Bright or HDRI

[Francisco_Penaloza]

I am trying to use an image as a background and when placed on the game it look very dark, I would like to make it bright, almost over exposed, I have the original image as HDR format, but I can't make it export correctly int o Stingray.

Your help is appreciated.

Fco.

[andrew.grant · Accepted solution]

For HDRi images you will need to save from photoshop a R16G16B16A16F DDS file.

Import that into Stingray and in the texture editor:

1. Set output format to R16G16B16A16F

2. Uncheck sRGB (to use linear)

3. Save.

Setup a material like below:

And you will get a result like this:

[andrew.grant]

Also note, that with the next release of Stingray the workflow for HDRi textures will be much much easier.

[Francisco_Penaloza]

I really hope so, because I did try to recreate the material that you show here and for the life of me I could not find the 'intensity' node.

is there a search options when you are creating nodes inside stingray??

a la unreal?

at the end I created a standard material and placed the texture in both, base color and emissive intensity slot and doing the texture adjustment you mentioned.

It didn't work for me the first try, then I realized that my HDRI was not perfect square, I guess DDS format really required square images.

Thank for you r help and really looking forward the next release 😉

[andrew.grant]

There is no intensity node, that node is a Material Variable named 'intensity' and set to scalar.

[Francisco_Penaloza]

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@andrew.grant wrote:

There is no intensity node, that node is a Material Variable named 'intensity' and set to scalar.

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and that's why you are developing this software and I am just...