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I am making a very simple animation - a thin torus that spins. I want the object to be sharp and pure white.

This is my material, it has an Emission shader with a 1 value which is supposed to render as white pixels:

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But as we can see in the Preview, the object renders as grey. The Hex value in Blender says "FFFFFF" but the eyedropper from ColorSlurp says otherwise:

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Why is this object not pure white?

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The color is "off" because the default View Transform for Blender is Filmic (Good for HDR, but can be less "accurate")- Go into Color Management (Under Render Properties), and change your View Transform to Standard:

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  • $\begingroup$ I'm sorry if you think the question is redundant, but I searched for a similar question for a good 10 minutes... this was never the way Blender used to work. "White background with filmic blender" is a question title no one will ever type when having this issue 😉 $\endgroup$ Commented Jun 15, 2022 at 23:00
  • $\begingroup$ Thanks for the answer, it's really upsetting that they made a standard something that changes the color set by the user... $\endgroup$ Commented Jun 15, 2022 at 23:31
  • $\begingroup$ The purpose is to better support HDR renders, but the color data gets scaled into a much wider range, thus making it "inaccurate" to what it's "supposed" to be. $\endgroup$ Commented Jun 15, 2022 at 23:41
  • $\begingroup$ I am sure there is a "purpose" however maybe this setting could have been activated when there is a need for it, or not be a default. I've never rendered a HDR scene or needed this feature in 7 years of using Blender. Oh well... now I know. Until I forget and ask again 😅 $\endgroup$ Commented Jun 15, 2022 at 23:43

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