# Use Babylon to load HDR textures **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions\ **Created:** [December 31, 2020, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/use-babylon-to-load-hdr-textures/17048 "2020-12-31T13:39:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Paolo\_Ferri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/forum.babylonjs.com/paolo_ferri/32/13272_2.png) [@Paolo\_Ferri](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/Paolo_Ferri)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/use-babylon-to-load-hdr-textures/17048/1 "2020-12-31T13:39:18Z")
Hello everyone, In a moment of desperation I decided to seek help here. I’m writing my own Webgl2 renderer, and I’m at the point where I need to load .hdr images. Well, I’m not sure how, it seems like the classic “const image = new Image()” and so on doesn’t work with this format. I was wondering if Babylon could help with that: all I need is to load the image, so I can then use it as a regular texture in my shaders (binding, sampling, and so on) Is this possible at all? Thanks, and happy new year (only a couple of hours left to the new year here in Australia) ---
**Author:** ![sebavan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/forum.babylonjs.com/sebavan/32/57_2.png) [@sebavan](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/sebavan)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 2:46pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/use-babylon-to-load-hdr-textures/17048/2 "2020-12-31T14:46:34Z")
Yup we do it in Babylon like this: [Babylon.js/hdr.ts at master · BabylonJS/Babylon.js · GitHub](https://github.com/BabylonJS/Babylon.js/blob/master/src/Misc/HighDynamicRange/hdr.ts) ---
**Author:** ![Paolo\_Ferri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/forum.babylonjs.com/paolo_ferri/32/13272_2.png) [@Paolo\_Ferri](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/Paolo_Ferri)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 6:06am UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/use-babylon-to-load-hdr-textures/17048/3 "2021-01-02T06:06:58Z")
That worked well, thanks!