[Bf-committers] Patch: OCIO Parse Colorspace From Filename

[Troy Sobotka]

On Mon, Dec 11, 2017, 8:22 AM Adriano Oliveira <adriano.ufrb at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think this is ok, but do not really address "the tedium of manual setting
> of color spaces". No one would change two clicks in a drop down menu by a
> lot of typing in texture names: "_sRGB", "_linear"...
>

It really _is_ a functional solution for _thousands_ of materials. A batch
file renaming tool can do this in about ten seconds.

That is why a "[ ] sRGB" or "[ ] gamma corrected" check box in Texture
> Image node is the ideal solution for the unnecessary drop down for only two
> color space in this context.
>

It is far from ideal and would botch plenty of folks. These options would
be a tremendous regression.

Instead of mangling up pipelines, it probably makes sense to use one that
is more well fitted and streamlined. The filename is one such path that is
trivial to utilize.

With respect,
TJS