Since September blender 2.79 is released and I wanted to start using the new color management options in blender.
Unfortunately I do not have the new option in the “Color Management” section of the “Scene” tab.
The “Look” dropdown shows None only
The “View” dropdown shows Default only
I chose Cycles as the renderer and tried both, CPU and CUDA.
I tried also the supported and experimental.
I wiped off all blender installs of my computer and did a fresh install.
No success.
Is there any hidden switch that enables these options?
Does anyone else have this issue?
No, they should be there by default. I’m guessing Blender can’t find the colormanagement data folder. You could try searching for it. I don’t know where it is installed on Windows(assuming it is Win of course).
Try downloading the .zip version instead of the installer, as it is more self contained; or wait for a Windows user to stop by here.
I’ve been having this happen on project that have been made in older Blender versions, however when I start Blender fresh or open a more current scene, the options are there. It’s like somehow the old default color management system came with the files.
Update: Found the issue, change your display device to sRGB and you should see the options.
Thanks guys!
I completely forgot to mention my system Details:
Windows 10 Pro (10.0.15063)
Core i7 5820K,
16GB RAM
nvidia GeForce GTX 760
I got the installer (MSI) from blender.org. I never tried the ZIP file, will try this…
The “display device to sRGB” did not help in my case.
I found out that this happens after a blender crash. Restarting blender dis not help. But the next day I started blender with -d option and the color management was back again - I not yet sure if this is a reliable procedure.
I will further try to find a rule behind it.
I figured it out: I am having three shortcuts that open blender. 1) Windows Startmenu, 2) Link on my desktop, 3) A shortcut on my ObjectDock Bar.
The latter is a Mac-style start bar (by Stardock).
When I am starting blender from the ObjectDock shortcut, it seems to start blender in a different environment / with different permissions, where I am not aware what it is in detail (it is not the working directory).
I started blender 10 times from there and had no filmic option available.
I started blender 10 times from the desktop and startmenu and every time the options showed up as expected.
It was difficult to figure that out, because I randomly used one of these three shortcuts - so I randomly had the issue.
THANKS!