Textures

When you import an image, the setting that matters most is its color space. It tells the engine how to interpret and compress the pixels, and the wrong choice gives washed-out color or broken normals. Set it on the Texture asset.

Color space

Color space	Use for	Stored as
sRGB	Color maps: albedo, emissive, UI. The default.	BC7 (sRGB)
Linear	Non-color data: masks, single channels.	BC7
Normal Map	Tangent-space normal maps.	BC5 (XY, with Z rebuilt in the shader)
Packed Data	Packed PBR maps, for example occlusion / roughness / metallic in one image.	BC7
Environment	HDR panoramas for sky and image-based lighting.	RGBA16F, uncompressed
Auto	Chosen automatically from the filename.	(resolved on import)

The rules that matter:

• Color images are sRGB, everything else is Linear. Tagging a mask or a roughness map as sRGB shifts its values; tagging albedo as Linear washes out the color.
• Normal maps must be set to Normal Map. They are stored in two channels and the shader rebuilds the third, so a normal map left on sRGB renders wrong.
• HDR panoramas use Environment. A .hdr is kept as uncompressed float so lighting reads true radiance, see Rendering.

Mip levels are always generated.

Auto detection

When color space is Auto, the engine guesses from the filename on import:

• .hdr files become Environment.
• _n, _normal, _nrm become Normal Map.
• _orm, _arm, _mra, and similar become Packed Data.
• _rough, _metal, _ao, _height, and similar become Linear.
• Anything else becomes sRGB.

Changing color space later

The color space is baked in when the texture is compressed, so changing the dropdown alone does not re-encode the image. Press Recook in the Texture editor to re-read the source file with the new setting.

Render targets

A Render Target is a separate texture type you draw into at runtime, for mirrors, in-world screens, or paintable surfaces. It has editable Width, Height, Format (RGBA8 or RGBA16F), and Clear Color.