There is a dream called football

The famous game company EA launches a football game Fifa every year. Since it is a new year game, it is of course unrealistic to expect big updates, and this game must be promoted by teams and players.

Generally, the cover must be of top stars, such as Kaká, and the animations before the game are of the top teams in various leagues, including Arsenal.

This time, EA asked Arsenal to do a face modeling activity.

This is a dual activity. The first is to collect model data for the game, and the other is to take the opportunity to promote it.

As we all know, to make game characters realistic, you must find someone to make a face model, and then use a dynamic tracking system to collect it.

This is also the reason why the characters in many domestic games have stiff expressions. They just don’t have the money to find face models, or they cut corners.

Wenger took EA staff member Rajar to the team's entertainment center, and then Wenger handed the players over to him.

This person looks like an Indian at first glance. The number of Indians working in the software industry in the United States is the largest, surpassing the number of employees in the United States.

Rajar wears glasses and looks like an engineer, and there is a cameraman next to him.

"Don't be nervous, everyone. Just like usual, our program will be posted on EA's official website. What everyone wants to see is life-like footage."

"I brought the equipment, and today you can see how a football game is born."

Many people are interested in games, but very few people know how games are developed.

After setting up the computer equipment, Rajar smiled and said, "Okay, I need someone to help."

Robin van Persie volunteered.

"Okay, Robin, come on."

"First we need to collect data."

Rajal put small dots on Van Persie's face to capture his expressions.

"Okay, follow my instructions."

"First of all, laugh."

Van Persie laughed too, and everyone was amused, because Van Persie laughed almost as much as he cried.

"No, be more natural."

In fact, everyone is like this. When you fake smile, it feels like crying. If you don’t believe it, you can try it yourself.

After trying many times, Van Persie finally got a lot better, at least he looked like he was smiling when he smiled.

"Happy, ecstatic after you scored a goal."

Van Persie raised his eyebrows and laughed on the spot. After all, we are not professionals. Even professional actors can laugh, let alone this situation.

"It's okay, do it again."

"Regret, regret of missed opportunity."

"Complain to the referee."

After collecting more than a dozen facial data, Rajar smiled and said: "Okay, this time we are doing a simple one. In fact, we need to collect the whole body data, but those are the ones in the database. We are just doing a demonstration.

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"Then there is the most important thing for every game company, the game engine. This is the core secret of the company."

Players are the most interested in this. Everyone has heard of game engines, but they don’t seem to understand them. Is it the same as a car engine? Is it the core?

Someone asked a question.

"Then please take a look at this game engine. What do you think?"

"It's like a piece of software."

"Yes, this is a software. It's similar to the PS you use, but it's professional. Take a look and I'll put the data I just collected into it."

Immediately, a little person appeared on the screen, looking like Van Persie, and by clicking the mouse, he could make expressions such as joy, anger, sorrow, joy, etc.

"This is the first and most important thing, the modeling of the game, and then the characters can be placed in the scene."

Everyone basically understands that "Van Persie" has been built, and the next step is to put him on the court.

The whole process doesn't seem complicated, but think about it, this is just one person, and there are so many players in the game.

Of course, many unknown players can just use popular faces, and there is no need to model them. But if there are at least hundreds of famous players, it is also quite a problem.

"This is just the simplest. Each subsequent action requires data collection, and then production. Therefore, it is conceivable that the FIFA series only makes a little progress every year. However, if we look at it in five years,

The FIFA series has made great progress, and our current sports system is more reasonable."

"Of course, this requires investment and collection. We are looking for Kaka and Ronaldinho to be models, which are very expensive."

Everyone nodded. The investment behind a game is amazing. After Rajar said this, he invited everyone to play the game.

"I invite everyone to play the game with me, and then we can talk about the shortcomings of this game. You can say anything."

In fact, FIFA at this time has not evolved to be as fun as it was later, and it has a lot of shortcomings.

Someone soon said: "The passing in this game is so accurate, everyone is like Barcelona. It's fun, but it's too fake."

This is indeed the case. In real situations, passing errors are the most common thing, but in the game, this is almost impossible. Every through ball can basically be passed in place. This is fake.

Rajar chuckled, "This is not easy to achieve. You must know that many people who play games are amateurs. If the pass error rate is high, then they will be unhappy."

This is true. Many people play games just to have fun. If they can't score a goal after playing for an hour, then many people may choose to give up.

At this time, Li Qiao made a suggestion.

"When I play FIFA, I always feel that athletes are like floating on the grass when running, without a solid feeling. Is this difficult to achieve?"

In this regard, Rajar thought about it very seriously, "It should be improved. Your opinion is very good and will be helpful to us."

At this time, someone else said: "Can you give some discounts to old customers? For example, customers like me buy every year, but in fact they don't make much progress. I can just upgrade. This happens in many games."

Rajar was happy about this, "This is the company's sales strategy, and football is played once a year. This is also the reality, but I think we should distinguish the needs of old users and new users."

In the end, Rajar teamed up with Arsenal players for a three-on-three PK. This was also the most enjoyable part. In fact, when playing games, who needs to understand the complicated technologies and processes behind them? As a Wanjia, the most important thing is to have fun.

Just fine.

Having fun is the most important need for many players, so football games will probably never reach the level of real games. It’s not that the technology can’t achieve it, but that players will feel unhappy.