entertainment threesome

A brand-new projector was placed on the long table in the conference room, and it was already connected to the laptop nearby. Director Xu sat behind the laptop, skillfully operating the keyboard and mouse to display the pictures, documents, tables and other content that needed to be displayed one by one.

On the slide screen.

The four planners sat across from Chief Xu, each holding a pen in their hand, and kept copying the contents on the slide screen as their own minutes of the meeting.

"Have the planning documents for the equipment system and prop system been completed?" Chief Xu looked at Cao System and asked.

System Cao nodded and said, "It's almost done."

"When can you give it to me?" Xu Zhuce asked.

"No more than two hours." System Cao replied affirmatively.

"Are you going to follow the art department today? How is the progress of the art resources for 'Man' and 'Devil'?" Director Xu nodded and immediately changed the topic.

According to the setting of this game tentatively named "Legend of Six Paths Online", the six paths are divided into the divine path, the demon spirit path, the earthly immortal path, the bodhisattva path, the human path, and the netherworld path. In fact, these are the six races that players can play.

, or six professions, plus the distinction between men and women, there are a total of twelve protagonist models.

Of course, as a demo version, it is not necessary to complete the art resources of all the protagonists. According to the production outline plan, only two parts, the human male and the monster female, need to be completed for display. This is what Director Xu refers to as "man" and "witch".

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In fact, according to the planned production progress, the corresponding resources of these twelve protagonists will be released in demo, alpha, and beta (i.e., demonstration version, internal beta version and public beta version. Internal beta is sometimes divided into closed internal beta.

and open internal testing) will be added gradually in three stages, and will not be fully completed until the official version.

Scheduling the completion of art resources for such a long time is, on the one hand, to save money and manpower investment in the early stage of game development, and on the other hand, it is also more convenient to adjust the art style based on the feedback from each stage of testing, so this is also a common practice in game development.

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"I asked Min Zhumei this morning," Cao System turned the notebook forward, looked at the summary in the notebook and reported in an orderly manner, "The original painting, bust, avatar, model and texture of the 'man' have been completed.

, the skeletal movements are still being adjusted; the original painting, bust, avatar, and model of 'The Witch' have been completed, and textures will be made later, so the skeletal movements have not yet started. Now the action team is waiting for the progress of the model team, so Min Zhumei arranged for them

Let’s do other things for now.”

In the Holy Grail Studio, the art department is divided into two major parts: 2D and 3D. The 2D is subdivided into the original painting group and the UI group, which are mainly responsible for original character paintings, avatars, busts, original scene paintings, scale maps and various interfaces;

3D is subdivided into model group, action group and special effects group. The model group builds colorless character models and scene models according to the original character paintings and scene original paintings. The process of coloring the models is called skin mapping, which is responsible for transforming the characters or scenes.

From a two-dimensional concept drawing to a three-dimensional static model, the action group is responsible for adding "skeletons" to the static model so that it can complete various actions according to the needs of the game; as for the special effects group, it is relatively simple, just add something like an explosion.

, the literal meaning of special visual effects such as flashes.

Therefore, the original painting, model and skeleton have a strict relationship. You cannot start modeling without completing the original painting, and you cannot start the skeleton work without a model.

"The original painting team is making good progress. You have to urge the model team and action team twice more to tell Min Zhumei that the work related to 'The Demon Girl' is the highest priority." Xu Zhuce nodded and tapped the keyboard to record the progress reported by Cao's system.

In the progress table of the notebook, and then continued to ask, "Where is the program? When will the test server be set up?"

"This weekend at the latest." System Cao said simply.

"It will take three days..." Director Xu twitched his lips, "Have you mentioned which systems can be tested by then?"

System Cao continued to flip through a page of the record book, lowered his head and said: "Uh... At present, it seems that only the scene system is partially completed. You can test the character walking in four directions on the map and hitting the teleportation point. The front end of the mission system has been completed as the back end.

It’s not finished yet, the back-end of the NPC system has been turned into a front-end.”

Generally speaking, a certain system of an online game can actually be tested if the front-end is completed but the back-end is not finished. However, it can only simply test the interaction between input devices such as keyboard and mouse and the game, for example

Opening or closing the interface has almost no practical meaning, because all these actions do not transmit data to the backend for verification, calculation and storage, nor can any real data be read from the backend. In other words, it is just a facade project.

In the case of "the back-end has finished the front-end", the front-end cannot perform corresponding operations at all, and there is no possibility of testing at all.

Moreover, after the front and back ends are completed independently, a joint debugging process must be carried out to become a complete system and have practical testing significance.

"It's too slow. Tell Li Zhucheng and Gong Zhucheng that it was me." Xu Zhuce shook his head and threw up the long hair that was hanging down from his forehead to cover his eyes. "Tell them not to just be busy with their own affairs and coordinate more with their subordinates."

People's progress, task system and NPC system must complete the front-end and back-end joint debugging before the weekend. No matter what time they have to get it these days, otherwise they will come to the company to work overtime on the weekend. The planning department must test these three systems next Monday, which is called

Li Zhucheng and Gong Zhucheng are left to their own devices."

Speaking domineering words in a neither light nor serious tone, Xu Zhuce stared at the Cao system across from him without expression. When he saw the other party nodding sincerely and immediately transcribing it quickly in the notebook, he nodded with satisfaction, and then looked at the other three

A planned move.

Although Liu Kewei and She Guangua did not respond to the conversation just now, they both looked at themselves intently. After all, the work just mentioned was not directly related to them, so it was normal not to speak or record... However,

What happened to the new copywriter and planner next to them?

He looked down at his notebook, but in his hand... he was spinning the pen?

In fact, Xu Zhuce didn't know that the reason why the homely fat man looked down at the notebook was because he had been at home for too long, so he was really not used to looking at others directly.

As for pen-turning, that was a habit he had when he was a student. Whenever he looked down at extracurricular books in class, in order not to be misunderstood by the teacher as dozing off, he would turn a pen around in his hand.

Even if the system planning work just mentioned has nothing to do with your copywriting, do you think that this is an unimportant elective course in college with your careless appearance? Or is it the style of a veteran who has been involved in society too much?

Xu Zhuce felt angry and snorted softly.

After hearing this, the fat man raised his head in confusion. As soon as his eyes came into contact with Chief Xu's, he immediately lowered his head and continued to stare at his notebook seriously, as if trying to spot a flower.

Witnessing the entire interaction between Chief Xu and Fatty Zhai in just a few seconds, Liu Kewei quietly bumped Fatty Zhai with his elbow at a hidden angle. Fatty Zhai was stunned, and finally put down the pen in his hand and stopped.

Playing around.

But he still lowered his head and stared at his record book...

"What about the level, how is the completion progress of the scene map?" Xu Zhuce turned his attention to Liu Kewei and asked.

"The original map has completed the main city scene of Chang'an City, the outdoor scene of Daoxiang Village, and the dungeon scene of the Imperial City Water Prison. As for the map model, only Chang'an City has been completed, Daoxiang Village is still a little behind, and the Imperial City Water Prison has not yet been completed." Liu Kewei

He didn't check the record book. He paused for a moment and added without waiting for Chief Xu to ask, "According to what the art department said, these three map models can be submitted this weekend."

"Let the model team complete 'The Witch' first, and the map can be completed without being so urgent." Director Xu thought for a moment and continued, "If the second map cannot be completed this week and we want to test the collision teleportation point function, let the programmer

Copy two maps of Chang'an and use them temporarily."

"Okay, I will tell them." Liu Kewei nodded simply.

"In the early stages of research and development, the priority of system planning is relatively high. At present, Old Liu can handle the progress of the checkpoint alone." Chief Xu turned to look at She checkpoint, "Xiao She, please help Lao Cao with a few tasks during this period.

A system document?"

"Okay." She Guanquan nodded readily and agreed, "Which ones will you give me?"

"I don't care about that. You can ask Lao Cao after the meeting, and the two of you can coordinate privately." Xu Zhuce said lightly, "Lao Cao, you make up your own mind. I'll go over Xiao She's document for you first after it comes out.

, if you have no problem after reading it, then come to me."

"OK, I understand." System Cao said with a smile.

Director Xu stared at the copywriter who was still looking down at his notebook with a slightly complicated mood. The work this guy was doing included plot outline, world background, chronicle, lv1 → lv30 tasks, etc. Not only were they completed in advance, but also

I also made an additional "Xianxia Baojian System Planning Document" that looks pretty good, and I seem to have started writing plot dialogues in the past few days?

The design of "Xian Xia Bao Jian" is not a big problem, but after all, it is the icing on the cake, not a necessary component of this project...

"Duan Shanshan." Chief Xu was still used to watching the other person talk about work, and could judge some of the other person's emotions and reactions from his expression, so he called out the fat man's name a little impatiently, forcing the other person to look up and look directly at him, "You

I read the "Xian Xia Bao Jian", it can be considered as an element to add color to the game, it can be done, but the priority must be ranked last."

The fat man nodded, obediently indicating that he had no objection, and then continued to lower his head and stare at his record book.

Please, don't you have a three-dimensional perspective diagram in your notebook?

"Do you have any questions?" Chief Xu planned to end the meeting.

At this time, for the first time since entering the conference room until now, Fatty Zhai actively raised his head.

"Well, I have a little idea about the dialogue system..."

The tune is not high, but it is firm.