Alright so, the main update here is obviously the new Talismans feature. It hasn't been added to the official games yet - further discussion on these is needed. Nor has it been added to Copycat Lemmings yet; I'm mostly waiting to hear Essman's ideas on this one. They're being added to the Lemmings Plus series, and official updates being made for such. However, they
can be used in custom Flexi-based packs!
Please note that these cannot be added to NeoCustLemmix level packs. I do not plan to support this.
V1.34n
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* Added a "Talismans" option (basically just achievements with a Lemmings-themed name).
So far, these have not been added to the official games, but can be used in custom
packs on the Flexi player and are in the process of being added to the Lemmings Plus
games.
* Copycat Lemmings now uses new-format graphic sets, and levels are adjusted accordingly.
* Fixed the bug where pickup skill cloners were not taken into account for Cloner-adjusted
percentages.
* Mayhem 26 in Orig has had its blockers re-added.
V1.34n-B
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* The Mechanic skill has been renamed to Disarmer
* The Shift key can be held while selecting a lemming to ensure that only a lemming with no
previous skills assigned to it will be selected
* The Alt key can be held while selecting a lemming to replace the normal action display
(eg. walker, builder, climber, etc) with one which shows which permanent skills it has.
The display will show six dashes, which will be replaced with letters if the lemming has
certain permanent skills:
- "C" for a Climber (1st dash)
- "S" for a Swimmer (2nd dash)
- "F" for a Floater (3rd dash)
- "G" for a Glider (3rd dash) - shares Floater's space since they're mutually exclusive
- "D" for a Disarmer (4th dash)
- "Z" for a Zombie (5th dash)
* Holding Ctrl while clicking a skill panel button has the same effect as right-clicking it.
This can be used when selecting the buttons via keyboard shortcuts, too; so for example,
you can press Ctrl+F2 for an instant release rate 99, or Ctrl+F3 to assign a climber to
the highlit lemming.
* Supports loading some extended header information from levels; it does not currently write
this extended information when dumping levels, nor does the editor save it. (The reason for
this is to have player support for it well before any levels using it exist.)
* When auto-save replays is enabled, the automatic filenames will now include the seconds
in the timestamp as well as the hour and minute; this virtually eliminates the chance of
one auto-save replay overwriting another one.
* Fixes the following bugs:
> Locked exits may unlock prematurely and/or fail to work if multiple lemmings hit a single
unlock button in the same frame
> Replays from the first rank can be loaded on the same level number in any rank, while replays
from the first level of a rank can be loaded on any level in that rank (with the first level
of the first rank being loadable in any level in the same pack)
> The LPIV Candy graphic set has a minor graphical glitch on the one-way-down arrows
> If a lemming is highlit, it becomes un-highlit when a backwards frame jump, load state, etc
is performed, even if the lemming still exists at the point jumped to
> The game crashes when a level starts if the level uses an entrance which only has a single
animation frameV1.34n-C
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* VGASPEC files can now have defined autosteel and one-way areas. To do this, they should
be in the new format (ie: graphic sets without objects); the first terrain piece should be
the level image (including the steel / one way areas!), the second piece should be only the
steel areas, and the third piece should be only the one-way areas.
* NeoCustLemmix and Flexi now include the LPIV Clockwork graphic set.
* Fixed the following bugs:
> A lemming that falls a fatal distance onto terrain, where that terrain is also the top
pixel of a water trigger area, while assigned the swimmer skill, will become stuck in
that position while doing nothing
> A moving background object placed far outside the level's boundaries may suddenly appear
out of nowhere after enough time has passed during play
> Oddtabled levels weren't working at all in V1.34n-B.Downloads:
DropBoxNeoLemmix Website:
Players |
Cust |
Flexi
The LemMain update adds support for the Talisman graphics. When extracting a NeoLemmix V1.29n+ MAIN.DAT that doesn't contain talisman images, they'll just be blank. The included MAIN.DAT file does contain them, so you can extract that to get a copy of them. (Remember, you can use the override images + the "extract and rebuild" features to easily add them to an existing MAIN.DAT). Sorry, there isn't a new and more user-friendly MAIN.DAT tool yet; it's still on the todo list.
Downloads:
DropBoxNeoLemmix Website
There's also a BETA version of the Talisman Editor available, so that you can add talismans to your custom packs. The generated TALISMAN.DAT file should be included in the same way as any other DAT file. When creating talismans using this, be sure to use the "Import LVL" button (or manually copy the level's normal save requirement, time limit, skill limits etc - but that's the much harder way to do it); this will copy the level's regular save requirement and so on into the talismans' requirements. This is important because forced skillset, challenge mode and timer mode do
not prevent talismans from being received - this is by design; although I don't plan on doing so for my own packs, it's to allow people to make talismans that go outside the normal skillset / time limit and have the player use these modes to get them. When you import a level, it does not have to be in the LookForLVLFiles-style filename, but
if it is, the level's rank and number will also be automatically set.
For reference, a "Hidden" talisman won't show up in-game; the purpose of it is that you can still use these to unlock secret levels.
I'll explain better how to use this tool at a later point, but for now, if you have any questions feel free to ask.
EDIT: I should probably explain the "Signature" field. This is just a unique reference number for each talisman, used so that they can be kept track of even if the ordering and/or parameters change. It's a hexidecimal value, and can be anywhere between x00000001 and xFFFFFFFF; all that matters is that it's unique for each talisman. Zero is not a valid value, so any that are set to zero will be assigned one automatically when you save the file. Thus, you pretty much can ignore this field; but it's there just in case.
Download:
DropBox(For now, I haven't uploaded it to the NeoLemmix website.)
There is no editor update, as there is no new V1.34n feature that requires an editor update. Thus, if any further bugfix / feature improvement updates do occur, at this point they'd be labelled V1.33n-D and so on rather than V1.34n-A (This is in keeping with the main version number being the lowest player version that fully supports the level and graphic set formats and features it uses; not nessecerially the most recent player version.)
