Quote from: Lana T. on April 26, 2026, 02:21:01 PMHow many people are using the forum nowadays? It seems less active than before my break. Silken told me that almost everyone is on Discord now, but is everything taking place there? If there's anything I can do to support the forum, please let me know, I don't want it to be replaced...

I see the two as complementary, not as one replacing the other.

Discord is much better suited to quick chats, collab projects / challenges, etc. Whereas the forum is much better suited to larger info-dumps, sharing content, etc. Both are an important part of the community, and I don't see either one going anywhere any time soon.

I've looked everywhere but can't find the original suggestion. I'm pretty sure it was from Lana.

She suggested that Lemmini could have 'Parental' settings which display a 'take a break' message at certain intervals, and remove the blood from trap animations.

I've all but implemented the second of these suggestions. Style authors can provide '_pg' suffixed versions of any sprite in the style. If RetroLemmini finds the PG version, and the user has toggled the 'family friendly sprites' option ON in settings, it loads that one instead.

Initial implementation in RLPlayer commit 08d1c67.

I do need a bit of help with this though.

Firstly, it's difficult to decide which of the trap animations should be given PG variants. The ones that feature blood can be edited to be less gory, but what about the others?

Secondly, the editing work will require an artist's hand. If anyone wants to volunteer to do this, I'd be very grateful for the help. It will basically entail editing the OG (orig/ohno) styles' trap animations to be as un-gory as possible.

Also, how should the feature be worded in the Options menu? I've currently gone with 'Use family-friendly sprites if available', indicating the main aspects of the feature:

1) It's the animations themselves that have been edited
2) The intention is to make them less graphic
3) Some styles may not provide such alternatives (the original styles will all have PG variants included, but custom styles made by Forum users may not)

Any other thoughts/suggestions regarding this?

Since the RetroLemmini Editor has the F12 Playtest feature, I'd say this just about qualifies it as being an integral Editor, albeit one that exists as a separate program from the game itself.

Closing this as resolved ✓.

Quote from: Lana T. on April 26, 2026, 02:21:01 PMIf there's anything I can do to support the forum, please let me know, I don't want it to be replaced...

The 3 best things you can do to support the Forum:

1) Reply to topics/posts, even if it's just to say that you've read it
2) Start/continue ongoing conversations
3) Tell people about it! https://www.lemmingsforums.net

Quote from: Simon on June 11, 2026, 03:52:21 PMIn all strictness, I play background music from random sources without permission. Unsure yet if I want that on Youtube.

I'll probably use archive.org to upload them to not YouTube.

Welcome to the forums!

Thanks for sharing the level pictures. It's always lovely to see new ways to use these old tilesets. Nice artwork! Every author has his own unique style.

With "WinLems", do you mean WinLems by Warren Gaylen (from 2007, which looks like it accepts .DAT files) or do you mean Lemmings for Windows 95 (whose directory is also called Winlemm)? It's a nastily similar name. I believe neither of these two games has active players here. From early 2025: Giga's topic about Warren Gaylen's WinLems

You can attach your levels. Or you can upload .DAT packs to Mindless's Lemmings Level Database.

-- Simon

In the file menu, is it possible to add an 'open recent' rolling menu with sometimes like the ten last levels worked on ?

All editors I use outside NL have this handy option, and I miss it here.

This sounds fine for a try.

Another suggestion for keeping or erasing replay may be to use the popup already existing when closing a level within the editor.
Instead of asking to save the level, ask if save level+replay, save level only, or save none.

Also is the auto_playtest folder inside the replay folder or in the main directory ? Inside replay folder would make things cleaner.

Finally on a side note I'm wondering where are the current replays stored ? When the playtest is done it simply disappear as far as I know.

OK, this has been implemented in:

NLCEPlayer commit 90681dd.
NLEditor commit c0e4617.

A directory called 'Auto_Playtest' is created when playtesting a level. The replay is saved with the Level ID as the title (because the level might not yet have a title, and the Level ID is one of the best ways to ensure a unique file name).

When subsequently playtesting the same level, if the replay is found within the 'Auto_Playtest' directory, it is loaded into the player.

The Editor has an option for 'Keep Playtest Replays'. If unchecked, the 'Auto_Playtest' folder is deleted when closing the Editor - otherwise, the directory (and any replays therein) is kept.

We'll give this one a test run in 1.1.3.

Quote from: Dullstar on March 06, 2026, 07:37:04 AMOf course, I'm sure these are intended to be guidelines and not hard rules, but I think this one has an interesting caveat: providing more skills than absolutely required will often allow more possible solutions (which makes the level easier), but if the excess skills don't actually open any new solutions, then it could potentially make things harder by obscuring which skills you're actually supposed to use.

Yes - and doing this can also contribute to the overall difficulty of later levels too, if the player has adjusted to "this pack makes use of decoy skills".

Lemmings Plus III intentionally does this with...

Reveals a key part of the solution for an early-Fierce level

...surplus bombers. It's very frequent for levels, including 100%-required levels, to give more bombers than are useful and/or the save requirement allows for. So when the player reaches Fierce 1, a 100%-required level that includes a bomber in the skillset, it's just doing this again, right? Wrong. The bomber is used in that level's solution to cancel a digger; the bombed lemming falls into an exit before he can explode, making 100% still possible.

It's a more well-known trick now, but only one other level had done something like this at the time, and that level didn't have the bomber exit, it just had the bomber fall some distance after digger-cancelling to explode elsewhere.