Another import of an old challenge to NeoLemmix This one asks for the minimum number of total skills to complete each level; which skills doesn't matter, nor does how they are distributed, but only the total number. As usual with challenges that don't specify otherwise, the aim is simply to pass the level, and you are limited to the actual skillset and time limit (if any).


Lemmings Redux

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|Rating | 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 Total |
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|Gentle | 1  1  3 11  3  2  2  4  2  1  5  2  2  4  5  7  2  3  5  3  9  5  9  4  7  8  3 22  4  2  6 12  169  |
|Quirky | 5  3 10  3  8  3  7  7  6 12  5  6  3 10  5 10  7 10  3  3  5 15  7 10  5  5  7  4  9  8 12 15  228  |
|Zany   | 5 10  9  9  5  4  1  6  3  1  5  7          11 11 11  5  5 12  8  9  3           4     3  8          |
|Manic  | 5  5 11                          3  7       12                 6  9  5                      13       |
|Lunatic| 4 13        7  8 12 10                      16             17                   16       12          |
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"Purge replays" would be similar to "Mass Replay Check", but it would delete all replays that don't pass, and so it won't need to generate a text document summary. (It should also warn the player before starting work, just in case they click on it by accident.)

It's possible to achieve the same result by running Mass Replay Check and deleting replays manually, but that's more laborious and this would automate the process.

The main use case is when importing a pack and its associated replays from an older version of NL -- usually I have no use for replays that no longer work, since I will have to re-solve the levels anyway. Also, if I was in the middle of playing a pack, then I am hoping to finish it eventually and post replays for the pack author when I do, and then it's just a courtesy to them to exclude replays that don't work any more. (The only time I can think of that I might want to keep defunct replays is when it's a pack I'm designing, since I may want to know how people have solved my levels, and I might not have gotten round to looking at all replays and making appropriate changes by the time a new version of NL is released. Needless to say, I play many more packs than I design.)

On a fresh install of the RC, after the following actions:
* Delete the levels that come packaged with the RC
* Copy Lemmings Redux into the levels folder
* Open NeoLemmix (Gentle 1 is selected)
* Go to the level preview screen
* Press up (selects Quirky 1)
* Press down

NeoLemmix crashed with the error message shown.

Not sure if there's a bug here or if I've just done something stupid.

I am attempting to split the "Extra Levels" pack into separate packs for 2P, Genesis, and so on. I have moved the level subfolders from Extra into the main levels folder, gone into each pack's levels.nxmi, and added "BASE" at the start to show that it's (now) a separate pack. In case it makes a difference, I've done this on a brand-new installation of 12.9 with no other levels other than Redux installed.

To help reproduce the bug, I've attached a zip with the exact current state of my levels folder.

Expected: Each pack starts the music rotation with track 1 (Cancan).
Observed: NL treats all the packs as if they were a single pack, so 2P ends with track 11, and the next pack starts with track 12.

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On a similar note, it was mentioned on discord the other day that it would be desirable if putting a music.nxmi inside a rank folder told NL "use this music rotation for this rank, and start with track 1". An example use-case that came up was WillLem's Amiga Lemmings project, where he would like to have an overall music rotation for the pack, but restart from track 1 with the 2P rank.

This is a follow-up to Nepster's "Updates of Lemmix packs to NeoLemmix" topic. I have downloaded the packs from his topic, run them through namida's NXP extractor, and cleansed the levels in NL 12.7. This means the levels are now playable, but there is still a lot of work to be done.

First, I'll go through each pack and make a levels.nxmi for it (and maybe split some of the packs into ranks, where appropriate). Once this step is done, I'll be ready to share the pack as a work in progress.

Then, we will need to create a solving replay for every level. If there any that are not solvable in current versions of NL, these should either be removed or fixed. I can do some of the work here, but as there are a lot of levels and some of them are very hard, I hope I will get some help from the rest of the community, otherwise the task will never be finished! There may also be some levels that should be removed for other reasons, for instance copies of official levels or levels that have already made their way to new formats elsewhere.

I have already removed the following levels:
* exit's cLemmings: This pack is part of a series, and for some reason, only the first instalment was included in Nepster's compilation. I believe the cLemmings series should be treated as a separate project and not part of this one.
* Gaston Splatt's Farlight: Brought to new formats by namida, here.
* MazuLems: Exists as a separate pack in new formats.
* TMChallenge: Exists as a separate pack in new formats.

If anyone doesn't want their levels included in this project, just let me know and they will be removed, no questions asked.

Suppose you have a level less than single-screen, so there are grey inactive areas around the play area. Now have two lemmings close to the edge, so you need your cursor to overlap A but not B, in order to assign to A. Sometimes the cursor will have to move off the play area for this. If it does, NL will refuse to let the cursor "see" the lemming and assign it the skill, even though it's within normal overlapping distance.

According to WillLem's tutorial, packs can include custom helper graphics in the same way as custom panels and so forth.

This seems like a really bad idea. Sure, allow the user to customise their splat ruler if they don't like the default. But I cannot see any reason why a pack designer should have the power to impose a different splat ruler on the user. These tools are part of the way the player interacts with the levels, not part of the levels, and should remain outside the scope of pack-level customisation.

A minor issue: loose levels (ones in the main levels folder and not any subfolder) are treated as a rank -- the first one gets track 1 in the rotation, the second gets track 2, and so forth. This is okay but personally I'd prefer it if loose levels got a randomly chosen track.

Much more importantly, I would like to be able to give levels an ordered selection of tracks, so for instance "MUSIC smstitle; orig_01" would play smstitle if the user has that track in their music folder, and orig_01 otherwise.

Use cases for this: firstly, I'd like to be able to refer to tracks from other packs, while also having a fallback for users who don't have a particular pack installed. WillLem has said he's happy for other users to use his Lemminas music, but at the moment, if I set a level to a Lemminas track and a user doesn't have it, it will fall back to the default rotation, which isn't what I want.

Secondly, when I release GemLems and its music pack, I'd like my levels to have a fallback option for users who choose not to install the GemLems music. I know this has been a touchy subject in the past, but the fact remains: music packs take up so much disc space and download time that some users won't bother with them at all, or will be selective about which ones they install.