--- title: Q&A: How Capcom Brought Path Tracing to RE ENGINE Across... description: Capcom's RE ENGINE team spent two years integrating full path tracing into two simultaneous titles — Resident Evil Requiem and PRAGMATA. The team built a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/q-a-how-capcom-brought-path-tracing-to-re-engine-across-pragmata-and-resident-evil-requiem-vyfnepf5m twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Q&A: How Capcom Brought Path Tracing to RE ENGINE Across PRAGMATA and Resident Evil Requiem | daily.dev og:description: Capcom's RE ENGINE team spent two years integrating full path tracing into two simultaneous titles — Resident Evil Requiem and PRAGMATA. The team built a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/q-a-how-capcom-brought-path-tracing-to-re-engine-across-pragmata-and-resident-evil-requiem-vyfnepf5m og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/VYfNepf5m.png og:image:alt: Q&A: How Capcom Brought Path Tracing to RE ENGINE Across PRAGMATA and Resident Evil Requiem og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Q&A: How Capcom Brought Path Tracing to RE ENGINE Across PRAGMATA and Resident Evil Requiem **[NVIDIA Developer](https://daily.dev/sources/nvidiadev)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Capcom's RE ENGINE team spent two years integrating full path tracing into two simultaneous titles — Resident Evil Requiem and PRAGMATA. The team built a reference path tracer, validated it against DCC path tracers, then scaled it into a game-ready version using NVIDIA RTX Kit and DLSS Ray Reconstruction for denoising. Key improvements include replacing shadow maps with path-traced direct lighting, reducing the visual gap between gameplay and cutscenes, and enabling real-time light transmission through strand hair. The team also developed a custom ScreenSpaceAlphaTest method to handle AlphaTest geometry efficiently, and reimplemented ReSTIR GI from the published paper rather than using the RTX Kit version. The content pipeline evolved significantly, requiring artists and technical artists to adapt asset production for path-traced materials and reflections. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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