Problems with sRGB and washed out textures

[Grimwolf]

@Poet_11

Concerning the diffuse:

Is there a reason why you are using a linear color 16 bit texture for diffuse? You seem to have SRGB unchecked for the diffuse texture which is turning it to “Linear color” that adjusts the gamma internally, this is why you are re-gamma correcting it by 2.2 to get the correct colors.

I imported your jpg texture into unreal, it came in looking fine with the default SRGB checked for diffuse.

• In general though I found using 8 bits across the board for all textures to be enough for almost all scenarios save a few.

I feel like I’m going crazy. I’ve been having this issue for years, and just today while investigating this problem I ONE HUNDRED PERCENT tested this as both 8-bit and 16-bit, with and without sRGB checked. I’m dead certain about that.
Yet after reading that I decided to triple-check and went back to setting it as an 8-bit PNG with sRGB checked, and it suddenly works. Just works
I even opened a new project to test it again under the assumption I might have changed something else in between without realizing it. But same thing. Just works.
What even is reality…
This does at least mean that they never fixed 16-bit textures, which they claimed to have done back in version 4.15 AGES ago.