http://www.bit-tech.net/news/200 ... soon_be_70_smaller/

http://www.xboxyde.com/forum_8_15239_1_en.html


纹理文件体积缩小７０％　新技术将改变游戏界

本周在英国伦敦举行的游戏开发者会议上，一家名不见经传的公司Allegorithmic引起了大家的注意。他们宣称能够将游戏的纹理文件体积缩小70%。

众所周知，在现在的3D游戏中，贴图纹理占据了庞大的空间，也是促使新游戏主机采用蓝光等大容量存储媒介的一大诱因。但如果使用这家Allegorithmic出品的ProFX和MaP Zone 2软件来创建纹理，便能够在画质不变的情况下，戏剧性的缩小文件体积。

该公司称，现在许多的游戏美工都习惯使用Photoshop来创建纹理，但这款万能的图像处理软件对于游戏纹理来说并不是真正的适合。会上他们进行了多项演示，其中使用他们的纹理软件，将一款给予虚幻3引擎的XBOX Live游戏Roboblitz的纹理文件总量保持在了280KB，给与会者以很深的印象。

由于需要让美工针对新系统进行重新训练，这些软件在现阶段的应用范围还不算广。但Allegorithmic还是对其技术的推广很有信心，他们的远大目标是把自己的技术变为一种行业标准。如果真有如此惊人的效果，那么许多厂商所盼望的游戏网络化发行一定会加速到来。游戏也会更容易使用更加丰富的纹理，这都将给游戏业界带来一场革命。




Game files could soon be 70% smaller

The next demo was of a game that is due to come out for the XBOX Live Arcade called ‘Roboblitz’. Due to the requirement to get the game under 50MB, the developers needed to keep the textures as small in filesize as possible. Using the new texture system the overall size for all the textures was less than 280KB – watching the game (which runs on the Unreal 3 engine) I was amazed.

Confused by the fact that I hadn’t heard about this technology before, I spoke to one of the men behind it directly - Dr Sébastien Deguy. He assured me that there were no catches with his system, that if a game contained 1GB of textures he would be able to reduce that to 300MB and lose no quality. When I asked why everyone wasn’t using the program at the moment he explained it was due to people needing to be retrained in learning a new system. He was optimistic however, that soon all games companies will be using their new texture tools.

Check out the game only using 280KB worth of textures




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[ 本帖最后由 cangying 于 2006-10-6 11:19 编辑 ]

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原帖由 梅罗纹奇 于 2006-10-6 08:48 发表
是不是说用DVD就能装BD的容量.
这个公司肯定会被MS收购地,怎么没有关系.

至少说明这个XB360网络游戏将使用到这项新压缩技术，高材质要靠高带宽来实现，为了保证XBOX LIVE的网游画面的高质量，在目前还没有超高网络带宽的情况下还能保持游戏高材质的画面，这项技术显得由为重要。