heard it, they whispered to each other, and then began to discuss.Perhaps because of the set time for discussion, the atmosphere in the office was unexpectedly peaceful that day, and no one was arguing about this issue.

But there are more discussions and discussions among the people.That afternoon, after Lin Shu and Ju Mingfeng finished their work, they continued to discuss their future plans in the office, mainly discussing whether to take the initiative to develop some hardware equipment—in fact, both Lin Shu and Ju Mingfeng I think that sooner or later, I will have to explore from software to hardware.After nearly ten years, most virtual network software companies must integrate software and hardware, because companies that cannot master optical brain and biological brain technology will eventually become pure software companies and will be excluded from the virtual world. Online games and virtual reality are outside the market.

And now the question is – when to step in?

The rise of virtual reality technology also came after Lin Shu went to college.The popularization is even later. Lin Shu now goes to school step by step to learn technology, and starts a company after graduation. She has enough time to catch up with the booming period of virtual reality technology.

However, Lin Shu obviously has some corresponding key technologies at hand. If they are put into use, the development of the entire technology will definitely be accelerated, so there is no reason to treasure them.

The only thing that needs to be considered is when to make a move.It's too early and too much consumption.It was too late to seize the opportunity.

The two discussed the situation, and after seeing that the time was about the same, they decided to go out to find something to eat.As a result, except for the corridor, they found that both the planning department and the technical department were still brightly lit.

It is no surprise to Lin Shu that the lights of the customer service department and the technical department are brightly lit, because these two departments often work overtime passively or actively.Overtime work in the planning department is relatively rare - most of them are used to taking their work home to do it.

Lin Shu was a little curious, so she went to the planning department to take a look, and saw Tan Yuan and Zhu Weiwei, the only two girls in the technical department, and two men and women from the planning department, talking about something around the square table , and kept searching for something with her mobile phone on, while another girl on the other side kept writing in a notebook.

Lin Shu looked at the time and found that it was past 06:30.Even in the customer service department, there is only one person staying behind at this time, and everyone else has gone to eat.After thinking about it, he didn't disturb the other party, so he went out to eat with Ju Mingfeng.

As a result, after the meeting started the next day, Lin Shu was astonished to see the nerds from the technical department bring in a large pile of game discs, and then set up his laptop.The housewives in the planning department didn't even twitch their brows, they just put down a thick or thin stack of materials on the table, and then waited with arms crossed.

Lin Shu sat on the right side in front of the conference table, and said: "The setting of the new engine seems to be very controversial at present, so I hope to listen to the opinions of both sides, and then decide the direction of the design. At today's meeting, no matter whether everyone If you have any opinions, you can put them forward as much as you want, and then I will refer to the opinions of both parties to decide the final direction."

"There are two main issues that need to be discussed at present. One is whether the ARPG version of the future engine should add an emotional interaction system; the other is what form the combat system intends to adopt."

"Let's discuss the first question—whether or not to join the emotional interaction system. Speaking of which, I know you all should have your own ideas this time, so we don't sit by department in this meeting, we sit according to our respective positions This will also make it easier for me to see your positions. Those who support joining the emotional interaction system, please sit on the left, and those who do not support sit on the right. I will give you a little time, and everyone adjust their seats."

Then Lin Shu gave everyone 3 minutes to exchange seats.

As a result, this exchange had an unexpected result—Zhou Fan, as the head of the technical department, ran directly to the left, while Bai Miao usually had the attitude of "I love Su Shuang if I want Su Shuang", but now she sat down on her buttocks. to the right.

Most of their colleagues in the department have the opposite choice to them.

Of course there are also the same.There was also a male employee and two female employees in the planning department who followed Bai Miao to the opposite side, while the only two female employees in the technical department ran to the camp of the planning department instead.

All in all this position is rather confusing.Bai Chiwen glanced at Bai Miao who was sitting next to him, and muttered in a low voice: "Be careful that Sister Du will give you small shoes to wear..."

In the end, Bai Miao tapped his head with the document and said, "Sitong is not so stingy. We are fighting for our own will and thoughts, and we have no personal feelings."

Bai Chiwen didn't believe her, and muttered softly again: "What's wrong with you? Don't you usually like to kill all directions and hug left and right in games?"

Bai Miao said: "I like Su Shuang because I like Su Shuang, but I watch and play pure Su Shuang stuff a lot, so it's just like that... I don't want our game to be made like that."

Only then was Bai Chiwen surprised, and said, "Why?"

Bai Miao said: "Because everything goes well, it can't touch people's hearts. I didn't say, how can everything in this world go well? It's because it's rare that people can't forget it. A game has a cool point. , Two cool points will make people feel cool. One hundred, two hundred cool points... will only make people feel bored. The same is true when we make games. If you want to develop, do it, and do role-playing Role-playing. The selling points of the two are fundamentally different, isn’t it courting death if you want to please the left and right?”

Bai Chiwen immediately looked at her with admiration and said, "I didn't expect you to have such insight."

Why does this sound so wrong?Bai Miao's face was full of black lines when he heard this, and he didn't know whether Bai Chiwen was praising himself or hurting himself. After a long while, he gritted his teeth and said, "Are you looking for death?"

Bai Chiwen immediately stuck out his tongue, made a grimace, and closed his mouth.

But when the meeting officially started, the offensive of both sides was far less relaxed and understated than Bai Miao.

At the beginning, when Lin Shu asked who would start talking first, the two sides gave way to each other.In the end, Jing He's character was still straightforward, and he continued to give way impatiently, so after Du Sitong gave way again, he didn't continue, but started to have a large stack of game discs brought up.

They were all game discs packed in outer boxes. Jing He asked people to distribute the game discs one by one, and then Lin Shu saw the names of these discs.

"Dynasty Warriors" series, "Tomb Raider" series, "Resident Evil" series, "Radiation" series, "Diablo" series...all are well-known action role-playing games.

The programmer who distributed the games asked, "How many people have played the games in here?"

Everyone expressed that they had played some games.

The programmer said: "Then, if you add one or several emotional lines that can be captured in these games, would you be willing?"

There was a moment of silence in the conference room, and then Zhou Fan said: "Of course I don't want to, because this kind of game itself is positioned to fight freely... But, Xiao Li, is this the only game we want to do?"

Xiao Li paused for a moment.

Zhou Fan said: "I think we all have a consensus that what we want to do is an ARPG type of game, but not just an ARPG type of game. As a comparison, I think what we are making is a more comprehensive game. Instead of just relying on the excitement of fighting as a game for people to vent."

"I admit that what you cited are some very classic examples, but they are carefully filtered and selected examples, otherwise why don't you mention the "Witcher" series and other glorious games such as "Tai Ge Li Zhi Biography" ", "Three Kingdoms" and "The Age of Discovery"? Don't mention games such as "Dragon Age" and "Fables"?"

"Take "Dragon Age" and "Fable" as an example. In fact, these two games have put a lot of effort into the emotional system. Although the direction of effort is different, the attitude is the same. The two games open It provides the protagonist with free love choices, and even opens up the option of homosexual love in a very trendy way. However, "Dragon Age" has a stronger plot, while "Fable" has a higher degree of freedom."

"However, no matter which work it is, it is actually a very classic and highly respected work. The emotional system is not a deduction item for them, but a bonus item. So in essence, your example, Xiao Li, is biased and one-sided. Yes, it cannot be used as an argument."

After hearing Zhou Fan's words, Bai Miao looked around and found that the people next to him were either frowning in thought, or whispering something, but Xiao Li's lips squirmed, but he couldn't speak for a while, so he bit it lips, and said: "Manager Zhou, in fact, in my opinion, the emotional system is not equal to the emotional line. I think a good story, like a good novel, should have a fixed plot direction itself, and should not be ambiguous. of."

"For example, the Legend of Sword and Fairy series, the classics of Xianyi and Xiansi, actually lie in their unchangeable and tragic nature."