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MCX - Specular Color reverts back to White

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I have a specific MCX material template I created a while back for transparent vegetation models. When I made the template, I accidentally left the Specular Color as White. (255.255.255) Now if I apply this preset and attempt to change the Specular Color to Black, (0.0.0) it reverts back to White upon saving the MDL. I assume this is likely a bug with the preset being used..

That being said, It would also be nice if you could eventually add an option to edit (and maybe save/export?) material templates down the road.
 
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Hi,

The templates are already saved, you'll find them in the templates folder in MCX. But they are serialized in binary form, so it's not really readable.

It's a long time ago I used the template editor, but I think you should be able to edit a template in there.

Also the template is only applied when you click the button. Colours would not change due to the template at a later moment. So you can safely edit the material afterwards.

Does it happen when exporting the MDL? XtoMDL sometimes changes settings that are not used/relevant.
 
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arno said:
Hi,

The templates are already saved, you'll find them in the templates folder in MCX. But they are serialized in binary form, so it's not really readable.

It's a long time ago I used the template editor, but I think you should be able to edit a template in there.

Also the template is only applied when you click the button. Colours would not change due to the template at a later moment. So you can safely edit the material afterwards.

Does it happen when exporting the MDL? XtoMDL sometimes changes settings that are not used/relevant.
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Hi Arno.
Good to know about the template saving. I'll have to look deeper for a way to edit the template.

About the Specular Color change, yes it happens when you export the file to an MDL. It could possibly be that one of the settings I have selected tells XtoMDL to ignore Specular Color all together.. I hadn't thought of that. :scratchch I'll have to pay closer attention to the models in the sim to see if the Specular actually shows up.
 
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