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At our studio, all of our color math is done in linear and then we convert to sRGB at the end of the graph. Even our color textures are imported as linear. This makes it simple and cheap to do color blending, etc..

The problem i'm encountering is that there doesn't seem to be a linear color picker, so we have to either convert the picker to linear in the shader or use a float4 and manually enter the rgb values. Both of these options are inconvenient, but one of them literally makes the shader more expensive.

Is there something i'm doing wrong?

[img]color_picker_bug.JPG[/img]

Follow-up question, what methods are the "Fast" and "Exact" gamma corrections using?
Is "fast" using a lookup table?

jake_from_bend wrote:Follow-up question, what methods are the "Fast" and "Exact" gamma corrections using?
Is "fast" using a lookup table?

Hello,

This is not exactly my area of expertise but we do provide references in the official node page.

You can change the Picker by setting the HDR attribute, is this what you're looking for?



Please do elaborate if not, I will pass your request along to our developers.

Thanks!

Sorry for the delayed response, Ricardo.
So after inspecting the actual shader code generated by ASE, it does in fact look like the color picker is sampled in linear. The preview inside ASE is just displaying it incorrectly.

Hello! Unfortunately, the preview of the nodes does not always display the most accurate data.

Nevertheless, I'll pass this information to the developer to see if there's anything that we can do on our side, thank you for letting us know.

It's certainly appreciated.
I imagine this would cause some confusion to a lot of shader artists, as the Color sampler is only in linear, but is displayed as sRGB. It turned out we were needlessly converting the color picker to linear before doing color math.

That's completely understandable, we apologize for the inconvenience caused and will hopefully find a solution or workaround for this problem.