Re: Randomizing from a list of variables

[James C. W. <jfc...@ya...>]

Thanks! I'm afraid I don't know what an array is, however...Could you explain if possible?
 
Thanks,
 James

From: Urs Holzer <ur...@an...>
To: pip...@li...
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 6:11 AM
Subject: Re: Randomizing from a list of variables

Hi James

James C. Wilson wrote:
> I don't suppose there's a way to randomly reference a variable, is
> there? Suppose I had four sounds, each preloaded into a local
> variable, perhaps named "local sound_1", local sound_2", etc, and
> wanted to play one of them at random every six seconds? I can do this
> by loading straight from the hard drive, but I'd like to be able to do
> it via locals, if possible.

Put them into an array instead. Say, the first sound in sound[1], the 
second one in sound[2] and so on. Then generate a random number, like 
that:

rand = math.random[sound.maxn]

Then you can use sound[rand] to get the sound you want to play.

I hope this is what you need.

Greetings
Urs


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