I was asked by Sergey to provide some images to showcase the new Khronos PBR Neutral tone mapper. And there may be another request for images when the Blender 4.2 release notes are being worked on. But I thought I’d share the images here.
Product render example
One of the main proposed use cases for Khronos PBR Neutral is E-Commerce. Because it has relatively minor distortions on colours, and counter acts some of the effects of fresnel, while having a nice highlight roll off for bright spots usually seen with specular high lights. So I created a scene to test this, a mock up DVD case. Where I make use of a logo (where the minor colour distortions are useful), and a metallic sticker to showcase the highlight roll off on the specular reflections.
This scene is not well suited for AgX tone mapping. So AgX is included here just for educational purposes.
Standard:
Khronos PBR:
AgX:
Street scene
I created a file a while ago to test Filmic against AgX. This scene specifically tests the appearance of extremely bright and vibrant lights in the two tone mappers (an area where Filmic struggled with). This is a interesting scene to test this tone mapper on as well.
This scene is not well suited for the Standard tone mapper. This is because a lot of values exceed the 0…1 range. So Standard is mostly included for demonstration purposes (specifically to show one of the areas where PBR Neutral is better).
