Hdr compiling causes fullbright on map

[Grubzer]

Compiling with hammer and Compile Pal 23x with hdr on causes a map to be fullbright (forces mat_fullbright 1)
Compiling without hdr enabled - no problem.

hammer hdr vrad settings:
-hdr -final -game $gamedir $path\$file

Compile Pal hdr vrad setting:
-final -StaticPropLighting -StaticPropPolys -hdr -game $game$ $vmfFile$

 

[Vel0city]

If you have -hdr you will only compile in HDR (high dynamic range), not LDR(low dynamic range, the setting the game runs at with standard settings). Your game is most likely set to LDR only, so it can't find any lighting for LDR and then applies fullbright to your level. If you want to compile with standard LDR lighting as well, compile with both -ldr and -hdr. There's also a -both option, but that one is known to crash the compiler/not compile HDR at all. So just use -ldr and -hdr.

 

[Grubzer]

If you have -hdr you will only compile in HDR (high dynamic range), not LDR(low dynamic range, the setting the game runs at with standard settings). Your game is most likely set to LDR only, so it can't find any lighting for LDR and then applies fullbright to your level. If you want to compile with standard LDR lighting as well, compile with both -ldr and -hdr. There's also a -both option, but that one is known to crash the compiler/not compile HDR at all. So just use -ldr and -hdr.

How do i set my game to hdr?

 

[Another Bad Pun]

I'm pretty sure you can compile with only -ldr and cause no issues, but compiling with -hdr only will probably cause problems.
Using the -both variable works on the standard compiler just fine, I'm not sure why it wouldn't work in compile pal.

If your computer can run HDR, you can enable it in Video Options or through the developer console.
mat_hdr_level 0 is LDR
mat_hdr_level 2 is standard HDR

 

[Dr. Orange]

mat_hdr_level 0 is LDR
mat_hdr_level 2 is standard HDR

There's something I've always wondered, though. What's mat_hdr_level 1? It doesn't seem to do anything whenever I try to use it.

 

[Another Bad Pun]

There's something I've always wondered, though. What's mat_hdr_level 1? It doesn't seem to do anything whenever I try to use it.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
it probably does nothing tbh

 

[Grubzer]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
it probably does nothing tbh

Mat_hdr_level 1 is ldr + bloom

 

[Grubzer]

It changes this

 

[Grubzer]

But for me, full hdr looks ugly...

 

[Pocket]

Probably because you didn't set the exposure limits. The defaults are pretty extreme, for some reason — maybe to alert you that you compiled in HDR without setting them manually. Anyway, I recommend looking up env_tonemap_controller and how to use it.