Scalability settings cinematic?

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I just noticed that in the SETTINGS > ENGINE SCALABILITY SETTINGS there is a new preset CINEMATIC. I tried to find out more info about this but there is nothing stated in the official documentation.

Could anyone explain what changes this makes to the engine.
Thanks.

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Hi Numsi,

This was mentioned, briefly, in the release notes for 4.14.

New: Added a new “Cinematic”
Scalability level to the scalability
system. This level is intended for
offline rendering of cinematics only.

If you look at the BaseScalability.ini in the Engine/Config folder you can see the following settings that are used for this new setting.

[ShadowQuality@Cine]
r.LightFunctionQuality=1
r.ShadowQuality=5
r.Shadow.CSM.MaxCascades=10
r.Shadow.MaxResolution=4096
r.Shadow.RadiusThreshold=0.03
r.Shadow.DistanceScale=1.0
r.Shadow.CSM.TransitionScale=1.0
r.DistanceFieldShadowing=1
r.DistanceFieldAO=1

With this new setting, you can render higher quality shadows that are needed for offline rendering. This is not intended for any use during gameplay or at runtime.

I hope this helps.

Tim

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Thank you. This clears things up.

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Is there a way to package a project with scalability settings?
In Epic scalability i have like no AO and with cinematic i have AO. Thus would like to package with cinematic.