[?][CE] Running CE and NL 12.14 from the same directory

[WillLem]

Yes all works good if the CE is put in its own directory.

OK, I can confirm that running CE from a NL 12.14 directory results in checkmarks not being displayed in the level select menu. It turns out that it's because CE uses larger images (24 x 24 rather than 16 x 16) due to the treeview itself being larger (and having larger clickable areas). I forgot that I'd made this change, and it does result in the checkmarks not being visible if the assets don't match what's expected.

the text scrolling bar on the main at the bottom of the main page not displaying properly.

And yeah, this is due to the data\title.nxmi file being set up slightly differently to accomodate the CE menu graphics.

All in all, not sure if this idea of running CE from NL is that good. It looks like it leads to some conflicts and gives you some troubles.

I'd probably have to agree at this point. CE has been created with the sole purpose of being a UI upgrade, but it clearly needs to be able to load its own assets in order to achieve this goal.

It seems that the best thing to do would be to ask CE to check for a subdirectory (we could call it "assets-ce" or something) which contains all the CE-specific graphics, data files, etc required to run CE correctly. Mutual assets (levels, replays, music, etc) and NL-only graphics can be placed in the root directory as usual.

Then, when loading something, CE can check for "assets-ce" before checking the root directory. Anything that's found to be missing (Sleeper sprite) or different (title.nxmi, the checkmark .pngs) can be placed into "assets-ce". (Of course, running CE from its own directory will not require the CE assets folder).

That's something I can certainly look at for the release of 1.1 proper. It may be worth doing an RC-2 to check that it's definitely playing ball, if we decide to go ahead with this.


It does beg the question though... why would you want to run both programs? NeoLemmix CE literally is NeoLemmix12.14 with UI tweaks. The internal game is exactly the same by design, and that will never change. Most of the features that have been added in CE are optional, and those that aren't can be modded to some extent (the menu gfx, for instance).

With that said, I probably will go ahead and find some way of running CE assets from the NL directory. It should be done as cleanly and minimally as possible.