Looking back at my recent activity, I realized that I mostly use the forum to send/reply to DMs with people who aren't on the Discord server(usually just for casual chats or exchanging our levels). Other than that, I haven't really contributed much to the public side of the forum. I guess I should try to be more active there from now on!

If you want to interact with people more and chat about everyday things, I think the LF Discord server is the better place. I've noticed that many people who only check the forum occasionally are active on Discord almost every day. Of course, as everyone else has already pointed out, the forum still serves an important purpose. It's the better place for larger projects and things that need to be preserved for the long term.

For reference - levels from both Win95 Lemmings and Warren Gaylen's WinLems can be converted to NeoLemmix (and from there to many of the other modern engines, if you prefer another one - though NeoLemmix is generally the "gold standard"), but you'll need to use a slightly older version of NL (12.9 or earlier) to do so.

Quote from: Lana T. on April 26, 2026, 02:21:01 PMIf there's anything I can do to support the forum, please let me know, I don't want it to be replaced...

If you mean like financial support then there's a thread on how to donate: https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=2001.0.

Quoting from the thread:

QuoteAs of the server move on 2018-08-17, we no longer have an automatic facility for making donations. If you would like to donate, please contact namida regarding how to do so manually.

So you'll need to contact Namida manually for how to donate.

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Quote from: namida on August 03, 2026, 03:12:28 AMI see the two as complementary, not as one replacing the other.

Discord is much better suited to quick chats, collab projects / challenges, etc. Whereas the forum is much better suited to larger info-dumps, sharing content, etc. Both are an important part of the community, and I don't see either one going anywhere any time soon.

Yeah agreed. This is basically what I said to Lana on the "General Comings and Goings" thread she's referring to by "Silken told me that almost everyone is on Discord now," though in actuality I said that it was about 50-50 and that Discord was "as active if not more" (implying if Discord was more active then the forums, only a bit above 50%), not that "almost everyone is on Discord now," but maybe I didn't verbalize it well enough and made it seem like Discord is comparatively more active then the Forums then I meant to communicate in actuality. Although that being said Lana didn't say "almost everyone is exclusively on Discord now" she could have just meant almost everyone is on Discord as well as the forums so that wasn't necessarily a misunderstanding of what I said in the General Coming and Goings thread.

Quote from: Lana T. on April 26, 2026, 02:21:01 PMHow many people are using the forum nowadays? It seems less active than before my break. Silken told me that almost everyone is on Discord now, but is everything taking place there? If there's anything I can do to support the forum, please let me know, I don't want it to be replaced...

I see the two as complementary, not as one replacing the other.

Discord is much better suited to quick chats, collab projects / challenges, etc. Whereas the forum is much better suited to larger info-dumps, sharing content, etc. Both are an important part of the community, and I don't see either one going anywhere any time soon.

I've looked everywhere but can't find the original suggestion. I'm pretty sure it was from Lana.

She suggested that Lemmini could have 'Parental' settings which display a 'take a break' message at certain intervals, and remove the blood from trap animations.

I've all but implemented the second of these suggestions. Style authors can provide '_pg' suffixed versions of any sprite in the style. If RetroLemmini finds the PG version, and the user has toggled the 'family friendly sprites' option ON in settings, it loads that one instead.

Initial implementation in RLPlayer commit 08d1c67.

I do need a bit of help with this though.

Firstly, it's difficult to decide which of the trap animations should be given PG variants. The ones that feature blood can be edited to be less gory, but what about the others?

Secondly, the editing work will require an artist's hand. If anyone wants to volunteer to do this, I'd be very grateful for the help. It will basically entail editing the OG (orig/ohno) styles' trap animations to be as un-gory as possible.

Also, how should the feature be worded in the Options menu? I've currently gone with 'Use family-friendly sprites if available', indicating the main aspects of the feature:

1) It's the animations themselves that have been edited
2) The intention is to make them less graphic
3) Some styles may not provide such alternatives (the original styles will all have PG variants included, but custom styles made by Forum users may not)

Any other thoughts/suggestions regarding this?

Since the RetroLemmini Editor has the F12 Playtest feature, I'd say this just about qualifies it as being an integral Editor, albeit one that exists as a separate program from the game itself.

Closing this as resolved ✓.

Quote from: Lana T. on April 26, 2026, 02:21:01 PMIf there's anything I can do to support the forum, please let me know, I don't want it to be replaced...

The 3 best things you can do to support the Forum:

1) Reply to topics/posts, even if it's just to say that you've read it
2) Start/continue ongoing conversations
3) Tell people about it! https://www.lemmingsforums.net

Quote from: Simon on June 11, 2026, 03:52:21 PMIn all strictness, I play background music from random sources without permission. Unsure yet if I want that on Youtube.

I'll probably use archive.org to upload them to not YouTube.

Welcome to the forums!

Thanks for sharing the level pictures. It's always lovely to see new ways to use these old tilesets. Nice artwork! Every author has his own unique style.

With "WinLems", do you mean WinLems by Warren Gaylen (from 2007, which looks like it accepts .DAT files) or do you mean Lemmings for Windows 95 (whose directory is also called Winlemm)? It's a nastily similar name. I believe neither of these two games has active players here. From early 2025: Giga's topic about Warren Gaylen's WinLems

You can attach your levels. Or you can upload .DAT packs to Mindless's Lemmings Level Database.

-- Simon

In the file menu, is it possible to add an 'open recent' rolling menu with sometimes like the ten last levels worked on ?

All editors I use outside NL have this handy option, and I miss it here.