I’m trying to create a PBR texture in Node Material, but when I switch to Environment lighting it becomes black for some reason. What am I doing wrong? Is it possible that using an HDRI for PBR lighting is not the right approach? P.S. I’m working on a furniture project where I want physically cor…

It all depends on the environment texture you use: environment.env: [image] forest.env: [image] country.env: [image] room.env: [image] and so on. You can also build your own environment. See Using An HDR Environment For PBR for more information.

cc @PatrickRyan , I don’t quite understand why simply modifying the albedo texture (you only modified that one, right?) would have such an impact on the lighting…

I only change the texture set; I don’t touch anything else. In the first case, it looks very dark, even though the Albedo is clearly light. In the second texture, the Albedo looks very similar, but the final result is much brighter. [image] [image] [image] [image]

[image] I found the cause of the darkness. It was the AO texture — it was too dark. Thanks everyone for the help :slightly_smiling_face: I hope this helps someone who runs into the same problem.

After testing it several more times, I noticed that the resulting texture looked very different from the original. It turned out that I had connected the wrong output — I should have connected DiffuseDir instead of Lighting. However, I ran into another issue: when the Environment lighting is enable…

Can you share a repro in the forum ?

https://nme.babylonjs.com/?webgpu#PATTDN

diffuseDir corresponds to the diffuse component of the direct lighting: if you don’t select any direct lights in the preview, you will see a black mesh. [image] With some lights selected: [image] Note that all outputs of PBRMetallicRoughness are in linear space, except for lighting! That’s bec…

Then use diffuseInd instead (Ind is for Indirect, which is the environment): [image]

Yes, I tried that as well. But in the end, the texture in the scene doesn’t look the same as the original texture. Here is a clear example comparing the original texture and how it looks in the scene. Maybe I’m doing something wrong with the lighting? Or something else — I don’t really understand. …

Black PBR texture under Environment lighting in Node Material

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Sambler January 28, 2026, 9:58am 18

I see this as well, but I need everything to work specifically with environment lighting.

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Black PBR texture under Environment lighting in Node Material

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