I can't even figure out what you're trying to say here. What does PNG have to do with anything else here? What do you mean by "a standard"?

On a side note - if anyone has added objects of the new types to their styles, let me know so I can point those styles out in the first post for people looking for them. So far, aside from the placeholder-graphics ones in namida_systemtest, the only one I'm aware of is a portal I added to namida_lab.

^ You probably saw on Discord, but it's now confirmed that the fullscreen bug was related to Delphi 11 (commit 6ee3171 fixes it - there's another commit a couple later that says it fixes it, but that was actually junk files that I didn't need to commit; 6ee3171 is the actual fix) while the bug with the game refusing to load (the one Armani was having in particular) was GR32v3; updating your copy of GR32 to commit dbd2777 or later (this is a commit in GR32's repo, not in NL's one) will fix that.

Also,

1) Ensure that bass.dll is present in {source code directory}\bin\ (you can find this in any NL/SLX installation folder)

MakeSymLinks should take care of that too.

However, I did notice when setting up the NL repo on my new PC - if the "bin" folder does not yet exist the first time you run MakeSymLinks, you need to run it twice. Alternatively, make the "bin" folder manually (doesn't need anything put in it, it just needs to exist) and then run it. Didn't look into why, probably just poor writing of the BAT file. Unless you've fixed this yourself (or removed the reliance on it), it'll likely be the same for SLX.

Yeah, NL could be making save states far more often. I was worried about the performance impact of doing them regularly when I implemented them. I never specifically tested the "is making more of them alright" angle; only the "does it give good enough results for backstepping".

Compression would make them less performant, which is a concern if they're being taken regularly. On the flipside though, regular save states - unless they're getting overwritten / discarded very frequently too (which may not be a bad idea) - will take up more memory. How well they'll compress is a concern too - it's likely only the physics maps and the visual terrain map that are actually worth compressing. The physics maps at least should compress very well. I don't know how necessary compression really is in NL's (or forks thereof) case, but if you did want to go down that road, it may also be worth looking into whether compression can be handled in a seperate thread.

The other thing I'd raise is that a very good idea is for the game's active state to also be a "saved state". NeoLemmix doesn't use such an approach because rewinding (and in turn, save states) were a later addition there; but in the case of Loap, which was built with this facility in mind from day one, the game's current state that gets updated by the engine each iteration, etc, is also an instance of the SavedState class (or whatever I named it). This helps to ensure that everything that needs to be part of the state, is part of it.

Quote from: The64Watcher on July 20, 2024, 12:35:56 PM

i agree, i recently closed down production on the game because i had no way of getting the ground and skills to work properly, along with my remake of love a lemming, and chronicles+ is now gone due to noone jumping into it.

It can be difficult to get support for a project on these Forums, but if you’re into it and believe in it then don’t give up. People might get more into it if it’s further along in its development.

Good luck!

This too. NeoLemmix didn't get much attention (outside of Lemmings Plus III, which was shipped as a standalone EXE containing the NeoLemmix engine and the pack's data, so the attention there was more on the pack itself than NL) for a very long time after it was first released.

Yeah, I should be very clear that I have zero intention of forbidding such discussions, regardless of how I personally feel about either the subject itself or the repeated discussions on it. If no one wants to engage, they're always free to not respond or even read it, after all.

The main reason for including Lemmings Redux rather than the (mostly) unmodified official packs is that a lot of the official levels were either bad levels in the first place (builderfests like Hunt The Nessy), or just don't work as well under NeoLemmix (for example, any level that revolves around bomber timing or other execution difficulty factors, don't hold up so well when bombers are instant and gameplay can be framestepped / rewinded). It's also an opportunity to showcase some of the less-known official levels that are really good, such as many from the Genesis version of the game. Add in the other minor improvements like fixes to particularly bad backroutes and the greatly improved ordering of levels, as well as that Redux applies many of the modern fanmade content standards (like no unnecessary time limits), and yeah, just didn't make sense to go with the direct conversions instead of Redux.

...I don't think many people are going to have the time to train a pet to play Lemmings, nor a pet that would actually be capable.

I think the most likely candidates for pet species that might have a shot at this - but even then, you'd be looking at years if not decades of training them - would be African Grey or Eclectus parrots, or rats (though rats' lifespans might be a bit too short to train them; African Greys and Eclectuses can make it well beyond 30 years so lifespan isn't such an obstacle there).