# Investor Rendering Presets

Agrarian should support high-end cinematic capture without making ray tracing a
baseline requirement. The investor demo should look credible in the default
non-ray-traced path first, then scale up when local hardware supports it.

Preset definitions live in `Config/AgrarianRenderingPresets.ini`.

## Default

Default is the investor demo baseline for remote play, screen sharing, and
common tester hardware.

- Target: 1080p, 60 FPS.
- Ray tracing: disabled.
- Lighting: Lumen software/global illumination path.
- Shadows: virtual shadow maps enabled.
- Use case: packaged demo, repeated testing, and normal investor handoff.

## Recommended

Recommended is for local GPU testing and investor machines that handle Unreal 5
Lumen comfortably.

- Target: 1440p, 60 FPS.
- Ray tracing: disabled.
- Lighting/reflection quality: higher software Lumen settings where available.
- Use case: local capture and higher-fidelity live walkthroughs without relying
  on ray-tracing support.

## Cinematic

Cinematic is optional and should be used only for controlled local capture or
high-end walkthroughs.

- Target: 4K, 30 FPS.
- Ray tracing: optional high-end mode.
- Lighting/reflections: hardware Lumen when available.
- Use case: screenshots, short clips, and investor capture passes.

## Policy

- No gameplay feature should require ray tracing.
- The default investor demo must remain credible with ray tracing disabled.
- The packaged investor demo should launch against the Default preset unless a
  tester explicitly selects another profile.
- Cinematic settings may be slower and should never become the required tester
  path.
- If a visual feature only works in cinematic mode, it needs a default-mode
  fallback before it can be considered MVP-ready.
