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Anyone here remember LieroM8/Lierokit? Such good times hacking away at this game in year 8 with my mate. There's nothing quite like an automatic bananabomb-blun

Anyone here remember LieroM8/Lierokit? Such good times hacking away at this game in year 8 with my mate. There's nothing quite like an automatic bananabomb-blunderbus and low friction/gravity to speed the game up...

gliptic 6y ago
Glad you liked it. It was fun to figure out all the ways you could mod the game too. /Author of LieroKit
- rwnspace 6y ago
  Thank you. Your software is a big part of some of my fondest memories :)
- albertzeyer 6y ago
  Hi Gliptic! Nice to see you here. :)
  - gliptic 6y ago
    Likewise :)
- hipnoizz 6y ago
  Thanks as well! I have extremely awesome memories of playing Liero 1.33 and then Liero with ProMode like... 20 years ago? And ProMode was possible due to the tools your have created. I even fooled around a bit in Polish forums and IRC channels related to the Liero 'scene'... I remember that you were reverse engineering Liero as Joosa lost the source code. Also there were some other attempts to recreate the feel of Liero with projects like Wurmz etc. I kind of stopped playing Liero back then but from what I remember 'physics' in those clones was always missing something. So TIL that there is Liero 1.36 and I wonder if it can brings those old memories ;-)
wgetch 6y ago
It's a secret to everyone, but it is possible to run a WebLiero server with custom mods by providing a json/json5 file and a wlsprt file (which uses a custom but simple binary format) to the in-game "/loadmod" command. At this time, however, the author is still developing mod support and the formats (JSON schema in particular) are subject to change so... caveat emptor. That said, if anyone is interested in tweaking WebLiero mods and is not afraid to get their hands dirty, I wrote a (very rudimentary) program to convert .wlsprt to a folder of indexed-color PNG files and vice-versa[1]. You'll probably also want a copy of the "official" mods to use as a reference[2]. At the risk of counting chickens before they hatch, I am actually in the process of writing a mod editor in the spirit of LieroKit/LieroM8 that would smooth some of the rough edges of modding this game. I'm calling it WebLieroKit, unfortunately due to the timing of this post making the front page I cannot provide a working demo but I felt it was worth mentioning while there are eyeballs around. [1] https://phazon.xyz/files/liero/wltools.tar.gz https://phazon.xyz/files/liero/wltools.tar.gz [2] https://phazon.xyz/files/liero/mods.tar.gz https://phazon.xyz/files/liero/mods.tar.gz

gliptic 6y ago

Glad you liked it. It was fun to figure out all the ways you could mod the game too. /Author of LieroKit

rwnspace 6y ago
Thank you. Your software is a big part of some of my fondest memories :)
albertzeyer 6y ago
Hi Gliptic! Nice to see you here. :)
- gliptic 6y ago
  Likewise :)
hipnoizz 6y ago
Thanks as well! I have extremely awesome memories of playing Liero 1.33 and then Liero with ProMode like... 20 years ago? And ProMode was possible due to the tools your have created. I even fooled around a bit in Polish forums and IRC channels related to the Liero 'scene'... I remember that you were reverse engineering Liero as Joosa lost the source code. Also there were some other attempts to recreate the feel of Liero with projects like Wurmz etc. I kind of stopped playing Liero back then but from what I remember 'physics' in those clones was always missing something. So TIL that there is Liero 1.36 and I wonder if it can brings those old memories ;-)

wgetch 6y ago

It's a secret to everyone, but it is possible to run a WebLiero server with custom mods by providing a json/json5 file and a wlsprt file (which uses a custom but simple binary format) to the in-game "/loadmod" command. At this time, however, the author is still developing mod support and the formats (JSON schema in particular) are subject to change so... caveat emptor. That said, if anyone is interested in tweaking WebLiero mods and is not afraid to get their hands dirty, I wrote a (very rudimentary) program to convert .wlsprt to a folder of indexed-color PNG files and vice-versa[1]. You'll probably also want a copy of the "official" mods to use as a reference[2]. At the risk of counting chickens before they hatch, I am actually in the process of writing a mod editor in the spirit of LieroKit/LieroM8 that would smooth some of the rough edges of modding this game. I'm calling it WebLieroKit, unfortunately due to the timing of this post making the front page I cannot provide a working demo but I felt it was worth mentioning while there are eyeballs around. [1] https://phazon.xyz/files/liero/wltools.tar.gz https://phazon.xyz/files/liero/wltools.tar.gz [2] https://phazon.xyz/files/liero/mods.tar.gz https://phazon.xyz/files/liero/mods.tar.gz