The Reach for the Moon Engine

01/09/2022

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The Reach for the Moon Engine also know as the RE engine, is a game engine created by Capcom© originally designed for Resident Evil 7: Biohazard. The game brought to our screens near life-like graphics with new graphical and rendering techniques such as Subsurface Scattering which is a shading method used to create highly realistic human skin. Developers managed to impliment these mechanics on systems such as the xbox one and the playstaion 4, which dont quite live up to current day hardware standards. With that in mind, what the new generation of consoles and hardware could have in store for gaming from a graphical standpoint leaves me incredibly excited for the future of gaming.

01/19/2022

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Resident Evil 7: Biohazard was the first game to show off the impressive capabilites of the RE engine. It aloud Capcom© developers to bring to life a horrific backwood enviroment thought only possible in movies. They accomplished this by taking advantage of the power of the RE engine with technology such as photogrammetry, which is used to scan real life actors and items to create life-like looking assets.

01/20/2022

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Moving into the 8th generation of gaming, Capcom's RE engine is intended to be the successor to an engine they had been using for over 15 years by the name of MT-Framework. The MT-framework engine was noted as having many issues when it came to development. It was not easily modifiable and had slower development tools which posed an issue as development times continue to increase.

The Reach for the moon engine is not a public engine, so it is difficult to say exactly what frameworks/languages are used in the making of the engine. Unity samples can be seen in the production video on the top left of this page, and it was stated by a developer working for Capcom© with the RE engine, that it was quite difficult switching over to C#. Aside from those two things, not much information is available to the public.