Golems v2.0-preview7

There are now keys for leftward/rightward selection (A and F by default) and a key for abandoning the level (Delete by default; basically the same as pressing Escape in DOS).  There are also some minor bug fixes and performance improvements.

Quote from: IchoTolot on January 27, 2026, 05:55:43 PMLooked inside the folder and I can maybe see somebody wanting to swap the highliter or countdown.

Yes, this stuff should remain visible and editable. We'd only bake in the physics masks.

Quote from: Simon on January 27, 2026, 07:38:46 PMAllow editing the file, but checksum on load and warn nonintrusively on mismatch.

Good suggestion, but hard pass. For this, I'd rather just commit one way or the other.

Quote from: IchoTolot on January 27, 2026, 09:01:34 PMI do not have a strong opinion about it, when you wanna hide them for CE, do it. I just remembered why we actually went away from the big exe blob and I feel like that could be a frist step back to it.

I doubt we'd ever go back to a fully-loaded .exe. Certainly not whilst I've got anything to do with it. It's clear that users want to be able to mod their copies, and we should continue to support that.

Quote from: Simon on January 27, 2026, 07:38:46 PMIcho's position is interesting. What do you think about externalizing even more physics?

Important question. If we want to allow users to potentially play with the physics, why not splat height? Builder/Stacker/Platformer brick width? Lem walking speed? etc... If the intention is to allow users access to the physics for modding, where do we stop? If we'd rather not allow access for the sake of simplicity, then the gfx/mask files shouldn't exist in the directory.

Quote from: weirdybeardy on January 27, 2026, 02:25:36 PMThese look brilliant. I'm really looking forward to playing them.

I can feel another Lemmings binge coming on... I feel it in me waters...

I'm also looking forward to playing the new Tomato Watcher levels, and playtest them if he still needs some testers.
Moderate difficulty is definitely my cup of tea from time to time, especially considering I'm stuck on Fiat Lems! and Quest From Kieran at the moment.

btw weirdybeardy I had a lot of fun playing your pack recently. I made a 16 levels pack myself with the twist mechanic of "you can only save one lemming", see my sig. Feel free to try it for a short binge to get back to Lemmings !

Quote from: Guigui on January 27, 2026, 10:42:10 PMIt looks like I launched this whole idea of booting CE from the same directory as NL, so I'm giving my vague 2 cents here : either solution 2) or 4) sound fine to me.

Agreed. I'll probably go with 4. It's a bit more work for a lot more benefit.

Quote from: Guigui on January 27, 2026, 10:42:10 PMI'm just an end user who likes to keep things kind of tidy on my machine.

This actually makes you the perfect person to provide feedback, and I'm very grateful for it!

It looks like I launched this whole idea of booting CE from the same directory as NL, so I'm giving my vague 2 cents here : either solution 2) or 4) sound fine to me.

1) could indeed turn CE things hard to locate, and 3) does not allow modifications (which I already did for some tiny things in the CE).

Please note that I am not a programmer at all so I may not understand all arguments when they become complicated like here, I'm just an end user who likes to keep things kind of tidy on my machine.

Version 2.7 hotfix update

N.B. If you're on 2.5 or earlier, please get this update.

Following very quickly on from 2.6, some replay loading bugfixes and a hotfix for the Editor.

Replay Loading Bugfixes

• If the exact pack, rating and level can't be determined, we fallback to search by level name only. This should help to avoid a lot of false negatives when loading replays.

• When checking for compatibility, if a replay is determined as 'possibly incompatible', we now avoid the annoying popup and simply show compatibility info in the window caption. This way, if a replay actually is incompatible for any reason, we can ask users to check the compatibility info in the window caption (which is visible at all times) and this should help to diagnose the issue.

• Compatibility checking now tracks the last physics update. At the time of writing this, that's version 2.6 (which should at this point be considered the last major update).

RetroLemmini Editor 1.1.1

• The (brand new!) level editor has had a small update to better handle styles loading errors.

A reminder of what's new as of 2.6.

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Get the latest version here.

Quote from: Simon on January 27, 2026, 09:11:48 PMC) More control over entrance hatches is interesting. I feel that the existing system is too simplistic: Round-robin across all hatches from the same initial count of lix.

I definitely feel as if being able to adjust the ratio of initial Lix for each hatch would be a good, low-hanging fruit-type suggestion which could maybe be added within the next few updates . I'm surprised no one has thought of it already honestly.

I'm not sure either whether wheel-up or wheel-down is better for rewinding. Option is sensible.

I think it's correct to continue offering one-shot LCtrl, RCtrl, LShift, ... If it clashes with that rewind, so be it. I assume the wheel-rewind will eventually be optional altogether (not merely which direction, but whether the wheel rewinds at all).

No idea yet for how to reconcile the feature with the remaining hotkey mappings.

-- Simon

Version 1.1.1 hotfix

Our first hotfix for the Editor!

Bugfix

• If the styles cannot be loaded for any reason, an error message is shown and the Editor closes.

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Welcome!

Happy to see Lix working well on Fedora, and that you aren't running into any problems even with your grand level designs.

None of A, B, C are possible in Lix 0.10. Silken has already explained it well while I was typing, but I'll post the full answer nonetheless.

A) I have no satisfactory explanation for why there is no upwards digging. The best argument is historical. I reimplemented the 8 skills from Lemmings 1 and then a few things from Lemmings 2, and that is it so far.

B) Splat height is fixed. Even a fixed height is hard to eyeball. It needs the splat ruler in play, and I still have an open bug report for how the editor lacks the splat ruler. It's the nastiest part of running physics mentally, and I'd prefer not to exacerbate.

What exactly do you want to do with adjustable splat height? Do you need falls survivable in specific places? You can catch lix at the bottom of a long fall with steam (the white steam clouds, or the blue transportation beam, both are in the traps dialog) and it resets the lix' fall distance.

C) More control over entrance hatches is interesting. I feel that the existing system is too simplistic: Round-robin across all hatches from the same initial count of lix. At the very least, it should become possible to place a single lix into a level outside of the existing round-robin.

You can already have different shirt colors by making multiplayer levels. You can run them in singleplayer, you control every team. You can't make puzzles in this way (multiplayer levels don't have a goal number of lix to save), but you can still make pretty paths.

-- Simon