Kena: Bridge of Spirits New Graphics and Colors

I made some improvements as follows:

Grass distance increased. Foliage and tree distance increased. Higher lod and optimizations. Shadows optimized. True sky enabled and better clouds. Fog density reduced. Color and brightness adjustments. Screen space reflections optimized. Better antialiasing. Added sharpness for Taa when you play on nativ. Added anisotopic filtering 16x for sharper textures at distance. Ui scale set to 75%. Post process effects like motion blur, grain, chromatic aberration disabled. A little more load on the cpu, which relieves the gpu a bit. Better performance. Fps drops are fixed. Adjusted and optimized Bloom so that it no longer fades. Shadow fading disabled. Texture streaming greatly accelerated and optimized. Especially noticeable after a new game start. Since now no more textures have to be reloaded. Generally better optics with better performance. Water and tesslation optimized. Shadow Akne fixed.

Performance tip: I play with dx 11 and have an average of + 10 fps.

Since this can vary a lot depending on the system, please test dx 11 and 12 your fps here. But in my experience the UE4 runs better with DX 11.

In windows explorer options go to View and enable Hidden files and folders: Show hidden files and folders. After that you will see the AppData folder.

Now proceed as follows:

Go to the folder: PC/Name/AppData/Local/Kena/Saved/Config/WindowsNoEditor

Now we need the engine file, which in this case is not here. So let's create one. Let's do it like this now:

Copies the GameUserSettings and paste them on the desktop. Rename this to : Engine

This is the fastest way and saves an additional guide on how to create an engine file. It also starts third-party programs like the engine unlocker.

Delete completely the entire entry and add the following:

[SystemSettings]
r.Streaming.Boost=1
r.FastVRam.EyeAdaptation=1
r.bForceCPUAccessToGPUSkinVerts=1
r.Streaming.HLODStrategy=0
r.Streaming.LimitPoolSizeToVRAM=1
r.Streaming.MaxEffectiveScreenSize=0
r.HZBOcclusion=1
r.MaterialQualityLevel=1
r.EmitterSpawnRateScale=2.0
r.DetailMode=2
r.MipMapLODBias=0
r.HLOD=1
r.HLOD.DistanceScale=1.5
r.HLOD.MaximumLevel=1
r.MaxAnisotropy=16
r.ViewDistance=2
r.ViewDistanceScale=2
r.LandscapeLODDistributionScale=2
r.LandscapeLOD0DistributionScale=2
foliage.LODDistanceScale=2
foliage.DitheredLOD=1
grass.CullDistanceScale=1.50
foliage.MaxOcclusionQueriesPerComponent=128
foliage.MinInstancesPerOcclusionQuery=65536
foliage.MinimumScreenSize=0.00000001
r.StaticMeshLODDistanceScale=0.50
r.SkeletalMeshLODBias=-2
grass.DisableDynamicShadows=1
grass.DensityScale=0.75
foliage.DensityScale=1.0
r.Water.WaterMesh.TessFactorBias=12
r.TessellationAdaptivePixelsPerTriangle=128
r.HairStrands.DeepShadow.SuperSampling=1
r.Fog=1
r.FogDensity=0.02
r.FogStartDistance=4
r.VolumetricFog.GridDivisor=30
r.VolumetricFog.GridPixelSize=8
r.VolumetricFog.GridSizeZ=64
r.VolumetricFog.Jitter=1
r.VolumetricFog.InjectShadowedLightsSeparately=1
r.VolumetricFog.InverseSquaredLightDistanceBiasScale=1.000000
r.VolumetricFog.LightFunctionSupersampleScale=2.000000
r.TrueSkyQuality=1
r.SkyLightingQuality=1
r.SkylightIntensityMultiplier=0.4
r.VolumetricRenderTarget=2
r.ShadowQuality=4
r.Shadow.CSMDepthBias=20
r.Shadow.FilterMethod=0
r.Shadow.DistanceScale=2.0
r.Shadow.RadiusThreshold=0.01
r.Shadow.MinResolution=2048
r.Shadow.MaxResolution=2048
r.Shadow.FadeResolution=2048
r.Shadow.PreShadowResolutionFactor=1.0
r.Shadow.AllowForegroundShadows=1
r.CapsuleShadows=1
r.CapsuleMaxDirectOcclusionDistance=600.000000
r.CapsuleMaxIndirectOcclusionDistance=400.000000
r.CapsuleShadowsFullResolution=1
r.Shadow.PerObject=1
r.DistanceFieldShadowing=1
r.DFShadowQuality=4
r.DFFullResolution=1
r.ContactShadows=0
r.DistanceFieldAO=1
r.AllowLandscapeShadows=1
r.AmbientOcclusionLevels=2
r.DefaultFeature.AntiAliasing=2
r.PostProcessAAQuality=6
r.ScreenPercentage=100
r.TemporalAASamples=32
r.TemporalAACurrentFrameWeight=0.12
r.TemporalAAFilterSize=1.0
r.TemporalAACatmullRom=1
r.TemporalAAPauseCorrect=1
r.BloomQuality=4
r.ParticleLightQuality=2
r.RefractionQuality=2
r.LensFlareQuality=3
r.LightShafts=1
r.LightShaftQuality=2
r.LightMaxDrawDistanceScale=3
r.TransluzenzLightingVolumeDim=4
r.EyeAdaptationQuality=2
r.SSR.Quality=3
r.SSR.MaxRoughness=1
r.SSS.Scale=1
r.SSS.SampleSet=2
r.SSGI.Quality=3
r.Color.Mid=0.35
r.SceneColorFormat=4
r.TonemapperGamma=2.2
r.Tonemapper.Quality=3
r.TonemapperFilm=1
r.FastBlurThreshold=0
r.MotionBlurQuality=0
r.MotionBlur.Amount=0
r.MotionBlurSeparable=0
r.DepthOfFieldQuality=0
r.DepthOfField.FarBlur=0
r.DefaultFeature.MotionBlur=0
r.SceneColorFringe.Max=0
r.SceneColorFringeQuality=0
r.MotionBlur.Max=0
r.Tonemapper.GrainQuantization=0

[/script/engine.localplayer]
AspectRatioAxisConstraint=AspectRatio_MaintainYFOV

[/script/engine.userinterfacesettings]
ApplicationScale=0.75

Save and close the file and move it to: WindowsNoEditor. Finished.

Color and brightness optimization of the system:

Nvidia: Go to digital color enhancement (desktop color setting) and select a value between 60-80%.

Go to Change Resolution, scroll down and select: Nvidia Color Setting. Dynamic Output Range: Full. Color format: RGB.

Start the game and have fun with the better graphics.

New Graphics Look: