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.

Black PBR texture under Environment lighting in Node Material

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Evgeni_Popov January 20, 2026, 8:09am 2

You must connect a ReflectionBlock to the reflection input for environment lighting to work as expected:

https://nme.babylonjs.com/#423PH6#2

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Black PBR texture under Environment lighting in Node Material

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