material_2d

2D: how a sprite, tilemap or backdrop_2d answers 2D light, and its effects. mode "unlit", "lit" (painted art) or "lit_pixel" (pixel art: stepped light on the art's own pixels). normal: "" uses .normal.png if present, "auto" makes one from the art, "flat", or a file. emissive: "" uses .emissive.png if present, "auto" (brightest warm pixels: flames, windows), "none", or a file; glowing parts bloom. Effects: flash, dissolve, heat (scripts: self.flash(), self.dissolve(), self.heat()).

In scene text

material_2d { mode "…"  normal "…"  normal_strength 1 }

Add it in the Inspector (Add Component), in scene text as above, or ask your AI. Fields you leave out keep their defaults.

Fields 22

Field	Type	Unit / range	What it does
`mode`	text	—	lit
`normal`	text	—
`normal_strength`	number	0 … 8	How strongly the normal map tilts the light.
`bevel`	number	px, 0 … 128	Auto normals: how wide the rounded edge is (image pixels).
`relief`	number	0 … 4	Auto normals: how much the art's own shading reads as relief.
`emissive`	text	—
`emissive_color`	colour (r, g, b)	—	Multiplies the glow's colour.
`emissive_intensity`	number	0 … 64	How bright the glow is (0: none).
`emissive_threshold`	number	0 … 1	Auto glow: how bright a pixel must be to glow.
`bloom`	number	0 … 16	How much of its glow blooms into a halo.
`specular`	number	0 … 4	Shine (0 matte ... 1 wet; shows with a normal map).
`shininess`	number	1 … 512	Highlight size: 4 broad ... 128 a pin point.
`bands`	number	0 … 32	lit_pixel: how many steps the light falls into (0: 4).
`light_mask`	number	1 … 65535	Light layers it receives (bit mask).
`receive_shadows`	true / false	—	Darkened by shadows from occluders.
`flash`	number	0 … 1	Effect: flash toward flash_color (a hit).
`flash_color`	colour (r, g, b)	—	Flash colour.
`dissolve`	number	0 … 1	Effect: burned away (0 whole ... 1 gone), edge glowing dissolve_color.
`dissolve_color`	colour (r, g, b)	—	The burning edge's colour.
`dissolve_width`	number	0 … 1	How wide the burning edge is.
`heat`	number	units, 0 … 200	Effect: heat haze (world units of shimmer); the object bends what's behind it instead of drawing itself.
`heat_speed`	number	0 … 20	How fast the haze shimmers.

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