Materials Guide

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The Liero palette, particularly in the context of levels, implies a bespoke mapping of color indices to material properties. This mapping is fixed in WebLiero; perhaps it will be possible to modify it in the future. For now, modders should familiarize themselves with the mappings between materials and the Liero palette to inform palette choices and level design.

This document serves as a reference for the default WebLiero mappings. First, the material properties will be described and then the mapping will be enumerated alongside the default Liero palette.

There is little practical difference between Dirt and Dirt2 material properties-- the distinction does affect dirt effects in-game but physics-wise there is no difference.

Some materials combine more than one material property to produce interesting effects in-game. For instance, a material with both Dirt and Background flags will allow worms to pass through, but are still diggable and will collide with non-player objects.

Materials with no properties set are usually intended for sprites and not levels. However, they can still be placed in levels. Such materials will block players, are indestructible, but will allow non-player objects to pass through.