Is unity capable of fading between 2 shadow resolutions to get better performance?

Unity Engine
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Is there a way to fade between 2 resolutions from a realtime directional light? (not baked)
I have a scene with a lot of foliage and when I use high res shadows I get bad performance and low fps.
But when I set the shadows to low I get 300+
This is understandable using alot of trees and a dynamic light but-

A feature that I noticed in the new grand theft auto is the rage engine seems to blend between two different shadow resolutions.
Close to the camera the shadows are high, but a few feet away it shifts into a completely different much lower resolution.

This is a necessity for my project in order to have reasonable performance with realtime shadows in my forest environments, I was almost considering going back to trying cryengine until I remembered this method,

Is it possible in unity? And if so how, or is an asset or something required?

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Unity pro fades between realtime shadows and lightmap shadows, it’s probably what you need. In the distance it’s baked. It’s fast like this.

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The Unity realtime shadows can use cascades, which use a low-res texture farther away and a high-res version close up. You can have 0, 2 or 4 cascades as set in the quality settings.

–Eric

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Maybe the foliage might be killing the fillrate of your gfx card. Maybe you can use a cheaper shader to render the foliage. Or use LODs or more “opaque objecs”