Hi,

see issue 57 on github: Builder -> miner at wall depends on parity.

I've proposed a solution there. Comments?

The code for that proposal isn't pushed to github yet. I'll make a test release later this week, so you get to try this. Then you can destroy the idea yet again.

-- Simon

Edit: This post has a confusing description. I have a better test case in answer #2.

NL 1.43-D on Nepsterlems 1.1.

The attached Replays are for Nepsterlems, 3rd rank, level 4, The Block-Store. *-06-54.lrb is a manual save of a solution, and *-07-00.lrb is an automatic save. The manual replay (06-54) plays back the solution as I want it.

I use the option that supresses skill selections.

Expected: The autosaved replay plays back the same solution.

Observed: The autosaved replay (07-00) seems to be empty. No red R, no replayed assignments in that one. See next post.

-- Simon

See also: 2021 NL thread: Moss-on-steel decoration for L1 conversions

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Hi folks,

Here's a violent scene from Steel Works.



The implosion clears the destructible moss.

Lix recognizes earth tiles and steel tiles. Whatever tile gets to draw the topmost pixel determines whether a pixel is steel or earth. Neolemmix calls this behavior "regular autosteel".



The leftmost image displays two purple tiles. The top part is steel, the bottom part is destructible earth.

The purple tiles are meant as steel decoration. The top tile should be laid over a steel block, as we see in the rightmost image. That produces a cleanly-shaven steel block on explosion. To get this behavior in Lix, it's necessary to make the top purple tile steel.

The purple steel tile should not decorate earth, or appear out in the open like on the leftmost image. These uses lead to the irritating middle image.

Opinions please!

I will post my own opinion later, along with design questions.

-- Simon

Good topic titles

Topic titles are extremely important. Cut all fluff! Or replace it with meaningful information. Here are some worrisome topic titles, along with suggestions for improvement.

The X topic
X

My X topic
X
username tries X

X doesn't work
X fails to Y

X on my computer
X on Windows 10

The NEW X!
X
X version 2.3.45
X revamped for 2016
X is now hosted by Y

Observe how it's always correct to start the topic title with the most important word.

That's how we arrive at this suggestion:

[BUG] [PLAYER] X does Y, expected Z
X does Y, expected Z [bug] [player]

But I don't feel as strongly about changes in such a standard.

Don't name stuff "new"

The example The NEW X! is particularly bad, because it outdates quicker than you think. Your postings are visible for the years to come. When has it been new? If you feel it's so important that it's new, add a date. The year alone is enough!

Files should never have "new" in their name.  When you have mystuff.xyz and you begin producing backup/mystuff-new-backup-2.xyz -- immediately download git. Use dates or version control.

Backing up is to ensure access to a recent version, protecting against unwanted data loss.
Version control is to ensure access to an old version, protecting against wanted changes.

-- Simon

Hi,

we have separated the IRC channels #lix and #neolemmix. There is interesting discussion about both games, and some of us already sit in both channels. namida is happy with this separation, which is very important to me.

Current solution:

We're relaying this subset of all boards to #lix. We're relaying posts as notifications, not as messages.

Old first post:

Mindless's bot __ is relaying Lemmingsforums posts as follows: The Lix board is relayed to #lix, and everything else is relayed to #neolemmix.

Proxima wasn't happy about this change, because he relies on #lix for seeing new LF posts. On the other hand, I like the reduced bloat in the #lix channel logs, and Ramond is annoyed by any bot activity. What's your stance?

Furthermore, __ is now sending notifications, not messages. Messages are what people send when they type text and send it. IRC clients treat messages as more important than notifications. Notifications are about as important as joins/leaves of other users. Notifications aren't logged in the Nordicbots logs -- very good.

Alternatives for automatic notification about the Lix-unrelated content:

• Use the forum's news feed (RSS, Atom).
• Sit in both IRC channels, #lix and #neolemmix.
• Ask Mindless to go back to relaying all posts to #lix, as notifications.
• Ask Mindless to relay the Lix board, and all engine-independent boards, as notifications.

The forum's news feed needs a standalone program. [A modern browser is enough. >_>] If you don't use feeds for any other website, it's strange to install an extra tool to run in the background.

Since we have many posts per day, I've configured my feed reader to download the recent 60 posts every 20 minutes. You can configure the time in the program, and the number of posts in the feed URL:
http://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?type=rss;action=.xml;limit=60

-- Simon

BitBucket: https://bitbucket.org/namida42/neolemmixplayer/issues/40/left-click-advances-frame-before-updating

Status: This appears to be two different things being reported together:

1. Left-click cancels replay *and* advances a frame. This is very unlikely to be changed; as there are keys for both functions alone (C to cancel replay without frame advance; N to advance frame without replay cancel; assuming the user hasn't re-customized them).

2. When using said left-click, a skill assignment in the replay is prioritized over one the user tried to assign with the given left-click. This is more likely to be changed.

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Steps to reproduce:

• Have assignment to lemming Y coming up in the replay that are assigned at the beginning of update n+1.
• Be in update n.
• Hover over a lemming X different from Y.
• Click to assign to X.

Computer does:

• Physics advance from n to n+1.
• Queued assignment to Y is replayed.
• Queued actions in n+2, n+3, ..., are deleted from the replay.
• No assignment to X.

Expected instead:

• Queued actions in n+1, n+2, ..., are deleted from the replay.
• Physics advance from n to n+1.
• Assignment to X takes place.
• No assignment to Y.

Reason: When I click a lemming, it should receive an assignment. This should not depend on whether there's an assignment queued for the very next update. During frame n, I don't see yet whether anything is queued for n+1.

-- Simon

Status: Added a copy of the player to the ZIP.

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The editor has not been updated. The latest version remains V1.40n, which can be downloaded here:
http://www.neolemmix.com/old/neolemmixeditor.zip (For new users)
http://www.neolemmix.com/old/NeoLemmixEditor.exe (For existing users with older versions)

Contents of the new-user-package:
NeoLemmixEditor.exe  styles
NeoLemmixEditor.ini  ReadMe.txt

I recommend to add the NL player to this new-user bundle.

Reasoning: People get stuck on how to test levels. Improving the error message is good. Designing the error out of existence is better.

-- Simon

How to format your forum messages like a pro!

Links

• You can dump the address in the text, without any tag around it, and hope the forum software recognizes it.
  http://www.example.com → http://www.example.com
  
  
• Alternatively, put [url] around the address, to guarantee linkification:
  [url]http://www.example.com[/url] → http://www.example.com
  
  
• For very noble formatting, you can rename the link via [url=address]:
  [url=http://www.example.com]Example Website[/url] → Example Website
  

Named spoiler tags

[spoiler]Secret message[/spoiler] becomes:

[spoiler=Custom clickable text]Secret message[/spoiler] becomes:

Copying other people's formatting

You see other people's posts, and wonder how they got the formatting right.

Click "quote" on their post. Their message's source code will appear for you to edit. Study the source code to see how they formatted their text.

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Icho has raged! With spoiler tags, the always-visible name goes into the tag, and the content goes between the tags. With URLs, the always-visible link name goes between the tags, and the URL content goes into the tag.

-- Simon