At this point, the target date for V12.8.0 stable is "sometime in February" - no specific date set yet.

The Release Candidate build for V12.8.0 is now here.


Download V12.8.0-RC1: https://www.neolemmix.com/download.php?id=381

This download does not include any copy of the editor. Please use the stable editor version for now. If levels refuse to open in it, first try running them through Cleanse Levels using V12.8.0 (F8 on title screen of a pack).

This download only includes the Orig and OhNo styles, plus "default", "xmas" and "special". You can use the in-game Style Manager (in the Settings) to download other styles, or you can download styles manually:
- All styles: https://www.neolemmix.com/download.php?id=382
- Any individual style: https://www.neolemmix.com/styles/12.8/XXXXXXXX.zip (replace XXXXXXXX with the style's name, eg: https://www.neolemmix.com/styles/12.8/orig_fire.zip for orig_fire)

As always, it is recommended you install the RC build to a new folder, rather than trying to use it in the same folder as your existing version of NeoLemmix.

If you have a custom hotkey setup you'd like to keep, run the new version once, then copy settings/hotkeys.ini across from your V12.7.X folder. Please note that in this case, you will need to manually add keys (if desired) for the new "Projection Shadow" and "Skill Projection Shadow" features.



No change to existing content is required. However, if you have custom lemming sprites, you may want to update them to reflect the recent changes to the Blocker and Digger sprites. You may also, if you have any custom styles, wish to create high-resolution graphics for them - but this is completely optional.

Please report any bugs you find! This update should not break any existing content (at least that I can think of), so if something does break, assume it's a bug and report it rather than trying to update your content to work around it. (This is, of course, assuming the content in question works fine on V12.7.X - there was a lot of potential breakage from V12.6.X to V12.7.X.)

From V12.8.0 onwards, we'll have a change to the blocker sprite to ensure its direction is more visible.

Namely - the blocker will no longer turn his head a full 180 degrees throughout the animation, but instead will turn it only 90 degrees, between "looking towards the camera" to "looking in the direction the lemming is facing".

This change is in place and confirmed for the default sprites, as well as the low-res Xmas sprite. WillLem feels that this doesn't suit the high-res sprite. I think it's strange to have an odd-one out like this (but only to the extent of "I'll vote against it", not to the extent of "I'll veto it").

To be clear - directionality would still be visible via other means, as the high-res blocker also holds a stop sign (default) / candy cane (xmas) on the side he's facing towards. However, this doesn't so clearly indicate direction inherently (the blocker could just as easily be holding the sign / cane behind himself, for all a new player knows; whereas it's much less logical to think he'd face behind himself but not in front) - it's something players would have to learn, but noticeable enough that once learnt, the player could easily spot it. If this proposal was going to destroy directional visibility altogether, it would have been rejected right away when it was proposed.

As the intent is to drop support for SuperLemmini level importing (as well as all other non-NXLV formats) from V12.10.0 onwards, I will not be updating NeoLemmix to support the new features of SuperLemmini level format that came with SL 0.104.

If you intend to convert your SuperLemmini levels to NeoLemmix, please do so before upgrading them to SL 0.104, otherwise it is not guaranteed that conversion will work. (And as a general reminder once again - get your Lemmix, Lemmini, Lemmins and old-formats NL levels converted now if you're intending to do so, while you still can do so easily - there will be NO support whatsoever provided for this by me anymore, both in the sense of "latest NL won't handle it" and "I won't offer advice" (but the community still can if they want) once V12.10.0 is out. Do it now while upgrading / converting is still officially supported.)

See at around 15:00 in this video from IchoTolot: https://youtu.be/kq4CGHEvSG4?t=900

Haven't looked into it beyond making this topic, so far. No change will occur in V12.8.0 in regards to this; expect a fix in V12.9.0.

See this bug report for Lix: https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=4575.0

I have every reason to believe the same would hold for NL as well, except for that teleporters rather than wrap would be used to set this up. (Additional requirement: No updraft anywhere during the fall, as this resets the distance fallen counter to zero.)

This is of very little use in real world situations (not including teleporter animations, a lemming would have to fall for nearly 716 million frames - at which point it would survive the fall if it lands at any time during the next 716 million or so frames - for this bug to actually occur), but there's also little reason not to fix it as a "just in case" thing.

For obvious reasons, I haven't confirmed this bug actually occurs, but all theoretical considerations suggest it would.

This bug is already fixed for V12.8.0, but I'm posting about it because there's a really interesting fact about this one.

One frame of the climber animation is missing a couple of hair pixels on the left-facing graphic, compared to the right.

What makes this interesting - is that these missing pixels are missing even on vanilla Lemmix (and thus, DOS Lemmings too - I have no reason to believe there'd be a Lemmix/DOS difference in play here) - which thus makes this the new record holder for the longest-surviving DOS Lemmings glitch in NeoLemmix, by a long shot (direct drop was eliminated years ago).

Download removed. Use V12.8.0-RC to test high-res mode.

As this is a very major feature, it's going to need a lot of testing, so here's an experimental build you can use to test it out.

Steps to set up:
1. Download (or make a copy of your existing folder) the current stable version, including the styles
2. Download the attachment, which acts as an "upgrade" from the stable version to this experimental

If you start with a clean slate, you'll be asked on first run if you want to enable high-resolution mode or not. If you copy an existing configuration, high-resolution mode will be disabled by default; enable it in the Config menu.

While most UI elements have high-res graphics provided already, as far as styles go only four objects are provided in high-res - the default pickup skill, and the three default one-way arrows. All others are purely the product of the upscaler at this point in time. Note that there is only a difference in-game; the menus will look the same as they always have (although the level preview image on the preview screen will be generated using high-res graphics).

For now - please don't try to create dedicated high-res graphics for your styles. If you'd like to work on preparing high-res versions of the official styles, discuss this with me - I'm happy for this to happen, but let's make sure it's done right. (You can, however, try experimenting with the upscaling.nxmi file - I'll give more detail on this later.)

One other thing to be aware of - alias.nxmi is no longer in "data" in this build. Instead, put any custom alias data either in styles/default/alias.nxmi, or better yet, styles/(the style the alias is for)/alias.nxmi.

There may be other small tweaks / fixes included in this build that I have not described here.

Please be reminded - This is an experimental build. It should not be treated as anywhere near stable. Any content you are creating should be tested using the stable version of NeoLemmix before releasing it. I do not recommend trying to create high-resolution graphics for your styles at this stage.

If you'd like to help with testing, but your PC isn't powerful enough to run high-resolution mode (note: turning off high-quality minimap REALLY helps, even more so than in low-res mode!), you could try running this experimental build in low-res mode and seeing if there are any new bugs that have popped up there.