Shared Rendering Engine for Online Game Server Architecture
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional server architectures for online video games require significant computational resources for image rendering, especially when handling a large number of players, leading to inefficiencies in resource allocation and increased costs.
Innovation Solution
A server arrangement utilizing a shared-rendering engine that generates source graphics data and links game participants with relevant graphical scenes, performing a shared-rendering operation to generate a moving-image data stream, reducing the need for independent rendering processes for each player.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If traditional server architecture allocates separate rendering resources to each player, then each player receives high-quality individual rendering, but computational resource consumption increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the rendering operations for multiple players into a single shared rendering process. Instead of each player receiving separate rendering resources, the system performs one rendering operation that generates graphical data for multiple players simultaneously, thereby reducing overall computational resource consumption while maintaining acceptable rendering quality for all participants
Solution Approach 2:
The shared rendering engine performs multiple functions by serving multiple players simultaneously. A single rendering operation produces graphical scenes that can be distributed to multiple players, making the rendering system universal rather than dedicated to individual players, thus optimizing resource utilization
2Ease of operation
If separate rendering is performed for each player, then individual player experience is optimized, but server infrastructure costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system combines multiple individual rendering operations into a single shared rendering operation that serves multiple players. This reduces the total quantity of computational resources required while still providing graphical output to each player, thereby reducing infrastructure costs
3Productivity
If rendering resources are allocated per player, then rendering performance is maintained, but scalability to large player bases becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
By merging rendering operations into a single shared process that can serve multiple players, the system achieves better scalability. The rendering performance is maintained through optimized shared rendering techniques, and the system can accommodate more players without proportionally increasing computational resource allocation
Solution Approach 2:
The shared rendering system dynamically adjusts which players receive rendered scenes based on their positions and game state, allowing the system to scale flexibly as player numbers change while maintaining rendering performance for active participants
Data Source
AI summary
A server arrangement for controlling a video game viewable by game participants at a plurality of respective terminals. The server arrangement has a game engine to output graphical scenes collectively representing a virtual world with game characters, each graphical scene describing a portion of the virtual world. The server arrangement also has a shared-rendering engine for associating game participants with respective graphical scenes and for performing a shared-rendering operation on the graphical scenes to generate respective moving-image data streams, the shared-rendering operation being common for the game participants that are associated by the shared-rendering engine with the same graphical scene.