This Is Not a Bug but a Game Feature-Chapter 264 - 178: Why Does Every Protagonist Have a Little Sister?

Chapter 264: Chapter 178: Why Does Every Protagonist Have a Little Sister?

January eighth, Chen Ba left.

He lounged around in his hometown for half a month, originally wanting to stay a few more days, leave after the Lantern Festival, but Old Chen said there was no rice at home, couldn’t afford to keep an idler.

Alright then!

Old Chen’s words were full of disdain, making Chen Ba feel half chilled, so he had to carry all sorts of cured meats and sausages, driving away under Old Chen’s ’hurry up and leave’ gaze.

He drove on the highway for over ten hours.

When Chen Ba returned to Jiangning, he was dead tired, didn’t even want to move lying on the bed.

"Ba, do you want a wife?"

"Oh?!"

Upon hearing this, Chen Ba hurriedly got up from the bed, joyfully asked, "Where? Quickly, bring her here so I can see!"

"Here she is!"

Lu held up the 60-series graphics card in his hand, showing off: "Old Huang just sent your new wife, a young maiden not yet on sale!"

Chen Ba: "..."

He stared at the graphics card in Lu’s hand, then looked at the proud Lu, veins popping on his forehead.

This isn’t the wife he wanted!

Damn Lu, daring to tease him with a lousy graphics card, making him happy for nothing, it seems his salary is still too high.

"Take it away, don’t try to fool me with these things, I’m not interested in graphic card wives!"

Waving his hand, indicating he wasn’t interested, Chen Ba then asked, "What about the thing I asked you to investigate, how did it go?"

"Well..."

Seeing Ba’s extremely cold attitude towards the new bride, Lu quickly put it away, preparing to keep it for himself, lest someone else snatch it away.

Upon hearing Ba’s inquiry, he gathered his thoughts, then explained: "There aren’t many teams in the country with this technical capability, who have also participated in AAA game production. I contacted them all."

"What did they say?"

"Their attitude was okay, they also said that if we need anything, just ask, if we give money, they can help us."

On saying this, Lu scratched his head and added: "But that motion capture team is indifferent to our acquisition, only accepting cooperation, not acquisition."

So disrespectful?

Chen Ba was surprised, didn’t expect in this day and age there’s a team that money can’t buy.

But why?

This motion capture team, apart from taking some animation, special effects, and game orders, usually doesn’t get much work, barely maintaining subsistence, why refuse Tianba’s acquisition?

"They probably asked for a high price!"

Lu explained: "Such teams usually have big ambitions, our offer can’t satisfy them, naturally no deal."

"Then forget it..."

As soon as he heard it was due to price disagreement, Chen Ba guessed the other party asked for an exorbitant price.

Tianba Studio isn’t short of money, but they also can’t waste it, whoever wants to be the fool can be, but Chen Ba won’t.

Can’t buy a plug-and-play motion capture team? Then just set up a new one ourselves, it’s just spending money, what’s the big deal!

"Buy equipment, recruit employees, set up the motion capture studio, have Dong contact a headhunter to help find suitable candidates."

Chen Ba stated seriously: "If Tianba Studio wants to grow strong, we must have our own motion capture team."

Motion capture, full name motion capture.

This is a widely applicable technology, not only for film production and game development but also widely used in military, entertainment, sports, medical applications, computer vision, and robotics technology, among other fields.

Leaving aside its role in other fields, just speaking of the gaming industry, it can be summarized in one sentence:

The foundation of 3D games!

Ordinary 2D games can disregard motion capture technology, but when it comes to 3D, it must be used.

Because the enhancement and support effect of this technology on 3D games is just too important.

Let’s put it this way.

99% of AAA games at home and abroad basically use motion capture technology, and the more excellent the AAA title, the higher the precision of motion capture, the cleaner and more precise the movement.

Chen Ba wants to create AAA games, motion capture is an indispensable part.

In fact, during the development of "Star Emperor," he thought about setting up a dedicated motion capture team for Tianba Studio.

Just that...

This thing is costly, and more than the setup cost, the maintenance cost later is the most troublesome.

Setting up a team is easy, but how to sustain this team is the biggest challenge.

Without fixed projects, without particularly needing scenarios, forming the team just for fun would be pointless.

Now, the timing is right.

Tianba Studio has met all the conditions for developing AAA games, hence, forming a motion capture team is very necessary.

Also, there’s no fear of not being able to sustain it, with fixed projects, and ample funds, keeping a motion capture team alive is a piece of cake.

The key is to find the right people.

Interesting fact, there are quite a few tech experts in this area within the country, but they are all in the film special effects field, as a lot of Hollywood movie effects are outsourced to companies in Hua Country.

This is a bit of a headache.

Developing well in the field of film special effects, if you pull them into gaming, not to mention whether they’re willing, how to guarantee a promising future?

Even Chen Ba doesn’t believe this if he says it.

Doing film special effects is definitely a stable job, as long as people have entertainment needs, as long as movies still have viewers, they won’t fear starvation.

Game development is really precarious.

Who doesn’t know the status of domestic games, especially domestic standalone games? Coming to do standalone, and at that, the most risky AAA games, what if after completing this project, they get laid off?