Interstellar Travel: Becoming a Dress-Up Game Designer

Chapter 144

Players draw what they want to make, then make it, and then follow Qingfengyi's correct production method again and again to complete it little by little. The moment the finished product is finished, they are so moved that they want to cry.

Although my own creations don't look as good as the official ones, I still waited half a month for a single piece, and for complex ones, I even spent a whole month working on them.

Only you know how hard you've worked, and how much to be happy about that success.

"I never thought the ancients were amazing before, but this time I truly admire them."

“Me too, I’m so touched. Qingfengyi explained that it takes them more than a year or two to make a single piece of lacquerware. That must be such a difficult process. With the game’s simplification, we can get our items in just one or two months.”

"What moved me the most was, take a good look at the lacquerware! (Video)."

This player has acquired three sets of rare, discontinued furniture: one set of Xiaoyi Residence, one set of Castle, and one set of Bamboo Forest Residence. His Bamboo Forest Residence wasn't built himself; it was a purchased skin.

This set of rare props is suitable for any location and is not limited by any style.

The castle, a Western-style building, fits in perfectly, and it is especially fitting in Little Italian Residence.

The bamboo house in the bamboo forest also exudes an air of otherworldly elegance and noble grandeur, as if some great master has retired to this place.

The table and chairs were round, black lacquered and gilded, with a red circle encircling a central design of two carp playing among lotus flowers. Below the lotus flowers, the water rippled gently, a pale misty green spreading outwards until it turned black.

One carp is a three-colored white carp, and the other is a three-colored black carp, hovering under the lotus flowers and leaves.

The corner of the table is a crescent-shaped curve, with a gold-painted dragon winding its way upwards.

The black lacquer is smooth and glossy, with a clear and elegant texture.

Although the pattern isn't an intricate, all-over design, there's plenty of blank space, which makes the table look incredibly grand.

There are four chairs, and this is a small round table.

The chair with the backrest, edged with begonia flowers, is the same black lacquer color.

Among the many openwork carvings, there is an oval surface with the Four Gentlemen motif.

Small groups sitting together create a great atmosphere for drinking tea and eating.

The wardrobe was also lacquered black, and the combination of black and gold looked incredibly luxurious. Lin Shuying adored it, which is why many of her rare props used black lacquer.

The wardrobe is a large cabinet with three doors. The noble family used mother-of-pearl to make a peacock and plum blossom pattern. The plum blossom is made of carved lacquer, and the peacock is inlaid with mother-of-pearl.

The unique refractive colors of mother-of-pearl perfectly showcase the splendor of the feathers.

The bottom of the cabinet is decorated with a mythical beast, while the top is decorated with a pair of mandarin ducks, all carved in colorful lacquer and are very lifelike.

The most exquisite items are the bowls and chopsticks, tea set, dressing box, and screen.

The nine-sided screen is entirely decorated with paintings of court ladies.

The paintings depict a beautiful woman admiring peonies, gazing at banana trees by a window, reciting poetry, and looking back in the snow—each one is incredibly lifelike. The women are plump and graceful, their postures serene, and the surrounding scenery is exquisitely beautiful.

It combines colored lacquer, gold leaf, and carved lacquer. The beauty is three-dimensionally carved lacquer, while the surrounding scenery is colored lacquer.

It's so detailed that even the eyelashes are visible.

Players were mesmerized; the details were incredible.

It's difficult for them to achieve this level of quality in their own creations; the carving alone takes a long time, and it's impossible to complete it in ten days or half a month.

Mixing and applying the paint takes a long time, and if you're not careful, you'll end up wasting your time.

The dressing case is a red lacquered box inlaid with pearls and mother-of-pearl. Overall, it is square, with many pearls and jewels inlaid around it to form flowers. Butterflies and birds made of mother-of-pearl flutter inside, lively and colorful.

In the video, the player pulls up the top golden ring, and a soaring phoenix immediately appears, its head and tail forming an open circle, with a large peony flower on the central circular disc.

Press down the rotation, and a mirror appears, reflecting the player's adorable Kyoto cat head.

You wouldn't even notice this clever little feature until you open it; it's truly amazing once you do.

Many players who were engrossed in lacquerware making and hadn't yet hunted for rare items quickly put aside what they were doing, determined to get their hands on this piece first.

Especially the phoenix!

"Aaaaaah, designer, when are you going to give us a real phoenix?!"

"I'm begging for the real phoenix from 'Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix'!"

The programmer who came to the game platform to slack off was very sad. He left a message below asking for a phoenix.

"Designer, take a look at what the players are saying, bring out Phoenix!"

Even though all the programs were set up almost perfectly, with only some parts still imperfect, Qingfengyi just wouldn't use them.

He reasonably suspected that Qingfeng was deliberately causing trouble in an attempt to force the game platform to lower its prices and offer him benefits.

snort!

While he was scrolling through messages in the game, his colleagues kept urging him, "Get to work right now, stop playing!"

He replied, "I'm on vacation, let's talk tomorrow."

"Why take a vacation? Designer Lin is here!"

"Since you're here, you're here."

"She came to our headquarters in person! If you don't come, you'll miss it. Apparently, she's going to test the latest program."

The programmer was jolted awake from his dream, quickly exited the game, and entered the holographic network.

At this moment, at the headquarters of the game platform Holographic Network, all the programmers and most of the employees are gathered in the largest program testing area.

Testing new programs in the test area is quite different from game testing. Instead, it involves a 3D projection within a certain area where various operations are performed while many people around search for vulnerabilities.

Keep making repairs until you are completely satisfied.

The programmers and technical engineers were full of confidence; this was something they had been working on for almost a year, and it was sure to impress the designer!

Lin Shuying didn't take any orders for this event, but she made five cheongsams for sale and for a fashion show, so she had time.

I plan to check out the game platform's work in person. Previous tests in the game didn't go very well, so I had Wei Linwei and his team oversee it. I wonder if we'll get satisfactory results this time.

Lin Shuying: "Let's begin."

The project manager asked excitedly, "So, which one do you plan to test?"

Lin Shuying laughed and said, "Testing the Flying Immortal."

The person in charge looked slightly disappointed and asked, "Why not test the phoenix?"

Their project team perfected the Phoenix part to the best of their ability, ensuring that Lin Shuying would like it.

Lin Shuying laughed and said, "I'm not planning to go on Phoenix TV yet."

Everyone around sighed, "Why, Designer Lin, the Phoenix's functions are really comprehensive."

Looking at everyone's expectant eyes, Lin Shuying sighed, "Alright, I'll spoil you this once, and we'll test the phoenix."

As she spoke, Lin Shuying entered the test machine, connected to her game development space, and released the phoenix.

The moment the phoenix appeared, everyone was amazed; it was so beautiful!

The phoenix was small, perched on Lin Shuying's shoulder, its tail often trailing behind.

It is golden overall, but the feathers shimmer with iridescent light, and every single hair is visible.

His eyes were bright and lively, his movements were graceful, and his lines were fluid.

Standing on Lin Shuying's shoulder, he gently nuzzled her cheek with his head.

"Ahhhh, my phoenix!"

"It, it, it's so beautiful, so adorable!"

"I can't take it anymore, I really can't take it anymore! This time, the designer won't let us leave until we get to Phoenix!"

While everyone was focused on discussing how to surround the designer, Lin Shuying began to form hand seals in the testing space. Then she transformed into a ray of light and flew into the phoenix's body.

The phoenix instantly raised its head and cried out, its body engulfed in orange flames that turned the entire space red.

Then the machine started blaring alarms, and the surrounding screens turned completely red.

The project manager was completely bewildered. What was going on?!

"Handle this immediately, what's going on!"

System alert: Program overload, program overload........

The programmer rushed over to check, and the technician quickly went offline to monitor the machine to prevent it from crashing.

When programmers see a single action executing hundreds of thousands of instructions, it can be quite overwhelming.

"Make her stop right now! It's going to explode, it's really going to explode!"

How is it possible to do that?!

A typical game might run a few thousand commands at most, but that's only in the holographic era, with direct neural connections, making it fast. In ancient times, a few hundred commands would have been the limit.

Over there, Lin Shuying felt the divine power, cultivation, spiritual pressure, immortal energy, level, and other things she had attached to the phoenix, as if she were being reborn in its body.

After the flames erupted, the phoenix transformed, its size increasing a thousandfold, and its feathers becoming enormous and even more magnificent.

Legend has it that a drop of phoenix blood or a single feather is a priceless treasure, and she's incorporated that into the game. Even a casually plucked feather can be used to craft magical artifacts, possessing immense power and pressure.

Swallowing fresh blood can instantly make one a half-step Nascent Soul cultivator.

The phoenix also possesses various skills, the most basic of which is the phoenix rebirth, followed by blessing, fire, moving mountains and filling seas, and covering the sky and sun, etc.

The summoned creatures are a fire phoenix, an ice phoenix, and a wood phoenix. They are similar in appearance, but differ in color and details.

There are also unique attack skills and interaction commands specific to the Phoenix.

She excitedly unleashed a powerful attack: Phoenix Feather Arrows!

Its wings shot outwards without restraint, accompanied by flames, whistling and piercing the earth, their cold light chilling and intimidating.

The phoenix flew and circled in the sky, its cries ethereal and sharp, as if piercing the heart.

Then, the server crashed.

Offline, the programmers watched the test machines crackling and sparking, feeling somewhat bewildered and lost.

In the holographic world, the programmer watched helplessly as the screen went black...

Lin Shuying was suddenly thrown out and was a little dazed.

"I haven't finished testing yet..."

Everyone looked at her with mixed feelings.

The person in charge, regaining his composure, asked, "What did you do?"

Lin Shuying innocently said, "Testing Phoenix, you mean the Testing Phoenix?"

After saying that, she thought about her own test experience and said, "No, it still runs very slowly. Many things can't be displayed. For example, when I make hand seals, there should be faint spiritual energy or immortal energy fluctuations in my hands. I should be able to clearly feel that change. I could clearly feel it when I was designing it, but I didn't see it at all during the test just now. After I merged with the phoenix, I couldn't do some of the phoenix's form, and I couldn't do some of my own movements either."

Logically, there should be a familiarization process after entering the phoenix's body, during which time she would be rather clumsy, which would be more realistic. However, after she entered, she was directly loaded with the phoenix's original action program, completely lacking her own consciousness. When she tried to control the phoenix, she was interfered with by the phoenix's original commands.

"In my imagination, mutual control shouldn't lead to mutual interference..."

As Lin Shuying spoke eloquently, everyone looked at her with rather complicated expressions.

Over there, the programmer finally figured out which instructions had just been executed.

Thousands of pages of instruction code...

"I remember seeing such a long code page back when my teacher was explaining the control core of an old-fashioned spaceship..."

Back then, very old code instructions were used, requiring many symbols to complete a simple command. It took constant repetition to filter a single element.

After the code instructions for neural and bio-waves were updated, the code became very concise, and there are very few code pages that are so long.

Upon closer inspection, hundreds of action commands, thought commands, language commands, element commands, and so on were executed within a second, many of which were even incomprehensible.

"Designer, why are there over a hundred fire commands? Can't it be done with just one command?"

Lin Shuying came over and took a look, but didn't understand.

The programmer explained, "For the flame you just released, just apply this command. Don't use any of those complicated commands like temperature changes, color changes, pressure changes, wind changes, gravity changes, etc. Just one flame command and one temperature command, okay?"

This simplification should definitely work.

Lin Shuying: "But in reality, when a phoenix releases flames, there are those physical changes."

Without those changes, how can players feel the aura, power, and magnificence of the mythical beasts?

The most brilliant design she could come up with was to use physical changes to let players feel magic and metaphysics, but now she's being told it can't be done?

She won't ride the divine beast if she can't do it, absolutely not.

There's no reason to make a phoenix into a flower phoenix!

The programmer said helplessly, "Why do we need those things? Qingfengyi was on Phoenix TV before, and I thought that was pretty good."

Lin Shuying sighed, "That's animation, a two-dimensional thing. Okay, let's test it again, and you come this time too."

The person in charge said apologetically, "The testing machine is broken..."

There had never been a situation before where code testing could cause a machine to fail, and the game platform simply did not prepare any extra test machines.

Lin Shuying said, "Let's go straight to the game design space test. However, the effect of that test is only one-tenth of the effect I want. You need to raise the threshold, otherwise you won't be able to make anything good."

"Row!"

"I want to see what kind of technical requirements a simple phoenix could possibly have."

Under Wei Linwei's guidance, Lin Shuying opened the game design space, and everyone went inside.

She released the phoenix.

Remembering how she had just destroyed someone else's test machine, Lin Shuying became more wary. "Linwei, if something goes wrong here, will it affect my other designs?"

She has a lot of things she usually makes in her storage space; if she ruins them all, she'll be disgusted.

Wei Linwei said, "Just make a copy, upload it to your personal space, and save another copy offline as a backup."

"Okay, go ahead and copy it."

After copying, start testing.

This time, Lin Shuying did not merge with the phoenix, but simply summoned the divine beast phoenix.

The moment the phoenix appeared, the people around it all collapsed to the ground, unable to lift their heads.

The overwhelming pressure was suffocating.

My body felt numb and I was trembling uncontrollably.

Is it that when fear reaches its extreme, it's not painful, but rather pleasurable?