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Title: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Simon on July 24, 2016, 06:28:34 AM
Simple 1 through Simple 10 on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsvRsp8Dg8w)
Simple 11 through Simple 20 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlXjHPJcisY)
Simple 21 through Simple 28 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99IC9DSYEE0)
Simple 29 through Simple 38 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAJ_cQEPxOM)
Simple 39 through Quirky 8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qudPQ4_s_ns)
Quirky 9 through Quirky 14 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoSfgImcDvA)
Quirky 15 through Quirky 20 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE5Nvq1nOBU)
Quirky 21 through Quirky 27 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9mapME6m3g)
Forest of Fears, Lix Lata (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UodFM0laF2w)
Quirky 29, 30 = Snowball Battle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1fla_tLvxs)
Quirky 31-34 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrMZRibaBLo)
Quirky 35-40 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok2Q2f8QMDI)
Cunning 1+2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5L_Oqtq3m4)
Cunning 3 through Cunning 5 = Lix Cannon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6b6mNC4aGE)
Cunning 6-10 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb2rKJxIAow)
Cunning 11-13 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxc4u9Mjwmw)
Cunning 14 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAtOjGNzu18)
Cunning 15-17 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-QthNK9Q24)
Cunning 18-22 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTiDQZQiOug)
Cunning 23-25 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u30qlNsMidU)
Cunning 26-28 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tkg-8qv02PU)
Cunning 29-30 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oudmaeWE-Bw)
Cunning 31-34 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGjpph1-_qc)
Cunning 35+36 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZSUrlA9mP8)
Cunning 37+38 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yb1_PsDBYU)
Cunning 39+40 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEIo7XBjV8M)
Daunting 1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69nEfSixdz4)
Daunting 2+3 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN5yH2yZpiE)
Daunting 4+5 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEflRXHJSNA)
Daunting 6 = Now This is Fun (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIV5qGl27ss)
Daunting 7-9 = Variety Day, Merge Sort, Backslash (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trws5bcXnKQ)
Daunting 10-11 = Go West, Stickup (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htm7JeJf5Sc) (sorting before v.0.9.12)
Daunting 2 = Round Trip (https://youtu.be/Q0BCnHko1NA)
Daunting 12-14 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AaE32eaUMs)
Daunting 15 = Railroad Plot (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqQynst8q6E)
Daunting 16-17 = Derailed Level, Lixes in Motion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVC5FNbLa8I) (does not solve Derailed Level)
Daunting 18-19 = Too Much Stepping Stones, Jack in the Box (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9o9bN8gg3I)
Daunting 20-22 = Slipping, Slipping Again, Lix Ferenda (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpekjPkzN24)
Daunting 23 = Segmentation Fault (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4MLbf_2gu4)
Daunting 24-26: Cornerstone, Repeating Patterns, The Crimson Room (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N4Fz_MSfeQ) (does not solve Repeating Patterns nor Crimson Room)
Derailed, Repeating, Crimson, Feel the Pressure, Beneath the Lab, Slaughterhouse (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cYIkSUUAPk)

Early videos show both Windows's mouse cursor and Lix's mouse cursor. This effect comes from the recording software, it puts Windows's cursor back into the video. Flopsy doesn't see the Windows cursor during play, not even during recording.

When you pull the mouse hard enough to a window side, Lix releases the mouse. This is a feature. Depending on your mouse speed in the game and in Windows, it feels like a bug instead. I fixed this in the later Simple levels.

SI, in the panel, means spawn interval, the physics updates between successive lix spawns. I should write that on hatches instead, during pause, and not use the abbreviation either.

-- Simon
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: namida on July 26, 2016, 10:11:41 AM
I would definitely say permanent trapping, or at least an option. If doing so, be sure to have a hotkey or clickable button to release the mouse. :) (Alt+Tab will generally do the job of course, but not everyone will know this, and they may have some reason for not wanting to use Alt+Tab specifically due to what else it does besides releasing the mouse from Lix's control. If it even does achieve that for Lix.)
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Simon on September 02, 2016, 12:10:46 PM
Simple 21 through Simple 28 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99IC9DSYEE0)

Mouse leaves window:
1. Update Lix. (http://www.lixgame.com/dow/lix-d-port.zip)
2. In the options menu, on the controls tab, uncheck "fast movement untraps mouse".

Platformer too precise on Charge of the Lix Brigade: Yes, the platformer assignment is precise. You must assign platformer on the slope, or it runs out of bricks. I suggest instead:

(http://www.lixgame.com/etc/chargeofthelix.png)

-- Simon
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Flopsy on September 15, 2016, 01:22:12 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAJ_cQEPxOM

New video for this playthrough: Simple 29-38
Reuploaded finally after a licensing issue blocked this video in Germany :XD:
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Simon on September 15, 2016, 08:43:59 PM
This video plays perfectly in Germany. Thanks, that's excellent support to reupload immediately without the offending music.

Crowd doesn't follow builder after blocker turns builder (http://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=2785.0): I know this, and the behavior is unexpected. I haven't made up my mind whether it's good or bad, or what to do about it. ccx: I moved the discussion into the issue thread (http://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=2785.0).

(http://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=2785.0;attach=5972;image)

We will change levels:
LionLixWardrobe: 12/24 -> 12/30, that's not so tight.
OneWayRoad: 60/60 -> 30/30, there shouldn't be any more spawns after you dig.

-- Simon
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Flopsy on September 28, 2016, 10:44:31 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qudPQ4_s_ns

Simple 39-40 & Quirky 1-8 video is now live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoSfgImcDvA

Quirky 9-14 is also live
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Simon on October 11, 2016, 07:57:45 PM
Quirky 15-20 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE5Nvq1nOBU)

Proxima, Nepster, and I are discussing Another Lix in the Wall. Flopsy's solution is too finnicky. Unclear whether we should change the level (considering platformers 1->0, considering shortening the level outside of the pillars) or whether Flopsy should have recognized the finnickiness and try another idea.

At 28:35, the video shows a bug that I haven't seen before, Framestepping moves into obsolete physics cache (https://github.com/SimonN/LixD/issues/159), #159.

-- Simon
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Flopsy on January 09, 2017, 09:42:40 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9mapME6m3g

Sorry it's been a while, Quirky 21-27 is now live :)
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Simon on January 17, 2017, 05:38:41 AM
Thanks!

At your game resolution, default-height levels show only 85 % of vertical height, potentially hiding important ledges.

I don't yet know what to do. The zoom is 2 (every physics pixel generates a 2x2 block on the screen). Zoom 1 is too small, default-sized levels would fill only 30 % of the area. I haven't tested yet whether non-integer zoom looks good at all, I believe it won't look any good. I'd rather not make the levels smaller, a good solution shouldn't depend on level size.

-- Simon
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Flopsy on December 06, 2017, 07:08:25 PM
Sorry it's been a very long time but I finally uploaded my next video in the LP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UodFM0laF2w

The videos will be shorter going forward but I'm hoping to do Lix more regularly from now on.
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Forestidia86 on December 16, 2017, 03:49:43 PM
Flopsy's next Lix video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1fla_tLvxs) (Quirky 29+30 as of v. 0.9.4), which contains the attempts to "Snowball Battle". The level haunted me as well for quite a while. It's rough in its own way.
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Proxima on December 16, 2017, 05:40:38 PM
I am strongly considering re-ranking this level, but I'm waiting until Flopsy has played a little bit further before making a decision on which level to move down in its place.
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Flopsy on December 18, 2017, 04:32:26 AM
Just as an update, I've now played as far as Cunning 13.

Lix videos will come out every Friday at 2pm GMT until further notice, it saves me announcing each video in a separate post so just check back my channel each Friday :)
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Forestidia86 on December 29, 2017, 05:48:21 PM
Flopsy has finished the Quirky rank with today's video.
Videos not considered in the first post:
Quirky 31-34 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrMZRibaBLo)
Quirky 35-40 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok2Q2f8QMDI)
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: mobius on December 29, 2017, 10:21:15 PM
was that solution to Path To Mahiman intended? IMO: it completely trivializes the level; the idea of the level is to go around the maze. Maybe it was tedious before with the builder-only version but with walkers and jumpers I thought it was not annoying at all.

Quirky 35-40 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok2Q2f8QMDI)
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Forestidia86 on December 29, 2017, 10:32:59 PM
was that solution to Path To Mahiman intended? IMO: it completely trivializes the level; the idea of the level is to go around the maze. Maybe it was tedious before with the builder-only version but with walkers and jumpers I thought it was not annoying at all.

Quirky 35-40 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok2Q2f8QMDI)

I suppose not; from the Lix IRC:

[19:21:42]    <SimonN> geoo: backroute in Path to Mahiman: https://youtu.be/ok2Q2f8QMDI?t=70
[...]
[21:45:10]    <geoo> hmm, the Path to Mahiman in my version also has that backroute. I wonder if something got changed at some point, or if it was simply never found
[21:45:56]    <geoo> I have the hunch that your commit from Oct 9 did that: "Mahiman rm indirect jump"
[21:47:25]    <geoo> yup, backroute wasn't there before that commit

It was changed for 0.9.2 since it had a precision shortcut (already with same skill set):

Old Backroute (https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=3426.msg66554#msg66554):

Fix (https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=3426.msg66558#msg66558) that seems to introduce new backroute:

But the new backroute looks easily fixable.
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Flopsy on December 30, 2017, 04:49:35 AM
I knew it was a backroute when I found it because I thought there was no way it was that easy in MazuLems.

So all Quirky rank is uploaded now.
I'm currently recorded up to Cunning 13, I do skip 3 levels along the way up to there because I couldn't solve them but which 3 I skipped I will leave a mystery for now.

Need to record more Lix because I think there are only 4 videos left now.
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Forestidia86 on January 13, 2018, 03:28:43 AM
Flopsy has uploaded two further videos:

Cunning 1+2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5L_Oqtq3m4)
Cunning 3-5 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6b6mNC4aGE)
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Flopsy on January 13, 2018, 06:36:11 AM
There should be a new video every Friday on my channel until further notice :)
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Forestidia86 on January 27, 2018, 02:43:13 PM
I don't want to interfere with Flopsy and this will be probably my last reminder but the videos not considered in the first post until now are:

Cunning 6-10 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb2rKJxIAow)
Cunning 11-13 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxc4u9Mjwmw)
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Flopsy on January 28, 2018, 01:16:09 PM
I don't want to interfere with Flopsy and this will be probably my last reminder but the videos not considered in the first post until now are:

Cunning 6-10 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb2rKJxIAow)
Cunning 11-13 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxc4u9Mjwmw)

Don't worry about it, remind away :)!
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Forestidia86 on February 09, 2018, 05:33:41 PM
Videos not considered in the first post until now are:
Cunning 14 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAtOjGNzu18)
Cunning 15-17 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-QthNK9Q24)

Yeah, "A Soulful Bounding Leap" is a tricky level, for me the hardest of the rank.
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Forestidia86 on February 23, 2018, 06:40:25 PM
Videos not considered in the first post until now are:

Cunning 18-22 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTiDQZQiOug)
Cunning 23-25 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u30qlNsMidU)

Flopsy solved "Watch Ye Step" blazingly fast. I had so much trouble with that level.
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Forestidia86 on March 09, 2018, 09:19:36 PM
Videos not considered in the first post until now are:

Cunning 26-28 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tkg-8qv02PU)
Cunning 29-30 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oudmaeWE-Bw)

I remember "Little Miner Puzzle (Part 3)" as having been very finicky at one point.
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Forestidia86 on April 01, 2018, 01:33:02 PM
Videos not considered in the first post until now are:

Cunning 31-34 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGjpph1-_qc)
Cunning 35+36 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZSUrlA9mP8)
Cunning 37+38 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yb1_PsDBYU)

Good job by Flopsy on solving Pillars of Lixdom that fast. As Good As Dead depends on knowing the main trick, which I didn't as I played it first.
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Proxima on April 20, 2018, 03:08:18 PM
Tribute to Benny Hill (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN5yH2yZpiE)

Flopsy and Wafflem both solved the level this way, merging the crowd in the area with the hatch, rather than using the slope in the middle area to help. This makes the level much more tedious than it needs to be, even with fast forward. Should we prevent this?
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Nessy on April 20, 2018, 03:17:29 PM
Tribute to Benny Hill (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN5yH2yZpiE)

Flopsy and Wafflem both solved the level this way, merging the crowd in the area with the hatch, rather than using the slope in the middle area to help. This makes the level much more tedious than it needs to be, even with fast forward. Should we prevent this?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Proxima on April 20, 2018, 03:25:54 PM
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Forestidia86 on April 20, 2018, 03:27:37 PM
The lemforum replay (https://github.com/SimonN/lemforum-replays/blob/master/lemforum/Daunting/tributetobennyhill-geoo-2017-06-21-134813.txt) does it like Flopsy and others (including me).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Forestidia86 on April 27, 2018, 04:08:34 PM
Videos not considered in the first post until now are:

Cunning 39+40 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEIo7XBjV8M)
Daunting 1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69nEfSixdz4)
Daunting 2+3 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN5yH2yZpiE)
Daunting 4+5 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEflRXHJSNA)
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Flopsy on April 30, 2018, 07:22:26 PM
After the video this Friday, I will be putting my Lix videos on hold temporarily so I can upload an LP of the LOTY nxp which I will run on Tuesdays and Fridays until it is complete.

After I finish that LP, the Lix schedule will resume as normal :)
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Forestidia86 on May 10, 2018, 11:53:21 AM
Video not considered in the first post until now is:

Daunting 6 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIV5qGl27ss)
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Proxima on June 08, 2018, 11:51:19 PM
Daunting 7-9 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trws5bcXnKQ), includes backroute on "Backslash".
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: geoo on June 09, 2018, 07:55:02 PM
Flopsy, a little hint that might make Merge Sort more enjoyable for you:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Nessy: I saw you commented on YouTube, did you play through the community pack? How did you feel about this level?

As for Backslash, the solution is different from intended, but it's interesting in its own right so I don't even mind so much.
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Nessy on June 10, 2018, 02:14:02 AM
Nessy: I saw you commented on YouTube, did you play through the community pack? How did you feel about this level?

Yes, every once in a while I would play through some levels in the community pack. I completed the first three ranks and about half of Daunting and some Vicious levels. I even started my own thread where I posted some replays about certain levels (https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=3651) I wanted feedback on solution-wise.

About "Merge Sort" (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Simon on June 10, 2018, 01:19:12 PM
I agree with Nessy.

Another idea for Merge Sort (click to show/hide)

-- Simon
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: geoo on June 19, 2018, 03:19:00 PM
That's an interesting change, I quite like the idea of this.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Simon on June 19, 2018, 04:41:30 PM
Attached is the new Merge Sort. I've tried to make this accepted change more beautiful.

Image of Merge Sort (click to show/hide)

-- Simon
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: geoo on June 19, 2018, 05:05:51 PM
After trying the level maybe the thicker bars aren't necessary, my concern from the previous post is not really an issue.

Pros and cons:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

What do people think?
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Simon on June 19, 2018, 05:44:10 PM
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

-- Simon
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Flopsy on July 08, 2018, 08:57:16 PM
Ok, sorry for my long hiatus from my LP, I'm now ready to return to it following solving a lot of levels after revisiting them. I have now solved Merge Sort (in its original form I attempted on video) and Snowball Battle! I have solved other levels also which stumped me which I will demonstrate in my next video

I do admit that I didn't spend enough time on merge sort and it really was not as bad as I expected. I say keep the original layout to contribute to the original discussion but if you have changed it then don't worry.

I feel like I have improved at Lix during my time playing and attempting levels during my evenings while on holiday.
I feel like the LP might stall soon because of the difficulty of the levels getting intense but I'm more determined than ever to hammer on now.
I'm not going to make any video commitments on regularity of videos anymore so just expect videos sporadically.

I will aim to get another video out by the end of the month at the latest, hopefully much sooner than that though.

Also thanks a lot for the feedback on my LP replays, it makes me happier knowing my videos are contributing to the upkeep of the already high-quality Lemforum pack.
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Forestidia86 on July 13, 2018, 07:30:19 PM
Flopsy made another video:

Daunting 10-11 (before v.0.9.12) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htm7JeJf5Sc)

Really clean and nice solution to "Go West!".
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Simon on September 21, 2018, 08:24:48 PM
Round Trip (https://youtu.be/Q0BCnHko1NA)

Glad to see Flopsy return to the Lix pack! It's been a while and your videos have always helped me judge the difficulty curve. (Also happy to see the level title in the video title!)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

-- Simon
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Proxima on October 01, 2018, 10:18:00 PM
More video links:

Daunting 12-14 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AaE32eaUMs)
Daunting 15 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqQynst8q6E)
Daunting 16-17 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVC5FNbLa8I) (does not solve Derailed Level)
Daunting 18-19 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9o9bN8gg3I)
Daunting 20-22 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpekjPkzN24)

Simon already started a discussion thread on "Slipping Again". It's a while since I watched 12-15, don't remember what solutions Flopsy found. All other solutions are intended.
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Flopsy on September 15, 2020, 12:09:23 AM
It's been a while since I have uploaded some videos for this pack, one went up on my channel a week ago now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4MLbf_2gu4
(this video was actually recorded over a year ago and I never got round to uploading until recently)

I've tried recording some more Lix videos recently but I am having great difficulties with recording Lix with OBS without the frame rate tanking randomly.
I may have to continue the LP in Post Commentary format, because it is too risky to do a live video on Lix at the moment, is there a chance that Lix has options to lower the performance in any way, this might be a favourable option for me recording this because even when I record post commentary videos, the videos randomly mess up.
I have recorded 3 Lix videos recently and only ONE ended up not being messed up by OBS when it was finalised.
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Simon on September 15, 2020, 08:56:05 PM
No options for Lix that affect performance. >_>;;

I don't easily see how to improve, either. Does the recording framerate tank only during large maps?

General loose ideas: Choose different encoder (software vs. hardware encoding), update video drivers, updating DirectX (but probably DirectX just ships inside Windows nowadays?) Or I can add newer Allegro libraries (that will then call into DirectX), even though Allegro library versions likely won't matter much.

-- Simon
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Flopsy on September 15, 2020, 09:15:00 PM
It doesn't tend to matter what level it is I've found. The whole video either ends up being poor quality with screen freezes and screen jumps throughout, it stays on a still image for 5 seconds before catching up then freezing again or it is perfectly fine.

I'll try what you suggested next time I try to record.
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Forestidia86 on September 17, 2020, 04:45:05 PM
What version no. of Lix are you using?
Maybe providing a 32-bit build can help, although this is only a wild guess, but the older videos still seem to be on the 32-bit version.
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Simon on September 17, 2020, 05:44:52 PM
Attached is a Lix 0.9.33 Windows 32-bit executable. Flopsy, put this where your normal Lix executable sits, and run it instead of the normal lix.exe (that is 64-bit). Does it record any better?

If it complains about missing libraries, tell me, I'll get 32-bit Allegro libs for you, then.

-- Simon
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Forestidia86 on September 17, 2020, 05:56:32 PM
The 32bit dlls can be found in this archve (http://www.lixgame.com/dow/lix-dlls-libs-win32.zip) in the bin folder.
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Flopsy on September 19, 2020, 02:40:35 PM
Thanks Simon and Forestidia :)

My initial tests of recording suggest this build might suit recording Lix a lot better.

I might only be doing post commentary going forward anyway because the levels are getting too hard to be recorded live now, the last 5 levels I have done have resulted in no solves until I solved them off camera. I'll try and record the post commentaries quite soon after I solve them anyway so I can remember what I tried before solving the levels.
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Simon on September 19, 2020, 02:58:30 PM
Thanks for the feedback! I should start building and offering the 32-bit Windows version again.

Still, I wonder whether the slowness really came from the architecture of the executable. I know that the D garbage collection behaves differently, but the impact shouldn't be that big... Or the Allegro libraries' versions differ between the 64-bit and 32-bit build. I should update Allegro libraries anyway in the Windwos builds that I ship. Until then, I'm happy that we found a solution.

-- Simon
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Flopsy on September 21, 2020, 11:40:51 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N4Fz_MSfeQ

Part 42 - Daunting 24-26 is out :)

Another older video but the next video will definitely be a more recent video.
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Simon on September 23, 2020, 05:37:01 AM
Thanks. Especially helpful to see what doesn't solve in the fixed 15-20 mins.

Derailed Level: Wibble had similar trouble with Derailed Level; it sits next to Railroad Plot merely because of theme, not of difficulty. Derailed by itself candidate for ranking harder.

Crimson Room: Also eligible for ranking harder; even though not-solving after 5 minutes is only weak evidence for ranking higher.

-- Simon
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Flopsy on September 24, 2020, 12:18:29 AM
I have actually solved all the levels which I had trouble with in recent videos, I do a replay round up video in the next video I believe.

I also went back to attempt the levels which had been added to the pack recently, I did have live attempts at them but that was the video that got messed up sadly so I just ended up showing the solved replays instead. They didn't take long to solve anyway.

I don't think Crimson Room is as hard as I'm making out to be in the Part 42 video, I solved it rather quickly when I revisited it. It was Repeating Patterns which took much longer!
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Proxima on September 24, 2020, 01:18:51 AM
The Crimson Room was previously ranked higher and moved down. I think it's in a good place now.
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Wibble on September 25, 2020, 04:00:12 PM
Thanks. Especially helpful to see what doesn't solve in the fixed 15-20 mins.

Derailed Level: Wibble had similar trouble with Derailed Level; it sits next to Railroad Plot merely because of theme, not of difficulty. Derailed by itself candidate for ranking harder.

Crimson Room: Also eligible for ranking harder; even though not-solving after 5 minutes is only weak evidence for ranking higher.

-- Simon

Derailed Level did take a while, though most of it was me trying to force a route that just didn't work. I think Daunting is the right difficulty level for it though (maybe later in daunting if it is derailed [see what I did there] from Railroad plot).

Crimson room just has a lot of options so is fine to solve, yet tough to solve quickly.
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Simon on September 25, 2020, 08:46:57 PM
All right, I'm happy to leave all these where they are, then, especially when Repeating Patterns was the hardest for Flopsy and the easiest for me among Crimson and Derailed.

If Derailed is not that much harder, we can also leave it next to Railroad Plot for theme.

-- Simon
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Flopsy on October 07, 2020, 11:26:56 PM
I uploaded another video for this recently, it's a replay round up video again where I go through the levels I failed to solve and played the newer additions in the earlier ranks of the pack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cYIkSUUAPk
Title: Re: Flopsy plays Lix's lemforum pack
Post by: Simon on October 08, 2020, 08:36:49 PM
Thanks!

Platformers don't turn on hitting terrain, yes, I believe this is a misdesign. Over 10 years ago, I copied this behavior from L2 because I assumed L2 to be the gold standard.

On a fresh design, I would have the platformer turn. It's inconsistent w.r.t. the builder, and (platformer and builder) are much more closely related than (miner and digger, where the digger won't turn on steel but the miner does).



Even with the turn-on-hit builder, a builder bridge is easy to make traversable in both ways. A two-way-walkable platformer bridge is much harder with a turn-on-hit platformer, unless the two shoresides are exactly the same height. The non-turning platformer gives us more leeway. But I doubt this counterargument wins against the inconsistency argument.

At least we can fix some backroutes by giving platformers instead of giving builders.

-- Simon