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FSX MCX ignores specular color

pinkjr

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Hi Arno,

I posted this same issue about 4 years ago and at that time there may have been an issue with using material templates and essentially not saving specular colors in the mdl.

I'm having similar issues again, where I open the FSX model, assign black specular (0,0,0), save as mdl, but when I reopen the model it comes back with pure with white specular color. The model does not have specular texture. I also save Specular Level at 0, but comes back at 50 when I re-open it. Texture IS a transparency.

Am I missing a setting? I also have the flag IGNORE SPECULAR COLOR set = FALSE. TRUE yields the same result.

Thanks,
DavidR
 
Hi David,

I just did a quick test here, but if I set the specular color and export to MDL the setting is kept. I do see that the specular level setting is not always kept.

When you set ignore specular color to true, I think XtoMDL will no longer store the specular color. So in that case it could be that you see that some settings are not saved.
 
Thanks Arno. I think it's the same issue as before. If you ever apply a material template to either the model or .dae format, it defaults white. It must be toggling something inside the model. I just tried editing the model without the template, and manually entered transparency settings, and it saved the specular color. Go figure!
 
Which template are you using? Is it one that you made yourself? Let me see if I can reproduce it that way.
 
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