78: Chapter 78 Development speed is encouraging! What have you become?

Time flows like water, passing in the blink of an eye.

In the blink of an eye, another two weeks or so had passed. The development progress of Minecraft had quietly advanced to over fifty percent at a speed that exceeded expectations.

Regarding this.

Even Jiang Yuan, who had previously anticipated the power of Aurora Engine 1.0, felt a slight pleasant surprise in her heart!

She felt that if things continued like this, once the company's employees became fully proficient with the new engine, not only would the production speed of Minecraft exceed expectations, but all of Spark Games' future games might also explode with extremely astonishing production speeds.

When that time came.

Releasing a top-tier AAA masterpiece every year or two, something that only existed in legends, might truly not be a dream?

This day.

Jiang Yuan was sitting in her office reviewing the block texture proposals submitted by the Art Group when a sudden burst of hurried footsteps came from outside the door.

There was a knock on the door. Jiang Yuan looked up from her computer and said in a clear voice:

“Come in.”

The moment the words fell.

Zhou Ming, who was wearing a shirt and khaki cargo pants and looked as young as a fresh graduate, walked in with a happy expression and said in a booming voice:

“Boss! We did it!”

Jiang Yuan looked at this usually delicate and reserved programmer, who was now acting as excited as a fool, and couldn't help but lightly stroke her forehead, saying somewhat helplessly:

“What have you become?”

Zhou Ming took a deep breath, trying hard to smooth out his fluctuating emotions, and said with shining eyes:

“World generation!”

“Following your guidance, we relied on the Aurora Engine's multi-threaded computing power scheduling, combined with our self-developed procedural chunk generation logic, to completely clear the path for a borderless dynamic world! We also did the matching streaming loading optimization.”

“Just now, Brother Lin flew in an empty scene for half an hour. Chunks were generating in real-time the whole time without any stuttering or loading pop-ups!”

Oh ho!

After hearing this, a flash of joy also seemed to pass through Jiang Yuan's clear, black-and-white eyes.

She immediately put down the documents in her hand, stood up of her own accord, and took the lead in walking out the door, saying with a bright smile:

“I thought you guys might have to research it for a day or two. I didn't expect you to master it so quickly? Come on, let's go see your results!”

Jiang Yuan led Zhou Ming out of the office.

She immediately saw that a large circle of people had gathered in the Programming Department's office area.

Surrounding Lin Zhengtao were not just people from the Programming Department; several people from the planning and art departments had also come over to watch the excitement. They clearly understood exactly what this breakthrough meant for the development progress of Minecraft.

In the center of the crowd, Lin Zhengtao was sitting in front of a computer, looking at the screen with a focused gaze, his fingers tapping rapidly on the keyboard. On the screen was a block world that was constantly extending outward.

Noticing Jiang Yuan's arrival.

The crowd immediately and silently, but with tacit understanding, made a path for this beautiful young girl with a high ponytail, wearing loose jeans and a thin fleece-lined shirt.

Even though more than a week had passed since that lecture.

Even until now, everyone at Spark Games could not forget the confident and beautiful way Jiang Yuan spoke eloquently, and the shock brought to everyone by her vast store of knowledge.

Not to mention.

This program that had already been cleared was only successful so quickly and smoothly under Jiang Yuan's tireless guidance.

Walking all the way through the crowd, Jiang Yuan went to the front of the screen and looked at the world being generated on the computer.

At first, it was just a flat plain of grassland. But as the character's camera moved while flying, hills in the distance began to emerge, followed by a winding, undulating light blue river.

On the opposite bank of the river was an extremely dense and magnificent coniferous forest, the edge of the woodland connected to undulating mountainous terrain.

Further away on the horizon, the outlines of snow-capped mountains could be seen.

And all of this was dynamically generated.

There was no preset fixed terrain, no hand-drawn entire map; only a set of core algorithm frameworks and a set of random number seeds had created a block world that looked completely real on the computer.

Noticing Jiang Yuan's arrival, Lin Zhengtao did not stop his actions of explaining to the surrounding people. He explained while operating:

“Using temperature and humidity as the core dual dimensions, overlaying noise parameters for continentality and erosion, and then matching terrain height for corrections, we finally determine the block attributes of each coordinate.”

“Currently, we have implemented five basic Biomes: plains, desert, coniferous forest, forest, and swamp, as well as auxiliary terrains like matching snowy mountains and rivers!”

Jiang Yuan didn't say a word, her clear eyes moving along with Lin Zhengtao's actions on the screen, carefully observing every detail before finally speaking up:

“The river generation algorithm needs to be adjusted slightly.”

“The noise function's octave parameters being used now aren't tuned well; the riverbeds are either too wide or the turns are too stiff.”

“Control the main channel width to 5-8 blocks, narrow the tributaries to 3-5 blocks, use fractal noise to optimize the interpolation of the river path, and make smooth curvature transitions at the turns. Don't let there be a sense of discordance from right-angled bends.”

Lin Zhengtao was startled at first, then hurriedly nodded in agreement.

A look of contemplation appeared on her exquisite and lovely face. Jiang Yuan crossed her arms and continued in a crisp voice:

“Additionally, the transitions between Biomes are too abrupt.”

“Biomes of different temperature gradients cannot be directly hard-spliced. For example, between a high-temperature biome like a desert and a low-temperature biome like snowy mountains, a transition zone of temperate grassland or coniferous forest must be added according to the temperature gradient. You absolutely cannot have a situation where a desert directly connects to snow.”

“Use noise interpolation for natural gradients at biome boundaries, controlling the transition interval to 16-32 blocks, so that the characteristics of the two terrains can merge naturally, rather than having a hard-cut boundary.”

The words fell.

Although the others didn't speak.

Jiang Yuan could clearly see intense admiration and worship in their eyes, obviously marveling at the keen insight she had displayed.

Regarding this.

Jiang Yuan could only smile slightly. She couldn't very well tell these people that the reason she was so keen and insightful.

Was actually because in her previous life, she had both worked in game development and played Minecraft for a sufficient amount of time, and had also seen enough development logs and Mod source code.

This wasn't some gifted talent that could be called invincible; it was just a dimensional strike formed by a life from another world after gathering all sorts of advantages.

Not caring much about the gazes of others, Jiang Yuan seemed to suddenly think of something and asked clearly again:

“By the way, what is the world height right now?”

Hearing this, Lin Zhengtao also suppressed the admiration in his heart and hurriedly replied:

“Currently it's 256 blocks, ranging from 0 to 255.”

Jiang Yuan instructed thoughtfully:

“Adjust the total world height range to -64 to 320, stretching the total vertical space to 384 blocks.”

“Leave the layers from -64 to 0 for Deepslate, Bedrock, and deep-level ore veins, leaving enough bottom space for subsequent cave content updates.”

“Use layers 0 to 256 for conventional terrain generation, with sea level fixed at layer 63. Leave the top space from layer 256 to 320 for players to build and fly freely.”

“With this arrangement, when it's released, players will have more ample space when building houses and large structures, and subsequent expansion of underground content won't require restructuring the underlying height logic.”

These details seemed trivial, but every single one was related to the final experience of the game.

A height difference of one block might not seem very conspicuous, but when added together with other things, it was the underlying logic that determined whether a player felt this world had a sense of reality.

The testing continued.

Jiang Yuan stood in front of the screen and watched for nearly an hour, during which she proposed over a dozen modification suggestions.

From detail optimization of terrain generation to the footstep sound feedback thresholds for different block surfaces when the character moved, she covered almost every aspect of the core game experience, continuing to maintain the 'dimensional strike' from another world!