Define investor rendering presets

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+# 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.
+- 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.