Anybody know if mudbox exports it’s exr texture files as linear?

thanks

what do you mean by linear.?

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/christoph-schaedl/6/558/73b

32 bit EXR for displacment maps is independant of rendering in linear space.

In fact, all scalar maps are independant -bumps and spec maps included, and they do not need to be gamma corrected.

The only time you may want to use linear space is for painting the color maps but your monitor will display in non-linear, and any photo textures be non-linear, and editing textures in photoshop will be non-linear (exr is severely limited in photoshop) so you will not be able to accurately judge the color values unless you adress all of these issues.

In short, when texturing....its simpler to work in non-linear, and gamma correct at the lighting/rendering stage.

Rendering in linear space is only for getting more accurate and controllable lighting.  But because of the hardware limitations, texturing in linear space is next to impossible.

Mudbox does its painting and processing in the bit depth of the target texture layer. So it can be 8bpc, 16 bpc int, 16 bpc float, and 32bpc float.

Mudbox is not doing any gamma correction on these texture layers.

When you export a layer it’s not linear color space ?

scalar maps such as displacement, bump, and spec are in linear.  Color maps are sRgb because you are painting in sRgb (your monitor color space)