Oct 21, 2026, 6:40 PMStarting a new project? Turn on and enforce the following right now:
-sRGB for all rendertargets and source textures.
-premultiplied alpha in both textures and blending.
-fixed-point world time and world position.
Retrofitting these after the fact is a giant pain. Learn from my (repeated) fail!
Oct 21, 2026, 6:44 PMsRGB for "image-like" source textures I mean. Not normal maps or things like that. Note that almost every texture you have will already *be* sRGB, they just won't be labelled that way. JPEGs and PNGs and so on are already sRGB format. Just turn it on.
https://medium.com/@tomforsyth/the-srgb-learning-curve-773b7f68cf7a
Oct 21, 2026, 9:08 PMInfo about fixed-point:
https://tomforsyth1000.github.io/blog.wiki.html#%5B%5BA%20matter%20of%20precision%5D%5D
Oct 21, 2026, 10:10 PM...and info about premultiplied alpha: https://tomforsyth1000.github.io/blog.wiki.html#%5B%5BPremultiplied%20alpha%20part%202%5D%5D
@TomF *all LDR render targets!
Oct 21, 2026, 6:45 PM@lisyarus Yes. HDR targets are already linear.
Oct 21, 2026, 11:01 PM@TomF And if you're in unity, make sure it's using the YAML serialization format and not the binary (not sure which one is the default now)