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FSX "No Base Specular" not recognised

YohanNaz

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Arno,

After importing my .mdl file into latest dev release of MCX, the material setting for "No Base Specular" shows "False" when I have it set to true before saving out to a .X file. I compile that using the P3D SDK XtoMDL tool then import into MCX. This seems to be the only setting that isn't carried over. Any ideas?

** I want to thank you for the material settings template save feature. MCX continues to amaze. :cool:
 
Hi,

I'll see if I can reproduce this.
 
Getting mixed results now and I think I have the reason why. The materials that don't get the "No Base Specular" setting have a Spec map in the specular texture slot. Materials with only a diffuse texture carry the setting over.

Hope this helps.
 
Hi,

That would make sense. The no base specular setting has no effect when a specular map is assigned anyway. So maybe that's why xtomdl ignores the setting.
 
arno said:
Hi,

That would make sense. The no base specular setting has no effect when a specular map is assigned anyway. So maybe that's why xtomdl ignores the setting.
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:o Thanks Arno, sry for wasting your time on this one. I suppose I knew this all along but with so many different tests and settings I haven't kept very good track of what is doing what. I thought that the no base specular setting controlled the use of the base material specular color? I suppose that it does in the case of no specular texture being present...

Always learning.
 
Hi,

Yes, the setting controls if the specular color is used. But if a specular map is applied than the specular color has no effect anymore. Then the specular color of each pixel is used instead.

But no problem posting this question. I didn't know that xtomdl would alter settings in that case. That is good to learn.
 
Hi,

I just checked and the FSX XtoMDL has the same behaviour as the Prepar3D one. So it seems by design that the "no base specular" setting is ignored if there is a specular map. As discussed above it kind of makes sense as well.
 
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