Small SoW update courtesy of Luthier...

[David603]

Originally Posted by Avimimus

It isn't an engine shot. Luthier said earlier that Oleg is the only person who can post in-engine shots. That is the reason for low res ground textures and no-elevations. Look at the altitude (2 metres!).

I think the screenshots Luthier gave us are in-engine, just look at the lighting on the plane and the sky.

The textures on the ground look low res but nice, with a lot of detail but with a slight blurry effect kind of like the ground textures in Il2 if you turn down the ground detail a notch or two, so I'm sure these textures exist in higher res for eventual use in the maximum settings for the terrain.

[Avimimus]

Perhaps. I should have rather said that this shot is taken "in the tools" which must be some form of editor or renderer mode using the engine but with many features disabled (eg. the advanced water rendering missing from Luthier's last set of shots). I agree that it is in the game engine, but not the "game engine" proper (in playable condition with full features enabled).

By the way, this airplane was 60 kph slower than an He-111, with twice the range, more durability and with equivalent defensive armament and bombload. It is really nice to see it properly modelled in a sim.