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This subject is a bit off-band for the blog, but I figured it could also double as a status update. The first draft of the object After that, I'll probably go over the entire set and make everything a little bit more consistent, add a few more overlays here and there, etc. I'm currently aiming to get everything done early next month, so we'll see how that goes. I've also made up my mind about what the focus of my hack will be, so I can't wait to jump on that as well. It's going to be a lot of work up front, but I'm hoping the payoff is worth it. Anyway, time for a rant. As you may or may not be aware, SonLVL is programmed in C#. Due to this, the most powerful way of writing SonLVL object definitions is to just roll your own C# code against SonLVL's public API, which SonLVL then compiles on the fly by calling up the C# compiler at runtime. existing skill set certainly makes it easier on both sides. such, more often than not, several different properties are packed into the individual bits of the subtype byte. And therein lies the Let's take, for example, the Automatic Tunnel object. These are the high speed chutes found in Launch Base Zone and Lava Reef Zone. They have three properties, which are encoded into the subtype as follows: Here's the above information in graphical form, because humans love graphics:    Reverse     Launch     Path ID Alright, so now let's say I want to have a property box where the user can change the path ID, without affecting the other flags. Sounds easy enough. Just blank out the path ID bits already in the subtype, truncate the user value to five bits, and join the two together. So let's write that. cannot be as*igned to the variable subtype, which is of type byte. Oh right, the literals 0xE0 and 0x1F are of type int, so the AND returns int. The two resulting ints are then ORed together, so the entire expression is of type int, which cannot be as*igned to a There's actually no way to write a byte literal in C#; you are expected to cast the int literal to byte. The compiler will do the