this error occurred to me again suddenly and unexpectedly;

https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=3332.msg64730#msg64730

It happens when I try to start the program by itself or when play testing. I can't seem to start it at all atm. But unlike explained in that post; it fails to start at all. I can't run NL. Also the attached message appears a little later.
Also: NL keeps running in the backround using up a ton of CPU.

What's very weird is that it was working perfectly fine yesterday I can't recall changing anything intentionally that would cause this. I checked and I haven't moved or altered the bass.dll or the save folder. My save folder is empty however; is this normal? What's supposed to be in there?

I haven't got time atm but I will try the standard procedures before declaring all hope lost.

this has come in very handy for me when making levelpacks so I'll share it:

it's a BAT file (only works on Windows) which makes a list of all files of a certain filetype in a folder. To make it count different filetpyes; rightclick, edit, then in the notepad editor change instances of "NXLV" to whatever filetype you need.

I realize that NL already supports a pre-level message but this displays on a separate screen before the level begins. Since now it seems there is much more room on the level preview screen (since the orientation of it has been changed a little) there is room there for these messages AND OR other/more messages. This would be more like how Cheapo was (displaying short messages on the same screen as the title and stats). Honestly I'd prefer this over the current; changing screens to see a message. But I'm not suggesting they be removed altogether.

a very low priority bug;

When rotating some pieces in the editor; they move very gradually to the left. I noticed this with the triangular and pillar end pieces from original Pillar set. But the wooden planks don't seem to do this.

Because the new format allows for super-easy graphic set alteration and I often seem to run into issues where when making levels I need a piece that doesn't exist and I create it: Here is a topic where I may occasionally pop in to add new tiles to existing sets. If it's an original set I'll just post; if it's a set by somebody else I'll ask first.

#1: a diagonal thin bar for the original hellfire set. Put this in Neolemmix/styles/orig_fire/terrain

this was removed because it was faulty; please see later post with a corrected version.

Note: this is not a request of any kind. This is only to state my opinions for the record.

So many people have said that runners are not that useful: here is a little topic to explain simply why I wholly disagree:

Most notable useses for the runner (from experience in Lix, minor experience in L2):

1) Separate lemmings/a worker from crowd. Yes this can be achieved many other ways. So what? More ways to do that (a very important thing in the game) the better.

2) Does other things in conjunction with other skills. This, which is sort of unique to this skill I find quite a cool feature of the game. It adds another level of complexity which can lead to lots of other interesting things. Which Lix and L2 demonstrates to some degree. I think there is even more potential there.

the most important one
3) Makes timing and precision a LOT nicer/easier to achieve. If this was the only use runners had I would still like this skill; this is a VERY useful feature!!! See many lix versions of Lemmix levels with runners in them; they are made so much more fun and nice to pull off while in Lemmix they could've been a major pain; even with all the user-friendly features. And this leads to a tangential point:

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I like this kind of feature/user friendliness much better than the actual "user friendly features" (clear physics mode etc). While I like these user friendly features; they take you out of the emersion of the game and feel like cheating*. They feel like using outside tools to play and can be cumbersome. My favorite levels are ones that don't feeling like I need any outside help like this at all.
The kind of help runners offer in this vein is different:

to put it another way: A poor level can be made barable or trivial with user friendly features. But a similarly poor level could be made more interesting or elegant with a feature like runners.

*I've read other people saying this as well.

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-Another point; I think there is more potential here; with timing tricks that have not been imagined yet. Also in Lix; tricks in regards to jumping and etc that have not been utilized yet.

So for the record; I would be very sad if runner skill was removed from Lix and if it was ever on the table for addition to NeoLemmix I'd be up for it.

Another possible suggestion: I'd have to see this in action to actuall decide if it's a good idea or not. But what about runners causing the lemming to do everything fast; not only walking. That is; they bash, build etc, faster too. This would certainty make the skill have more impact, whether good or bad.

Lemmings Revolution barely demonstrates this idea with "speed-up" pads. Lemmings entering those do everything quickly for a brief time. They are not used well in that game but I could've seen a lot of potential there.

when you press F3 objects display/don't display. You cannot select them by clicking then; but you CAN select them by holding down and drawing to select multiple objects. This seems like a bug; in any case I consider this a bug: when I use the F3 option I DON'T want any objects being selected.

now I see that in fact if you press F2 and turn off terrain you can now NOT select anything, even objects if they are being displayed. Again, this only applies to holding down, not clicking singly.