Since Cocos2d-x entered the field of mobile game development in 20 10, Cocos engine has grown into a universal engine covering games, education, e-commerce and digital twins among more than150,000 registered developers and 300,000 monthly active developers worldwide, covering more than 65,433 countries and regions.
Being listed as a competitor in Unity's prospectus, Cocos is also the first engine in the world to support Huawei's HarmonyOS system, alongside Unreal and Unity.
Make up the 3D capability, and further make the game development easier.
In the past experience of programmers, Cocos engine is the overlord of 2D games and the novice of 3D games.
In 2D games, fishing up, the first explosion based on Cocos2d-x, or the hot sword and expedition in recent two years, can always bring people surprises and joy.
On the other hand, Cocos engine is not good at building 3D games for a long time.
Fortunately, Cocos engine has never given up "making up lessons". On BIGC, Chen Haozhi showed two videos, one is 3D game rendering similar to Genshin Impact style, and the other is 3D mobile game rendering using Cocos Creator 3.3.
In the two videos, the former shows the ease of use and lightweight of Cocos engine, while the latter shows the performance of Cocos engine and 3D picture effects (delayed rendering pipeline technology, cluster light removal, cluster reflection probe, exponential height fog and other Cocos Creator 3.3 features) in multi-light, multi-vertex and large scenes.
Chen Haozhi said: "From Cocos officially released the 3D version of Creator in 20 19 to Cocos Creator editor officially merged 2D and 3D workflows in 200219, today we have been able to realize full scene editing, 3D workflows, and various physics and lighting effects that could not be realized in the past. At the bottom, we have begun to support rendering optimization and delay pipelines."
"Of course, there is still a big gap between Illusion and the latest version and ability of Unity, but from our own point of view, as long as everything starts to get on the right track, the realization of technology, algorithms and engineering is already foreseeable."
Covering all devices with screens, engine tools and content extending to the Internet of Things.
The development of game engine is synchronized with the changes of software and hardware platforms.
For example, Unreal started from PC, Unity and Cocos started from mobile games, and Unreal and Unity started from Microsoft respectively.
Apple cooperates closely with other companies, and the IDE+Runtime provided by Cocos is also the first choice of many manufacturers. The game engine is closely related to software and hardware manufacturers.
While Unreal is rebuilding the real world in a digital environment, Unity is deploying a cross-platform environment, and Cocos is further lightweight and sinking, Chen Ye shared his thoughts on which scenarios the future engine can be applied to.
"Recently, a friend told me that they started to make suspended lyrics speakers from 20 19, and the lyrics special effects were made by Cocos engine. This effect is very cool. They believe that game engines have great opportunities in the next generation of Internet of Things market. "
Chen continued to share that at this year's Shanghai Auto Show, LYRIQ, Cadillac's pure electric concept car, was a 3-D car scene made by fantasy, and the intelligent cockpit of Volvo was realized by Unity. The game engine has become a universal tool in the game.
In the next stage, the engine may cover all devices with "screens", and new devices with screens need to be filled with content, which needs to be guaranteed by experience. Many usage scenarios of these devices with screens are subscription system, which is an extension of game tools and content.
In the future, whether it is XR equipment, intelligent fitness, intelligent cockpit of electric vehicles, or even smart watches and intelligent conference systems, it will be the new blue ocean for game developers.
"For example, Cocos engine has accumulated solutions in ADAS and HMI. At present, most of the interactive interfaces of smart TVs in China are also developed based on Cocos. Recently, Cocos has also realized the demand of mouth interaction and action interaction of virtual idols on smart watches. In addition, Cocos is also supporting the screen interaction market including smart fitness equipment. " Chen said to:
"We hope that more developers can pay attention to new markets and new opportunities and bring changes to more fields with the technology, products and creativity of our game developers."