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Re: [ocs-dev] Got Luts?

"Nathaniel Hoffman" <na...@...>
 

Jeremy,

There are two LUT formats I know of that are used in game development.

One is a 2D image format (any lossless image format will do - we've used
BMP, TGA and PNG) with a 2D representation of the LUT where the planes
along the 3rd axis have been placed next to each other. So a 32x32x32 LUT
would turn into a 1024x32 2D image. A common usage is for an identity LUT
in this format to be placed next to an ungraded screenshot, both
manipulated in Photoshop or some other color manipulation package, and
then the colorized LUT is extracted.

The other format is a DDS (Microsoft DirectDraw Surface) file with a 3D
texture in it, typically uncompressed. This is usually loaded directly
into the game engine.

These are both a bit ad-hoc and not really standardized, so I don't know
if they are relevant for OCS. If they are, let me know and I can try to
work up something more like an actual spec for each of these.

Thanks,

Naty

Hello!

I'm at the stage where I would like to get a survey of lut file
formats (1d, 3d, matrix, etc) that folks actually use in the wild.

If you commonly use a lut format at your facility, or define one in
your software package, I would hugely appreciate it if you could
upload example files and/or spec documents so I can begin work on the
importers.

Even if it's a proprietary format, I'd love to take a peek so I can
get a sense of the scope of formats out in the wild. (I need to make
sure the internal API is rich enough to encompass current use cases).

Many formats have been mentioned previously, including:
- Truelight ASCII .cub 3D lut
- Assimilate Scratch (Arri /Kodak .3dl)
- Iridas Framecycler (Iridas .cube)
- Autodesk (MESH3D, .lut, etc.)

For the majority of these, I do not have either example files or
specifications. Please help! :)

Also, does anyone know if the majority of lut formats identifiable by
their extension? Are there common extension conflicts? Ideally, I'd
like to try and have format reader registered based on file extension,
and only if that fails give each lut loader a chance to read it.
(Similar to how reader plugins work in nuke).

(Note that I'm not assuming 1 file == 1 lut. (We will support readers
where 1 file can generate multiple transforms, such as a 1d shaper lut
-> 3d lut -> 1d shaper lut.))
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