Finding files with 16 bit at least height info?

gnoop · 1:31PM

I wonder what people use for that. I remember I had a nice looking pretty long stripe of lumpy dirt with tire tracks and dried streams by Reality Capture years ago but couldn't find it any more. When I try to filter search result by "bit depth" in Adobe Bridge it misses a half it seems. Same with Lightroom classic . Can't find those with height in alpha. For some uncertain reason I can't find a DAM or search engine that's able to looks for 16 or higher bit depth images and not missing lots of them. So I never sure it all I have .

Does anyone know why? Any soft that could do it reliably?

Eric Chadwick · 2:50PM

I would recommend asset libraries like these
https://polyhaven.com/textures
https://www.textures.com/library
https://ambientcg.com/list?type=material&sort=popular

But searching across all of them, I guess you could make a list of sites that provide 16bit files, then limit your search engine to trawl only those sites.

gnoop · 3:12PM

Thanks Eric . I actually meant local files and backups searching , not internet resources. Those texture libraries are nice indeed but never provide you with something exactly what you want and usually limited to small 2x2m patches that gives very distinctive look to game environments lacking mid-frequency details across material coverage, bring a certain simplified robotic look imo. That's why I value high those big scanned pieces done by photogrammetry over those libraries even resulting in a special more important layer of much bigger texel size. Rght now I need to find a few specific ones I sure have somewhere but sort of lost .

Eric Chadwick · 3:50PM

Oh. Then you need a local DAM kind of setup. That usually requires good metadata hygiene though, which is a pain to maintain. Nobody wants to do that.

If you're using Windows you can sort your searches by file metadata, like Bit Depth. You can change the search result view to Details, then add columns like Bit Depth by opening the More list, and click the column to sort the results:

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/kn/q54idykfvu8e.png

gnoop · 3:56PM

Thanks Eric . I didn't even know it is there. looks like working better than Adobe Bridge.

Does anyone know what might be a quick search line syntax to use in file explorer "quick search" line to look for any image being not 8 , not 24 and not 32 bit usually associated with 8 bit per sample images ?

Eric Chadwick · 6:36PM

Like this?

Look for syntax here in the "Example" columns. I didn't see Bit Depth, so I just guessed it could be bitDepth:8
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/lwef/-search-2x-wds-aqsreference

gnoop · 6:41PM

cool link , thanks again Eric

Finding files with 16 bit at least height info?

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