>>45959311SM quite literally only started development when ORAS wrapped up, and we've been told SwSh also started when LGPE wrapped up, with a beta leak that points towards that being true. Gamefreak does not have enough people to work on two games at once, at best they started planning and design/concept art work before SwSh was finished, but DP definitely had to wait for vanilla SwSh to end for production to start.
>>45959325You are trying too hard to win a faceless internet argument, but unfortunately for you, "derived" and "fork'' are not a cope, they are a fact. It is not the same engine, it was modified further, which I said in the first post. Literally anyone could tell you that from the mere fact that the way objects are rendered is clearly different to the point where even the lighting in the VFX is entirely different.