I'm playing a bit with the Three.js cloth example but instead of the alphaMap, I kept the cloth-plane fully opaque and changed its color map. The result is quite disappointing as the texture now renders very grayish due to the OutputEncoding of the renderer (sRGB Encoding). If I change the output encoding back to LinearEncoding, the grass texture appears to be too dark.
Below is the result:
And the original textures look like this:
Is there any way to remain with the sRGBEncoding but have my cloth texture render with much more contrast?
Yes. Just set the encoding property of your texture to
THREE.sRGBEncoding.The default encoding value of textures is
THREE.LinearEncoding. So if you don't modify it but a configure a sRGB workflow on renderer level, color textures will indeed look incorrect.