Hi Morat,

Just an idea.
Could the harsh light you have in Blender be caused by having Ambient Occlusion checked on in the World panel ?

Michel

Hi all

I resolved this issue. When Blender creates the material on import it defaults the specular shader to CookTorr with a Hardness setting of 1, which basically means 'massive specular highlight that covers almost all the model'. Either decreasing the specular intensity or increasing the hardness fixes it.

Hi Morat & Stefan, you might want to report that as a bug to Blender, it seems odd to use something that looks strange as the default.

Also maybe Blender is not paying attention to the Ns 0 line in the .mtl file, that should be interpreted as specular being off.

- Michael