Editing specularity value in .mtl files.

[Upon Infinity]

Anyone have experience editing .mtl files.  I know you can view the code in notepad, but I find that the specularity on objects I create is often set to 1, when I'd rather have it at 0.

[Dune]

I think if you open in text editor and do a search and replace (specularity=1 into specularity=0, or whatever it's called exactly), it would work. Just test with a simple file.

[El Kabong]

If this is any help, from wiki   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavefront_.obj_file

The specular color is declared using Ks, and weighted using the specular exponent Ns.

Ks 0.000 0.000 0.000     # black (off)
Ns 10.000                # ranges between 0 and 1000

[luvsmuzik]

Thanks for that link!

[bobbystahr]

Anyone have experience editing .mtl files.  I know you can view the code in notepad, but I find that the specularity on objects I create is often set to 1, when I'd rather have it at 0.

I run everything through PoseRay for mainly that function as a lot of imported .3ds or .obj seem to have that setting

[Upon Infinity]

If this is any help, from wiki   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavefront_.obj_file

The specular color is declared using Ks, and weighted using the specular exponent Ns.

Ks 0.000 0.000 0.000     # black (off)
Ns 10.000                # ranges between 0 and 1000

Sorry for the late reply.  Thanks, El Kabong, exactly what I was looking for!

Yeah, Bobby, a lot of people swear by PoseRay.  I downloaded it once, but had trouble picking it up.  I suppose as long as I have some workarounds, I can keep putting off having to learn it.

Ideally, I should be able to switch specularity off in the modelling software (3D Coat).  Haven't figured it out, as yet.

[El Kabong]

In Poseray
Materials tab then Tools tab pull down
Fix Specular Levels