跟讀練習: How video game rocks get made - 通過影片學習英語口語

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This is a rock.

But this man is not a geologist.

My name's Galen.

I work as a producer and an evangelist here for Quixel at Epic Games.

Video game developer Epic Games makes games like Fortnite, but they're as well known for Unreal Engine, the ever-evolving game engine for a ton of video games

and other industries that use 3D from Hollywood movies to demos for architecture.

That's part of why Epic Games Studio Quixel sends people here.

Because getting high resolution scans of rocks like these represents an evolution in making video games and all three-dimensional art.

Where actually were you when you were doing these scans?

The area specifically that we spent the most time in is an area called Hurra Pass.

And Hurra Pass takes about 90 minutes to get to at least where we were scanning to in an off-road capacity.

Pavement stops, there's sheer drop-offs, it's really sketchy, for lack of a better way to put it.

And since we're so far off the grid and we didn't bring a generator or anything like that, we would just scan and tell the batteries we go completely dead.

Galen is out there searching for rocks that might look good for Epic's tech demo, set on a moody, slightly alien landscape.

In this clip, Galen is taking high-resolution pictures of this rock from a bunch of different angles.

The tent keeps light even, no hard shadows.

On the back, he's got a battery pack to keep going longer.

And on the ground, there's a scale marker so they'll know how big the boulder is.

These pictures are pulled into software, then they're stitched together into a 3D model.

The software figures out what a complete rock looks like from the common points in the picture.

All this makes up a scanned asset.

The Quixel team did a similar process for big structures by capturing via drone, and for textures by photographing a rock wall and capturing the canyon floor.

Making them can be pretty hard work.

You walk into an area and you think, oh, this is awesome.

And then you start breaking it down, thinking about what's actually going to be useful.

And it becomes less awesome very quickly.

Mostly just because of the time, you know, the time constraints.

It's like, oh, well, I could shoot that, but I mean, is it the best use of the few hours we have left today, you know?

But shifting that time to Quixel and other scanners and then distributing their work saves time for individual video game designers.

And the treacherous highlights of the canyons of Utah are available for download and insertion into your own game.

In the past, artists had to manually make these assets and textures, sometimes pixel by pixel.

These days, you might sculpt your own assets using special software.

Sometimes it works better than others.

I guess it's a face?

Downloading textures and models from a cloud marketplace cuts that out of the workflow.

They aren't just photos.

For example, they include additional images, like this normal map, which uses color to tell the program how high or low certain parts of an image should be.

And you can even remix and customize assets once you have them.

The example that I always use whenever I'm describing the library and the things that we do is, how many times do you as an artist need to remake that brick wall?

There are a lot of ways to get pretty good 3D stuff.

Part of what's exciting about all this technology is

that pretty much anyone can make a high quality 3D scan and get assets using stuff as simple as their phone.

You can use professional stuff like reality capture or honestly your own phone might get you 70% of the way there.

Do I look cool right now?

I feel so cool.

But for a rich environment, it's easier to just download something.

Polyhaven provides a lot of textures and models that work across many programs for free.

Quixel offers high-quality assets free to use in Unreal and for a fee in other programs.

And while I'm able to scan a local rock,

developers can't always go to Utah or another one of Quixel's biomes which range from rainforests to tundras.

Suddenly, everyone can make their game an alien planet without having to draw it.

Even though I'm not in the desert, it is super hot right now, and sometimes developers just want to sit at their desk.

Or make guys like Galen be the ones who have to trek out and eat lunch in the desert.

Quick Sam, you know what I mean?

Double cheese.

For Epic, these scans and textures were collected in part for that technology demo of the company's graphics supercharged Unreal Engine 5.

It's a flywheel for Epic Games and Quixel, where scans make Unreal Engine better, and better Unreal Engine means more Unreal Engine games,

which means more people want to add scans that work with Unreal Engine.

That also means it is eminently practical to send a crew of non-geologists deep into the desert to photograph rocks.

Thank you.

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本課的詞彙與口語要點

這節 B2 級別的口語課以影片“How video game rocks get made”為素材。影片中反覆出現的詞有：scan, rock, Unreal, engine, Quixel。這段影片共有 60 個句子、870 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 6:03。說話人語速平穩，每分鐘約 144 個詞，很適合跟讀。只有 80% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，詞彙難度較高。

影片中的重點詞彙

影片中最難的 15 個單詞，附發音和釋義：

單詞	發音	釋義
texture 名詞	/ˈtɛkst͡ʃə(ɹ)/	質地 /質地, 材質 /材質
demo 名詞	/ˈdɛm.oʊ/	示範 /示範
geologist 名詞	/d͡ʒiˈɑːlədʒɪst/	地質學家 /地質學家, 地質學者 /地質學者
pixel 名詞	/ˈpɪk.səl/	畫素
canyon 名詞	/ˈkænjən/	峽谷 /峽谷
constraint 名詞	/kənˈstɹeɪnt/	約束 /約束
customize 動詞	/ˈkʌs.tə.maɪ̯z/	定製, 定做
evangelist 名詞	/ɪˈvænd͡ʒəlɪst/	福音傳道者 /福音傳道者, 傳道者 /傳道者
excite 動詞	/ɪkˈsaɪt/	激動 /激動
flywheel 名詞		飛輪 /飛輪
rainforest 名詞	/ˈɹeɪn.fɔɹ.ɪst/	雨林
tundra 名詞	/ˈtʌndɹə/	凍原 /凍原, 苔原
workflow 名詞	/ˈwɝkfloʊ/	工作流
scanner 名詞	/ˈskænə/	掃描器 /掃描器
stitch 名詞	/stɪt͡ʃ/	縫針

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	發音	釋義
figure out 動詞		弄清楚
make up 動詞	/ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/	組成 /組成

值得反覆跟讀的句子

影片中簡短而完整的句子，可以直接用在日常對話裡：

Where actually were you when you were doing these scans?
I guess it's a face?
Do I look cool right now?

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 10 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 I'm, they're, aren't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“sh” 和 “zh” 音: insertion /ɪnˈsɝʃən/, sheer /ʃɪɚ/, dimensional /daɪˈmɛn.ʃə.nəl/
長單詞——注意重音位置: developer /dɪˈvɛləpɚ/, geologist /d͡ʒiˈɑːlədʒɪst/, eminently /ˈɛmɪnəntli/, evangelist /ɪˈvænd͡ʒəlɪst/, manually /ˈmænj(u)əliː/

中文母語者容易讀錯的音：

/v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: developer /dɪˈvɛləpɚ/, evangelist /ɪˈvænd͡ʒəlɪst/, pavement /ˈpeɪvm(ə)nt/, evolve /ɪˈvɑlv/
詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: geologist /d͡ʒiˈɑːlədʒɪst/, constraint /kənˈstɹeɪnt/, customize /ˈkʌs.tə.maɪ̯z/, evangelist /ɪˈvænd͡ʒəlɪst/, excite /ɪkˈsaɪt/
/æ/ — 嘴張大，不要讀成 /e/: scan /skæn/, canyon /ˈkænjən/, evangelist /ɪˈvænd͡ʒəlɪst/, scanner /ˈskænə/, manually /ˈmænj(u)əliː/

如何用這段影片練習

先完整聽一遍影片，不要開口，記下不認識的單詞。
用正常速度逐句跟讀，每句重複到你的節奏與說話人一致為止。
錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 texture, demo, geologist 這類單詞。

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