Castle Paradox

[eldritch]

I need some aid with the random number function. I want to know if there is a way to determine the seed for it so one may get the results one desires say for... generating a random dungeon floor from a player's actions in game.
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[Setu_Firestorm]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, `cause I don't mess with this level of plotscripting much.

[Flamer]

that's probably what i'd do, if i was maing some kind of random map generating script.
if it's something to do with a complete modification of the entire map, then good luck with finding the help coz it all depends on so many factors it's just not worth the effort...
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[Setu_Firestorm]

Well, in all-else-fails cases, here's Moogle's script for a random map generator.
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[Cube]

There's a command to reseed the random generator in plotscr.hsd that isn't documented in the dictionary:

108,seedrandom,1,0 #? reseed the random number generator

So basically, it's "seedrandom(seed)". I actually don't know how seeds work, since.... I've never really looked into it . But anyhow, maybe that's what you want.

[planethunter]

I think it's just a command to reset the original value of a variable to it's original value. Here's what I mean...

script, resetingvalues, begin,

variable (x,y,dir,loop,time)
x:= herox(me)
y:=heroy(me)
dir:=random(0,3)
time:=random(2,6)

for (loop,0,01)
do(
wait (time)
create npc (1,x,y,dir)
reseed
)
)

instead of using the ":=" command to reset dir and time to random values again, the reseed command will set new values for them.

I haven't tested this script, but it should work...
As far as I know an script buffer overflow will eventually happen anyway since all those npcs being created 'til infintity is bound to cause trouble
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[TMC]

No, that's not right-

This is what the reseed function would do (if it does work, that is): It reseeds the random number generator, effecting the numbers that random will produce. Normally, the random number generator is automatically seeded with the number of second since midnight (that's the practise with QBasic programs at least), which would be a perfectly random number in itself. The rand generator will always produce the same sequences of numbers from the same seed and limits.

What this means is that if you reseed the random function at the beginning of your script with the same number, you will always get the same numbers out of random.

So in

[eldritch]

Thank you very much, and yes, I need the seed to make it so that certain choices will always result in the same 'thing' being created within a random generation function I am making.
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"Semper Fideles means 'we eat our dead.'"
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[Mr B]

Yay! More undocumented tidbits... *drool* I've gotta write that down somewhere.