Engine upgrades and art resource production are both necessary tasks, and there is no such thing as wasted effort.
Bai Ge's requirement is to complete the engine upgrade this week and develop temporary demo functions next week.
Only when Shi Ran explored the limits of the "Sail Event Book" within this week and confirmed that it could indeed meet the requirements of the demo effect, did he have time to stop the program for a week to do those pointless things that would be thrown away and not conducive to subsequent development. Work.
In the early hours of the morning, the two girls next to her were both sleepy and yawning again and again. Although Shi Ran had pumped herself full of chicken blood and felt like she could spin for three days and three nights, she had not forgotten her previous experience in Shengqian where overexertion affected her work status. .
After four o'clock, she found a lazy sofa in a deserted corner of the studio and settled in, counting sheep until she fell asleep.
When she woke up again, it was already ten o'clock in the morning. She, Zhu Zhizhi, and Miao Manman went downstairs to buy toiletries. They each packed up in a decent manner, then sat back down and continued to study the editor.
On Tuesday, Baige still didn't arrange any work for Shi Ran.
At the end of the whole day, Shi Ran had tried most of the functions of the "Sail Sail Event Book" and simultaneously wrote an instruction manual.
In the evening, Shi Ran planned to go home to rest and sharpen his knife before chopping wood. Lin Huan heard that Shi Ran would not get home until after eleven o'clock in the evening, so he made fermented egg drop soup in advance and prepared two small cakes for supper.
After Shi Ran came back, the two of them ate and chatted. Lin Huan said that "Heroes" would definitely not be able to withstand March. Today, the chief planner of the first R&D game came to the operations department to send a cake, and asked them to help them during the warm-up period of the game. Take a lot of trouble.
"The little cream cubes we are eating were sent by that person. He gave a lot more. Let us take them home for our family to eat." Lin Huan had only eaten half of his own cake, and his eyes were staring at Shi Ran. On the plate, "I was going to the toilet at that time. When I got back, all the cakes were taken away, leaving only two pieces. I couldn't bear to eat it all by myself, so I brought it back to eat with you."
Shi Ran was not that interested in the cake, so she pushed her share to Lin Huan.
Lin Huan said no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, but the fork had already been poked on the cake that Shi Ran had given up.
"'Heroes' won't last until March, was it Cheng Xiuyan who said that?" Shi Ran couldn't help but inquire about the status of old projects.
"Yeah." Lin Huan nodded and sighed heavily, "He said that there is no point in the operations department continuing to spend energy on "Heroes". The game can no longer be brought back to life. He asked me to prepare a copy of the game suspension The announcement copy will be released one month in advance.”
We are now preparing an announcement to stop the service, and it will be closed down in one month.
Shi Ran's eyes flashed back to how she and everyone on the team were so nervous before the launch of "Heroes". The sales on the first day exceeded expectations. Everyone was so happy and wanted to dance...
What Lin Huan said next, such as how a big liar could actually get a project opportunity from Lao Zhang, Shi Ran didn't take it to heart. She couldn't help but feel a little sad, and more of a regret.
People in the group of old colleagues probably haven't received the news yet, and Shi Ran doesn't intend to disturb everyone's thoughts.
On Wednesday morning, Baige finally called Shi Ran to his seat and discussed the content of the demo with her.
The opening animation is played first, and then there is a character creation process. However, "Monster Manual" did not have a character creation function before. All characters were directly brought out by entering commands into the project.
To develop a complete set of corner creation functions, no matter how hard you compress the construction period and work all night long, it will not take less than two days. In this way, there will definitely not be enough time for combat.
Bai Ge continued to describe his process of creating a character, which involves first choosing a camp and then establishing a character.
The three major logos of the three major camps are connected after the opening CG animation of the opposing camps to express the choice of one camp.
"There was no cursor click, just a sudden bang. A logo in the center of the screen was pressed hard, like a raised brick on the wall of an old castle, being pushed into the wall by some powerful force."
Bai Ge was full of passion when talking about his thoughts, and onomatopoeia and hand gestures all assisted his expression.
From Bai Ge's burning eyes, Shi Ran understood that he really liked his design.
"It's like a certain mechanism being activated. The sound effects should be more shocking, and the texture of the masonry should be clear enough?" She tried to dig deeper into the picture in Bai Ge's mind.
"Yes. But don't do anything that's outmoded and stretches the crotch when the wall is shattered. I'm still thinking about what content will follow after this mechanism is clicked... Should I choose a character image and a profession? How can I express myself more awesomely?
Son? Do you have any ideas?"
Shi Ran had no idea at first, but since Bai Ge asked, she gave herself three or four seconds to think about it, then stretched out her finger and pressed the brick in the ugly prototype picture of P on Bai Ge's computer screen.
He clicked on the block, "It's actually just a rough scale on a huge monster."
Bai Ge's eyes became brighter, "It's scales, and then what?"
"The scale mechanism awakens the sleeping monster. It wakes up, roars out of the ground, shakes off the dust and gravel, and is about to start a pedicure battle."
"The CG of fighting a giant monster?"
Bai Ge quickly clicked the mouse to find the CG animation of a tiny character fighting a giant monster. The huge difference in size, as if trimming the monster's toenails, created a shocking visual. This animation is the biggest highlight.
Bai Ge watched this one-minute-long animation in which the character was defeated by the monster and finally defeated three times. He laughed, "Yes, it is suitable as a novice guide to fight, as long as it is equipped with some skills.
Just icons and action controls.”
Shi Ran tried his best not to lead Bai Ge's ideas in the direction of functional development. "Although the creation process can demonstrate functions, it may not be effective for demos. It is better to express it with masonry scales with the camp LOGO."
It’s a concept of choosing a camp, and then going directly to the battle animation to bring out the feeling.”
Developing real functions and overturning them at the next stage makes Shi Ran feel sick just thinking about it.
Bai Ge nodded repeatedly, "Yes, the demo is just a general idea, there is no need to be so serious and develop a bunch of useless things. I'm out of my mind and always obsessed with the creation process. That thing is actually not particularly necessary.
In the end, it is not difficult to create a corner. It is just a basic function. If you have it, you can have it. If you don’t have it, it doesn’t mean that we are not strong enough.”
Shi Ran nodded, you are right.
Bai Ge was a little melancholy again, "Let's just say that sound effects are still very important. I'm not very satisfied with the sound effects of these CGs. It would be nice if there was a way to adjust them. The main thing is the feeling of various materials, which is always wrong.
I communicated with them eight hundred times before, but they just couldn't get my point across."
Shi Ran had a flash of inspiration, "I have a lot of sound effects libraries in my hand. When I was in college, my senior from the Travel Research Society bought commercially licensed ones, and they can still be used now."
"Are you so awesome?" Bai Ge was overjoyed, "Then do you know how to edit sound effects? Edit, do reverb, etc.?"
"It's not too professional, but I was responsible for the sound effects of the game demos I made in college." In order to reassure Bai Ge, Shi Ran gave the name of the tools she was proficient in, "Use Premiere to adjust CG sound effects, and Audition to do it.
For other game sound effects, it shouldn’t be a big problem to deal with a demo.”
"Then I have to add chicken drumsticks to you!" Bai Ge laughed, "Hey, where did Yang Cheng get such a treasure like you? You can wear many hats by yourself!"