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# MDLMaterialSemantic.specular

The intensity of specular highlights that appear on the material’s surface.

```
case specular
```

## Discussion

Model I/O uses this semantic for the `Ks` and `map_Ks` attributes when importing from the MTL file format (for assets in the OBJ file format).

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