Patent ID: 7961184

Claim:
A graphics processing apparatus comprising: a storing unit that stores a plurality of basic model files and a plurality of effect model files, a basic model file describing a basic model for defining a three-dimensional basic form of an object to be rendered, and an effect model file describing an effect to be applied to the basic model in order to create a variation form while maintaining identity of the basic form of the object to be rendered; an effect processing unit that applies an effect described in the effect model file to a basic model, thereby changing the basic model; and a graphics processing unit that performs graphics processing for displaying a variation of the object to be rendered on-screen based on the basic model changed, wherein one or more effect model files are associated with a player in a game among a plurality of games played in a virtual shared space, and wherein when a player of a first game enters into a second game that is ongoing, the effect model files, which have been prepared for rendering effects on an object in the first game, are transmitted with the player to the second game, and when an object in the second game encounters the player who has entered, one or a plurality of effect model files are applied to the basic model file of the object in the second game by the effect processing unit while the second game is ongoing, thereby altering the basic model of the object of the second game while maintaining the second game in the virtual shared space, and the graphics processing unit performs graphics processing for displaying unanticipated variations of the object in the second game based on the altered basic model of the object.