Capcom has been releasing a series of lectures on its R&D channel over the past few hours regarding its internal RE Engine, which are mainly aimed at the developers who work with it, but nothing is stopping the general public from checking them out as well. If you are interested in the technical side of graphics in more detail, you will definitely learn interesting information. At the end of one of the lectures, devoted mainly to the history of this engine, its future was outlined.
In particular, we learned that Capcom is preparing a new engine, codenamed REX Engine (RE neXt Engine). Of course, players immediately began to associate it with Dino Crisis, but it’s hard to say if there was something more to it, or if the guys at Capcom just thought it was a “cool” name.
Capcom has announced that a successor to the RE Engine, codenamed REX Engine, is in development. https://t.co/nuMwXMYrrf pic.twitter.com/zYAHa2xPsP
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This is not a completely new engine as such, but rather a version of the RE Engine. First of all, Bring has the ability to work more efficiently with more resources or better tailor the engine to a specific game.
Greater accessibility (more detailed documentation and localization) is also often mentioned. It looks like Capcom no longer wants to focus solely on Japan with the engine. Of course, it’s mostly about developers who work for Capcom but don’t speak Japanese, but from the lecture it seems like Capcom is about to release an engine. Perhaps not for the general public, but perhaps as part of licensing to other studios. Let’s see if this actually happens.
You can already find many interesting lectures on the channel, one of them, for example, concerns ray tracing, which should already use the third version of the RE Engine in future games. It should bring several innovations, such as ray tracing for effects or reflections in mirrors.
There is also work underway to implement mesh shaders, which Remedy uses for example in the game Alan Wake 2 (and therefore does not officially support older video cards), but gradually they will surely find their way into more engines and games. First of all, they promise better performance and lower video memory requirements.
Source :Indian TV
